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An emergency medicine doctor interested in the genomics of deafness and a pediatrician who hopes to use new redox therapies are among the full-time faculty who joined VP&S in August 2023.
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A surgeon with a graduate degree in medical education and an emergency medicine physician with an interest in virtual reality research are among the new full-time faculty who joined VP&S in July 2023.
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Experts in disciplines ranging from anesthesiology to urology are among the new full-time faculty members who joined VP&S from January through June 2023.
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Incoming medical students at Columbia are assigned to one of six “houses,” each named after a Washington Heights thoroughfare, to cultivate community.
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Latest News
- August 23, 2021
At the annual White Coat Ceremony, 140 members of the VP&S Class of 2025 donned their first white coats and recited an Oath written by the class to mark the beginning of their medical education.
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- August 17, 2021
In a commentary published in JAMA, the deans of the Columbia and Cornell medical schools write that Asian Americans are underrepresented in the highest ranks of academic medicine.
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- August 16, 2021
The VP&S Class of 2025 has more students from underrepresented minority backgrounds than any medical school class in Columbia’s history.
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- August 10, 2021
Columbia medical students used to experience emergency medicine briefly during other rotations, but now the specialty has its own clerkship in the second year, earlier than most other schools.
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- August 2, 2021
Five VP&S alumni, including 20th century baby doctor “Dr. Spock,” participated in the Olympic games over the past century.
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- June 28, 2021
Psychiatrist Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford is helping medical students identify ways to disrupt racism in their lives and cope with racialized trauma.
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- June 17, 2021
The CUIMC deans invite everyone in the CUIMC community to observe the Juneteenth holiday as a time of reflection and resolve and help our nation move toward a more equitable society.
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- June 14, 2021
Watch a video performance created by current medical students for Columbia’s newest MD students in the VP&S Class of 2025 as an introduction to the medical campus and its surrounding neighborhood.
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- May 19, 2021
A virtual ceremony on May 19 honored 156 students who received MD degrees from VP&S and 37 students who received PhD degrees from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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- May 19, 2021
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the admission of women to medical school at Columbia.
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