Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Established	1804 (1891)
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Dean	Lee Goldman
Degrees	MD
Enrollment	1,004 students (2005)
Website	www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/ps

The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (or VP&S) is Columbia's medical school. It is affiliated with NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.

History

Medical teaching at Columbia has an over 250 year history, although it is discontinuous.

VP&S is not Columbia's original medical school. King's College established a medical school and conferred the first MD in North America in 1770. The school was refounded in 1791 after Columbia was reopened after the war, but only lasted until 1813. The original dean of medicine left Columbia and founded the renegade College of Physicians and Surgeons, competition from which led to the trustees of Columbia to fold the med school. In 1860, what was then just P&S became Columbia's medical department and the President of Columbia signed the degrees. In 1891, with Columbia University rapidly on the rise, and P&S in financial trouble at the time, a formal merger was executed, bringing the schools full circle.

It was renamed following a 2017 gift by P. Roy Vagelos ’54 and Diana Vagelos.

Programs

P&S has programs in Medicine, Human Nutrition, Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy.

Departments

Number of faculty listed in brackets.

Clinical health sciences departments (1667)

1. Anesthesiology Department
2. Biomedical Informatics Department
3. Dermatology Department
4. Medicine Department (very large department)
5. Neurological Surgery Department
6. Neurology Department
7. Obstetrics and Gynecology Department
8. Ophthalmology Department
9. Orthopedic Surgery Department
10. Otolaryngology Department
11. Pediatrics Department
12. Psychiatry Department
13. Radiation Oncology Department
14. Radiology Department
15. Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine Department
16. Surgery Department
17. Systems Biology Department
18. Urology Department

Basic health sciences (182)

1. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department
2. Genetics and Development Department
3. Microbiology and Immunoology Department
4. Neuroscience Department
5. Pathology and Cell Biology Department
6. Pharmacology Department
7. Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Department

P&S Class of 1933