Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

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{{Infobox school
|Name=College of Physicians and Surgeons
|Image=MedicalSeal.jpg‎
|Established=1804 (1891)
|Dean=[[Lee Goldman]]
|Degrees=[[MD]]
|Enrollment=1,004 students (2005)
|Website=[http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/ps/ www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/ps]
}}

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

==History==

P&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]], 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.

==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)===
# [[Anesthesiology Department]]
# [[Biomedical Informatics Department]]
# [[Dermatology Department]]
# [[Medicine Department]] (very large department)
# [[Neurological Surgery Department]]
# [[Neurology Department]]
# [[Obstetrics and Gynecology Department]]
# [[Ophthalmology Department]]
# [[Orthopedic Surgery Department]]
# [[Otolaryngology Department]]
# [[Pediatrics Department]]
# [[Psychiatry Department]]
# [[Radiation Oncology Department]]
# [[Radiology Department]]
# [[Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine Department]]
# [[Surgery Department]]
# [[Systems Biology Department]]
# [[Urology Department]]

===Basic health sciences (182)===
# [[Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department]]
# [[Genetics and Development Department]]
# [[Microbiology and Immunoology Department]]
# [[Neuroscience Department]]
# [[Pathology and Cell Biology Department]]
# [[Pharmacology Department]]
# [[Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Department]]

[[Image:PSClassof1933.jpg|thumb|P&S Class of [[1933]]]]

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[[Category:College of Physicians and Surgeons]]

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