College of Physicians and Surgeons

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 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, and Physical Therapy.

Departments

Number of faculty listed in brackets.

Clinical health sciences departments (1667)

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

Basic health sciences (182)

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

P&S Class of 1933