Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

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Type	Private medical school
Established	1767; 257 years ago (1767)
Parent institution	Columbia University
Endowment	$1.136 billion[1]
Dean	Katrina Armstrong
Academic staff	4,300
Students	Totals: 1,520 606 M.D. 94 M.D./Ph.D. 776 Ph.D.
Location	Manhattan , New York , United States 40°50′29″N 73°56′28″W / 40.841519°N 73.941139°W / 40.841519; -73.941139
Campus	Urban
Website	vagelos.columbia.edu/

The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (officially Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons)^[2] is the medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

Founded in 1767 by Samuel Bard as the medical department of King's College (now Columbia University), the College of Physicians and Surgeons was the first medical school in the Thirteen Colonies to award the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Beginning in 1993, the College of Physicians and Surgeons was also the first U.S. medical school to hold a white coat ceremony.^[3] Following a gift of $250 million from Roy and Diana Vagelos in 2017, the school became the first medical school in the nation to replace loans with scholarships for all students who qualify for financial aid when it did so in 2018.^[4]

Columbia is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Students additionally rotate through its affiliate hospitals: Harlem Hospital Center; Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT; and Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY.