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2 unusual facts about College of Physicians and Surgeons


Abraham Myerson

He attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University for one year and then left for financial reasons.

George Hughes Kirby

Kirby served as a professor of psychiatry at several medical schools in New York: from 1914 to1919, he was Adjunct Professor of Mental Diseases at New York University and Bellevue Medical College; from 1917 to 1932, he was professor of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College; and from 1927 to 1932 he was professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.


Elisha Bartlett

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First university in the United States

King's College (now Columbia University) organized a medical faculty in 1767, and in 1769 became the first institution in the North American Colonies to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

George Suckley

He was born in New York City, and studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (today Columbia University), receiving an M.D. in 1851, and subsequently serving as surgeon at New York Hospital.

Livingston Farrand

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received an undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he earned his M.D. in 1891.

Otto Marburg

Arriving in New York, he joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology.

William James MacNeven

In 1807, he delivered a course of lectures on clinical medicine in the recently established College of Physicians and Surgeons.

William Samuel Booze

Afterwards attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine and graduated with a degree in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1882.


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David Newsome

A native of North Carolina, Newsome earned a B.A. from Duke University and an M.D. from The College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Two years later, Osborn took a special course of study in anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bellevue Medical School of New York under Dr. William H. Welch, and subsequently studied embryology under Thomas Huxley as well as Francis Maitland Balfour at Cambridge University, England.

Rat Park

Writer Lauren Slater, Alexander's daughter-in-law, interviewed psychiatrist Herbert Kleber, director of the substance-abuse division of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and a former U.S. deputy drug czar, on what was wrong with Rat Park.

Thomas J. Carew

In 1974, with the Kandel group, he moved to Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he became a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry.

Walter G. Alexander

He graduated in 1899 and then attended the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons (now Tufts University School of Medicine), receiving his M.D. in 1903.