Students in the VP&S Class of 2025 started their educational journeys on a campus still defined by the COVID pandemic. At the 2021 White Coat Ceremony, a rite of passage signifying each student's initiation into the medical profession, masks were required, and the event was held in the airy Armory with a limited number of family in attendance.
In the middle of their second year, medical students in the Class of 2025 marked their transition from classroom-based instruction to clinical education with the Steven Z. Miller Student Clinician's Ceremony.
All Columbia medical students complete a scholarly project and work with faculty mentors to explore an area of medical practice or conduct research with the aim of creating new knowledge. Students presented their work during the annual Student Research Day in the spring.
For medical students across the country, the real March madness is Match Day, when all students who've applied for a residency in the U.S. learn where they will continue their medical training. Among the 136 VP&S medical students who participated in this year's match, the most popular residency matches were internal medicine (19.1%), pediatrics (10.3%), neurology (9.6%), psychiatry (8.8%), and orthopedic surgery (8.8%).
