Columbia/Cornell/NYP
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Yeah I'm a med student working in a plastics lab at Cornell. I asked one of the students taking time off before applying for residency and she said it was an integrated program, which confused me because as you said the website says otherwise. I don't have any official confirmation of this but she would definitely be aware of the current state of the program.
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The Columbia website confused me too, but the Cornell website explains it as a 3+3 integrated program for both Cornell and Columbia tracks:
http://cornellsurgery.org/pro/training/plastic-surgery-residency.html
http://cornellsurgery.org/pro/training/plastic-surgery-residency.html
If you read the website, it says it is a "3 year Independent" program, which means that for M4s this is a combined program, not integrated.
Yeah, it's a little odd that if you do a google search for columbia plastic surgery residency, you will get this link: http://www.columbiasurgery.org/residency/plastics.html which states that the residency is a 4+2 program. If you look at the bottom left of the page it even has 2009 and 2010 deadlines so it does not appear to be out of date. But the above cornell link states that the program is a 3+3 combined program.
I suspect that this year the match is for a 4+2 combined curriculum but that starting next year the transitions will go to a 3+3 combined curriculum.
Best to e-mail the coordinator and ask.
I suspect that this year the match is for a 4+2 combined curriculum but that starting next year the transitions will go to a 3+3 combined curriculum.
Best to e-mail the coordinator and ask.
Sorry, yes, combined.
Well, if that's the consensus, it looks like the girl was wrong...
Hey guys, I interviewed there a few weeks ago so I hope this information is the most current. Columbia/Cornell is a 3+3 combined (not integrated) program. They accept 1 applicant into the 3 years of general surgery at Columbia, another 1 applicant into Cornell, and the program then officially combines in the PGY-4 (PS-1) year. At the PGY-4/PS-1 level they also accept an additional independent resident. So the class size from PGY-4 thru PGY-6 is 3 residents per class (9 total), whereas only 2 residents per year are in the combined program from PGY-1 to PGY-3 (6 total).
Hope that helps!
Hope that helps!
