Columbia-Bassett Program

What to Expect

P&S and Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, NY, have established a track in which students experience their 18 month basic science curriculum at P&S and their clinical curriculum, including all core clinical rotations, at Bassett. This program, supervised by the Medical school, permits students interested in learning medicine in a rural environment, utilizing a longitudinal curriculum with an exposure to health care management, to obtain an MD degree.

• You will participate in a humanistic patient care experience, in a longitudinal curricular approach, during which you follow patients for about a year.

• You will work in an environment that emphasizes relationships.

• These longitudinal relationships will not only facilitate your education, but also provide an intimate view of the various subspecialists and their lives with patients.

• You will engage in a unique process to determine which career path within medicine is most interesting to you and most suitable to your innate skills.

• You will study the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. health system, and cultivate applied skills in improving health care quality at clinical and non-clinical levels.

• You will experience health education in the best of two worlds: New York City’s NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Cooperstown’s Bassett Healthcare. The contrasts of setting and patient population will merge for you into the single mission of learning to help people in their pursuit of health.

• You will receive financial aid independent of a financial needs assessment, in the amount of $30,000 per year, potentially freeing you to choose the career path you most like.

Applicants notified to appear for an interview should contact the P&S Admissions Office, or the Columbia-Bassett Program Office, identify their interest in this MD degree program, and establish interview dates at both campuses. Interviews on consecutive dates, and logistics attendant thereto, will be scheduled by the Columbia-Bassett Program office.

Columbia-Bassett applicants should submit all necessary materials by November 15 so that interviews for applicants selected may be scheduled as early as possible.

Applicants interested in the Columbia-Bassett program should reply to the question posed unique to this program.

For further information, please contact:

Dr. Henry Weil
Assistant Dean for Education at Bassett Healthcare, Columbia University
607 547 4742
henry.weil @bassett.org

Dr. Walter Franck
Senior Associate Dean for the Bassett Affiliation
607 547 6650
walter.franck@bassett.org

Ms. Lauren Connolly
Manager of Admissions
212 305 3595
psadmissions@columbia.edu