New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia Campus Program

Program Identity & Fit

Columbia's dermatology residency is an explicitly academic, research-driven program embedded in a major university medical center, designed for physicians pursuing careers in academic dermatology and citing former residents who now hold faculty positions nationally. Training spans NYP/CUIMC-affiliated sites including the Herbert Irving Center, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Allen Pavilion, and the James J. Peters VA, with subspecialty exposure to dermatopathology, Mohs surgery, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, melanoma, transplant dermatology, vascular anomalies, and epidermolysis bullosa, plus an interdisciplinary cutaneous oncology tumor board linking dermatology to hematology-oncology, surgical oncology, and radiation oncology. A dedicated Pediatric Dermatology Track exists for pediatricians pursuing dual board certification, supported by a five-faculty pediatric dermatology division. Faculty maintain an active bench-to-bedside research enterprise (autoimmunity, skin cancer immunobiology, tissue engineering, genetics), and residents are expected to engage in scholarly activity alongside clinical training, reflecting a program that prizes intellectual rigor and academic trajectory over community-practice preparation.