Housing and Services
Housing
The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WCGS) offers affordable apartment housing to all full-time students for the PhD training period. Student housing is within a few blocks of classrooms and laboratories, in a neighborhood of residential buildings, shops and restaurants, and medical facilities on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
The Graduate School makes the housing assignments for its students, accommodating singles and families in studio, one-and two-bedroom apartments, or dormitory-style residences.
Student Health Service
The Weill Cornell Student Health Service (SHS) is committed to providing accessible, compassionate, cost-effective, and high-quality health care and education that meet the unique primary health care needs of students and enhances their personal growth and development.
Incoming WCGS students must submit completed health forms to SHS prior to starting their first term. The forms report the student's medical history, and provide proof of immunizations and a physical exam within the previous year. Information about these requirements, and the forms, are available on the SHS web site: http://shs.med.cornell.edu. SHS requests that forms be submitted 30 days prior to the start of classes.
All graduate students insured under the health insurance plan provided by the Graduate School may use SHS free of charge. SHS operates a campus student health center offering a full array of primary care, occupational medicine, and preventive health services for men and women, including physical examinations, chronic disease management, treatment of acute illness, routine gynecologic care and contraceptive management, immunizations, and management of body fluid exposures. A physician is on call by phone during off-hours for health emergencies. The Weill Medical College student mental health program is also available to graduate students.
SHS does not maintain its own laboratory facilities or a dispensary to provide prescription drugs. The graduate student health insurance plan provides partial payment for these services. Discussion of laboratory, pharmacy, and other service considerations and options (including mail order prescriptions) is available on the SHS web site.
Library Services
The Samuel J. Wood Library and the C.V. Starr Biomedical Information Center of Weill Cornell Medical College, is your primary source for knowledge-based information resources here at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Together with the libraries of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University, and Hospital for Special Surgery, they form a preeminent information resource core to facilitate your research and study.
The modern and comfortable WCMC Library houses over 190,000 volumes (print monographs and serials) and has more than 10,000 electronic journals, books and databases readily available to you here on campus. In addition, students with Weill Cornell computer network access can use virtually all of the Library's electronic resources remotely, anywhere in the world. The WCMC Library, together with Sloan-Kettering and Rockefeller, share "Tri-Cat," an online catalog listing published scholarly information resources available to all users. Note that Tri-Cat also includes most journal holdings from Special Surgery and all books available at the Weill Cornell Psychiatry Payne Whitney Westchester Library.
Learn more about the resources and services available at the WCMC Library on its web site: http://library.med.cornell.edu/.
Student and Faculty Club
The Student and Faculty Club, which graduate students may join at no cost, is a focal point for relaxed and casual meetings for professional staff, research fellows, and graduate students.
The club has a pool table and a large-screen HD television, ideal for watching major sporting events. WiFi is also available.
The club is located on the ground floor of the Sloan House building; entrance to the club is through the lobby of the Rockefeller Research Laboratories at 430 East 67th Street.
Click here to visit the Student and Faculty Club web site.
