The Graduate School of Medical Sciences was officially established in 1952 in New York City. Graduate studies in the biomedical sciences had been in existence at Cornell University Medical College for forty years prior to the graduate school's opening.  In 1912, in cooperation with the Graduate School of Cornell University at Ithaca, the medical college offered its first graduate curriculum that led to advanced degrees in the biomedical sciences.

Historical Timeline

The Cornell Medical Index (CMI) was created in 1949, with its purpose "to meet the need for an instrument suitable for collecting a large body of pertinent medical and psychiatric data at a minimal expenditure of the physician's time. It serves as a standardized medical history and as a guide to subsequent interview."

Learn about our policies regarding access, collection development, and the Cornell Medical Index.

Learn how to access historical patient records held in the archives, dating 1794 to 1934.

Explore archival records organized by creating institution or the format of the materials.

Browse and search all archival collection guides from the Medical Center Archives. Learn how to request onsite research appointments.

Explore digitized historical publications from NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine, and affiliated and predecessor institutions.

Search through a collection of photographs, ephemera, scrapbooks, and other material from the Archives.