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Diplomas and certificates, 1949-1964, of Columbia University psychiatry professor Bernard Schoenberg.
History and Biography
Psychiatrist. Educated at Columbia (B.S., 1949; M.D., 1954). Schoenberg interned at Boston City Hospital, and then did residencies at Boston State Hospital, the Presbyterian Hospital in New York and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was trained in psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Schoenberg became Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia’s medical school, the College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) and Attending Psychiatrist at Presbyterian Hospital. Schoenberg was co-founder of the Foundation of Thanatology, the first organization in U.S. devoted to the study of the dying and medical education in the treatment of the dying patient. He received the P&S Distinguished Teacher Award in 1978. Schoenberg died April 25, 1979 in New York City.
Organization
Diplomas and certificates relating to Schoenberg’s education including his Columbia diplomas and certificates of internship and residency.
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Administrative Information
Unknown. Received before 1997.