Columbia University Health Services

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Primary Care Medical Services (PCMS) provides comprehensive care for routine, urgent, and chronic medical needs for students. Primary Care also provides sexual health, reproductive, and gynecological services, LGBTQ health care, immunizations, and referrals. For more information go to Making Appointments.

Contraception and safer sex information and free condoms are available to students through Primary Care Medical Services. Women may obtain other methods of birth control, including emergency contraception, through their Primary Care provider. For more information go to Making Appointments.

Special Services for Women
Women’s health is an important service provided by PCMS.  High quality, individualized women’s care is provided by our staff of excellent primary care providers, all of whom are experienced in Women’s Health and considerate of the sensitive nature of the visit. Our providers are attuned to the sexual, psychosocial, gynecologic, and body image issues that are part of providing comprehensive women’s health care.

Some of the specific services provided are:

• well-woman annual examinations
• birth control
• emergency contraception
• pregnancy evaluations
• pregnancy options counseling
• referral for prenatal care
• referral for elective termination (abortion)
• testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections
• management of gynecologic problems. 

Strict standards of confidentiality are maintained.

For urgent concerns, you may ask to speak with one of the PCMS Registered Nurses on the Clinical Symptom Line. For more information go to Making Appointments.