diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
index cc3bf696ee4c7..be2be9484adc5 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
@@ -464,3 +464,6 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 
 - Bug in ``DataFrame.boxplot`` where ``fontsize`` was not applied to the tick labels on both axes (:issue:`15108`)
+
+- Bug in ``resample().median()`` if duplicate column names were present (:issue:`14233`)
+
diff --git a/pandas/core/groupby.py b/pandas/core/groupby.py
index 3bbf248ece1d3..81f85d0ed623b 100644
--- a/pandas/core/groupby.py
+++ b/pandas/core/groupby.py
@@ -2203,7 +2203,6 @@ def agg_series(self, obj, func):
     # cython aggregation
 
     _cython_functions = copy.deepcopy(BaseGrouper._cython_functions)
-    _cython_functions['aggregate'].pop('median')
 
 
 class Grouping(object):
diff --git a/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py b/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py
index fbf0e0095a2f9..56953541265a6 100755
--- a/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py
+++ b/pandas/tseries/tests/test_resample.py
@@ -2931,6 +2931,20 @@ def test_consistency_with_window(self):
         self.assertEqual(result.index.nlevels, 2)
         tm.assert_index_equal(result.index.levels[0], expected)
 
+    def test_median_duplicate_columns(self):
+        # GH 14233
+
+        df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(20, 3),
+                          columns=list('aaa'),
+                          index=pd.date_range('2012-01-01',
+                                              periods=20, freq='s'))
+        df2 = df.copy()
+        df2.columns = ['a', 'b', 'c']
+        expected = df2.resample('5s').median()
+        result = df.resample('5s').median()
+        expected.columns = result.columns
+        assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
 
 class TestTimeGrouper(tm.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):