Plastic Surgery Residency Curriculum

The integrated plastic surgery resident will spend more than six months on the plastic surgery service during each of the first two years and nine months during the third year. Residents will log a total of nearly 23 months on plastic surgery prior to the fourth year of residency.

Throughout the six years of residency training, exposure to plastic surgery is nearly five years (four years and 44 weeks). Off-service rotations complement the necessary plastic surgeon core knowledge base and mainly take place during the first two years of residency. Off-service rotations consist of surgical critical care, acute care surgery (trauma), burn surgery, oncologic surgery, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, pediatric surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, orthopaedic hand surgery, ENT head and neck surgery, and dermatology.

Residents' technical ability will be developed through an evolving curriculum of anatomic dissections and microsurgical training.  As a graduate of our curriculum, you will have thorough knowledge of plastic surgery, provide the highest quality of care to plastic surgery patients and families, and have the technical skills and confidence to perform the wide variety of plastic and reconstructive procedures.

An example of our current schedule:

In addition to extensive clinical experience, residents will participate in structured educational activities with faculty. Learning opportunities include:

• Weekly didactic sessions based on a two-year rotating curriculum and pre-operative conference where cases for the upcoming week are discussed with emphasis on procedural indications and operative plan development.
• Monthly didactic sessions include multidisciplinary hand conference, journal club, morbidity and mortality conference and resident case review.

Residents' technical ability will be developed through an evolving curriculum of anatomic dissections and microsurgical training.