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The Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at the School of
Medicine offers a three year residency program leading to eligibility
for certification by the American Board of Dermatology. In addition,
fellowship programs in dermatologic research, dermatopathology,
dermatopharmacology, procedural dermatology, melanoma, and pediatric
dermatology and immunodermatology are available. Each year six residents
and an approximately equal number of fellows are appointed. Residents
are appointed following their first post-graduate year.
The Dermatology House Staff is organized into three separate teams
each led by a senior resident. All teams spend four months at each
of the Department's clinical facilities: Bellevue
Hospital Center, New York Harbor Health Care System, and Tisch
Hospital and the Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Pavilion.
During the first year, residents spend several months on the inpatient
unit at Bellevue Hospital Center, two weeks in the pathology laboratory,
two weeks in dermatologic surgery and the remainder in the outpatient
facilities of the Department. In the second year, residents spend
one to two months answering consultation requests and the remaining
time in the ambulatory care facilities. Second year residents also
have the option of pursuing clinical and laboratory research projects
as part of the elective program. In most instances, third year residents
spend two months answering consultations, two months in the histopathology
laboratory, and seven months in the outpatient facilities where
they participate in supervision of the first and second year residents.
Third year residents also have the option of pursuing clinical and
laboratory research projects. All residents are involved in teaching
nurses, medical students, and rotating house staff and are granted
appointments as Teaching Fellows at New York University in their
second year. Resident salaries vary from $49,192 for the first year
to $56,395 for the third year. In addition, substantial fringe benefits
and four weeks of vacation annually are provided.
For those trainees who are committed to careers in academic dermatology,
the Department has instituted a Marion B. Sulzberger Scholars Program,
named in memory of a former Departmental Chairman universally recognized
as a leader of American Academic Dermatology during a major portion
of the 20th century. Sulzberger Scholars may embark upon research
training in their third year of training in the research laboratories
of our Department or of other academic facilities in New York. During
their residencies, they combine continuing laboratory work with
clinical activities designed to prepare them appropriately for full-time
positions in academic departments. Trainees enter the Sulzberger
Scholar Program in the third year but in all cases the first and
second year of training involves at least 75% clinical activities.
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