Education ProgramsRotations and Specialty Clinics
- Consult and inpatient service
- Four to eight weeks of consult rotation per year
- Resident Continuity Clinic
- Two half-days per week
- Dermatopathology
- Four to eight weeks of dedicated one-on-one dermatopathology sign-out per year
- VA Hospital Rotation
- University Clinic Rotation
- Surgery Rotation
- Mohs Surgery and other surgical procedures
- One thousand to two thousand procedures per year – also includes a significant number of grafts (Split or full) and flaps
- Three+ dermatologic surgeons – always one-on-one experience in surgical clinics
- Four to eight weeks of a dedicated surgical rotation each PGY year
- Additional surgical procedures include but are not limited to: TCA peel, Pulsed Dye Laser, Laser Hair Removal, photodynamic therapy, nail surgery, excision, shave, punch and excisional biopsy, botox for rhytides and hyperhidrosis (palms, soles, axilla), regional nerve blocks, wide margin excision, Mohs surgery (as above), full thickness and split thickness grafting, advanced reconstructions utilizing flaps, dermabrasion, non ablative resurfacing, subscission, scar revision, nail plate avulsion, and many others
- Nail surgery clinic at the VA hospital
- Mohs Surgery and other surgical procedures
- Cosmetics clinics and teaching sessions
- Elective
- Two to four weeks of elective in 2nd or 3rd year (electives outside of UCDMC are allowed)
- Specialty Clinics
- Psoriasis (Dr. Raychaudhuri)
- Pigmented lesions and melanoma (Dr. Burrall)
- Mucosal dermatology (Dr. Fazel)
- Vesiculobullous and collagen vascular diseases (Dr. Maverakis)
- Teledermatology (Dr. Armstrong, Dr. Ely)
- Pediatrics (Dr. Lamb)
- Cosmetics (Dr. Eisen)
- Mohs Surgery (Dr. Eisen, Dr. King)
- Wound healing and ulcers (Dr. Isseroff)
- Rheumatology/Allergy (Dr. Naguwa, Dr. Teuber)
- Quarterly Multidisciplinary Vascular Anomalies Clinic
- Phototherapy
- Photodynamic Therapy
- Research (not a required rotation)
- An additional year of research is optional, but not required. Research interests are:
- Rivkah Isseroff, MD – Wound healing and epithelial cell migration
- Fu-Tong Liu, MD, PhD – Mast cells, galectins
- Emanual Maverakis, MD – Autoreactive T cells in autoimmunity, immunotherapy
- Yoshikazu Takada, MD, PhD – Cell signaling and the Integrins
- Min Zhao, MD, PhD – Cell growth and wound healing
- William Murphy, MD, PhD – Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
- An additional year of research is optional, but not required. Research interests are:
Didactics
Equipment and other procedures
Medical Records
Vacation, Academic Conferences, and Moonlighting
