The Dermatology Residency Program is a three-year program in which resident physicians beginning at the PGY-2 level receive training in the specialty of dermatology. At completion of their training, residents are qualified to sit for the American Board of Dermatology and provide dermatologic care. Our program now allows for eleven residents.
Diversity in Medicine and Dermatology
Graduate Medical Education in partnership with the College of Medicine is committed to developing programs that will promote the academic advancement and success of all trainees, faculty and staff; weaving and enhancing cultural and diversity instruction in our curriculum; breaking down racial and ethnic stereotypes and promoting cross-cultural understanding; and promoting multi-cultural scholarship. The College of Medicine diversity goals support the University culture in which diversity and academic excellence are seen as inter-dependent.
Our Mission is to:
Deliver compassionate, comprehensive, and ethical dermatologic care for patients.
- Promote academic excellence through inclusive dermatologic education for medical students, trainees, staff, and other healthcare disciplines in the State of Oklahoma and beyond.
- Foster scholarly inquiry and advance the field of dermatology through meaningful research.
Our Vision is to:
Leading dermatology through healing, teaching, and discovery.
Our Program Aims to:
1. Patient care and procedural skills
2. Interpersonal and communication skills
3. Medical knowledge
4. Practice-based learning and improvement
5. Professionalism
6. Systems-based practice
Patient care encompasses general and complex dermatology, dermatologic surgery, pediatric dermatology, cosmetic dermatology and dermatopathology. Services are provided in the departmental clinic, OUP Children's Hospital, OUMC and OKC VA hospital, including inpatient consultations. Our fulltime, part-time and volunteer faculty are strongly committed to the department’s mission.
- Provide an innovative and comprehensive curriculum in clinical dermatology and basic science to prepare graduates to provide compassionate and high-quality care to patients in their communities.
- Teach residents critical thinking skills to evaluate, integrate, and contribute to evidence-based medicine.
- Educate residents in the art of teaching, and mentorship to contribute to the development of students, peers, and other healthcare team members.
- To ensure proficiency in the six core competencies:
An annual educational stipend is provided, when available, to defray the costs associated with conferences and educational materials.
Residents rotate through specialty clinics on a semi-block schedule basis, allotting roughly 4 weeks in Cosmetics and Mohs surgery, as well as a Dermatopathology block. Each resident also spends time in VA transplant clinic, Cutaneous Lymphoma clinic and Complex Dermatology clinic, plus Skin of Color clinic during various times in training. There is also ample surgical exposure (non-Mohs) at weekly OU and VA minor surgery clinics. There is a monthly Pediatric Dermatology clinic staffed by Dr. Hillary Lawrence (only board-certified Pediatric Dermatologist in state).
Senior residents are provided with away rotation opportunities so they may enhance their dermatologic training. There are opportunities for external learning activities that our program cannot offer.
Residents actively participate as voting members on departmental and institutional committees.
Faculty and residents are engaged in teaching. Through participation and presentation in daily conferences, Grand Rounds, M&M Conferences, Morphologic Conferences, Surgical and Cosmetic Gems of the Week and Journal Clubs they are able to enhance their knowledge in the specialty. Such residents are expected to contribute to scholarly activity under the direction of faculty.
Each month, residents provide care to indigent patients by volunteering at the Crossings Community Free Clinic.