CONTACT INFORMATION

Program Director

Dr. Lynne Robertson

CONTACT

Program Administrator

Tania Lafferty

HIGHLIGHTS

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Dermatology Residency Program at the U of C offers:

• An enthusiastic faculty that is committed to excellence in clinical medicine, research and medical education.


• A very collegial work environment that promotes inclusiveness, equity and transparency.

A comprehensive and flexible educational program in the field of dermatology that includes:

• Numerous opportunities for basic science and clinical research;


• Protected time to enable attendance at weekly dermatology academic half day sessions which include


• faculty led morphology rounds, dermatopathology sessions, didactic lectures and resident led patient viewing rounds and Bolognia chapter reviews;


• Weekly adult & pediatric medical grand rounds and biweekly dermatopathology multiheaded microscope rounds;


• Dermatopathology teaching from 6.5 FTE dermatopathologists working at a single site;


• Bimonthly surgical skills teaching labs using cadavers;


• Multidisciplinary and specialty clinics in cutaneous surgical oncology, cutaneous lymphoma, pediatric dermatology, transplant dermatology, autoimmune bullous diseases, vascular birthmarks, patch testing, pediatric rheumatology and cutaneous wounds;


• Funding support for conference travel in the core dermatology years as well as funding support for research presentations;


• Average weekly city-wide on-call of 1 in 8 for urgent hospital and community based dermatology consultations;


• Ratio of residents to faculty during core dermatology years of 1.5:1;


• Ample elective time allowing the candidate to choose rotations based on their career goals;


• The opportunity to pursue interprovincial and international electives.

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