RESIDENCY

Dermatology is a three-year training program. The department currently supports three residents per year, for a total of nine residents. The residents are required to complete an initial year of residency training in general medicine, general surgery surgery, pediatrics, or a “transitional year” prior to beginning the dermatology residency.

During the dermatology residency, each resident is trained clinically in general adult dermatology, pediatric dermatology, dermatologic surgery (including Mohs surgery), laser surgery, and cosmetic dermatology. Residents are also trained in dermatopathology so that they can interpret skin biopsies under a microscope. Outside of clinics, the dermatology residents perform textbook and journal reviews and study pharmacology, dermatopathology, and the basic science of the skin.

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Ben Nichols (left) with his father, Peter Nichols (center, pathologist at USC), and wife, Kambridge (right, ENT resident at USC) at the Department of Dermatology Christmas Party.

Pigs Feet Surgery Workshop.

Sara Yazdi and Britt De Clerck at the department Holiday Party.

Associate program director, Dr. David Peng.

Mobolaji Opeola at Hudson Clinic.

Heather Downes in surgery clinic.

Dana Bae and Sara Yazdi work in the dermatology
library.

Ben Nichols uses the microscope during a Mohs surgery clinic.