Our curriculum combines clinical experience with regular didactics, including weekly seminars, monthly meetings, and lectures from renowned visiting professors. Residents also engage in hands-on training through cadaver labs, clinical simulations, and microsurgery skills training, with opportunities to attend key regional and national meetings.
Regular didactics round out your clinical experience, including:
- A weekly seminar based on rotating curriculum.
- A monthly basic science seminar.
- A monthly journal club.
- Talks and cadaver labs with 4 to 6 nationally known visiting professors each year. Recent visiting experts include Drs. Joseph Losee, Gregory Borschel, Ming-Huei Cheng, Catherine Curtin, Lee Dellon, Julius Few, Richard Gelberman, Bahman Guyuron, Michelle James, Janice Lalikos, Susan Mackinnon, Babak Mehrara, Amy Moore, Salvatore Pacella, Andrea Pusic, Arash Momeni, Bauback Safa, Loren Schechter.
- A case presentation conference tied to the weekly seminar topics.
- A morbidity and mortality conference.
- An ethics conference.
- Dissection courses in the anatomy lab.
- Clinical simulation training in the accredited and expanding Clinical Simulation Center.
- Microsurgery skills training.
Residents also receive time and funding to attend regional and national meetings, including a maxillofacial surgery course, and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Scientific Meeting during their chief year.
- Cutaneous Oncology, Head & Neck, Wounds, Cosmetic at University Hospitals (Red): 1 month
- Breast Reconstruction, Microsurgery, Burn Reconstruction at University Hospitals (Blue): 1 month
- Cosmetic/Aesthetics (Silver): 2 months
- General Surgery - Hepatobiliary & Surgical Oncology (Gold): 1 month
- Hand & Microsurgery: 1 month
- Veterans Administration Vascular/General Surgery: 1 month
- Vascular Surgery: 1 month
- Acute Care Surgery: 1 month
- General Surgery - Transplant: 1 month
- Pediatric Surgery: 1 month
- General Surgery - Hepatobiliary & Surgical Oncology (Gold): 1 month
- Day Float: 2 months
- Hand & Microsurgery: 2 months
- Cosmetic/Aesthetics (Silver): 2 months
- St. Joseph Mercy Hospital: 2 months
- Acute Care Surgery (Trauma)/ECR (Emergency Consult Resident): 1 month
- Surgical Intensive Care Unit/Critical Care: 1 month
- Orthopaedics: 1 month
- Anesthesia: 1 month
- Day Float: 1 month
- Night Float: 2 months
- Cutaneous Oncology, Head & Neck, Wounds, Cosmetic at University Hospitals (Red): 1 month
- Cosmetic/Aesthetics (Silver): 1 month
- General Surgery - Hepatobiliary & Surgical Oncology (Gold): 1 month
- General Surgery - Surgical Oncology: 1 month
- St. Joseph Mercy Hospital: 1 month
- Head & Neck Oncology (ENT Blue): 1 month
- General/Laryngology/Facial Plastics/Rinology/Skull Base (ENT Maize): 1 month
- Trauma-Burn-Emergency: 1 month
- Veteran's Administration: 4 months
- Cutaneous Oncology, Head & Neck, Wounds, Cosmetic at University Hospitals (Red): 1 month
- Breast Reconstruction, Microsurgery, Burn Reconstruction at University Hospitals (Blue): 1 month
- Cosmetic/Aesthetics (Silver): 1 month
- St. Joseph Mercy Hospital: 2 months
- Night Float: 1 month
- Oculoplastic Surgery: 1 month
- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: 1 month
- Breast Reconstruction, Microsurgery, Burn Reconstruction at University Hospitals (Blue): 2 months
- Cutaneous Oncology, Head & Neck, Wounds, Cosmetic at University Hospitals (Red): 2 months
- Craniofacial (Gold): 2 months
- St. Joseph Mercy Hospital: 2 months
- Hand & Microsurgery: 3 months
- Elective: 1 month
- Cutaneous Oncology, Head & Neck, Wounds, Cosmetic at University Hospitals (Red): 4 months
- Breast Reconstruction, Microsurgery, Burn Reconstruction at University Hospitals (Blue): 4 months
- Craniofacial (Gold): 4 months
- Cosmetic/Aesthetics (Silver): 4 months
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