Our teaching faculty are heavily involved in the teaching and leadership of our national societies. We have expertise in all areas of plastic and reconstructive surgery including some underrepresented areas such as gender-affirming surgery, head and neck reconstruction, and complex wrist. We also have a year-long senior resident cosmetic clinic with longitudinal exposure to all types of aesthetic surgery where residents see consults and operate independently with staff supervision and follow their cases until graduation.

We focus our instructional interventions and assessment on experiential learning prioritizing “doing” beyond “knowing”. We have fully adopted Competency By Design and have designed our clinical rotations to facilitate achievement of all required Entrustable Professional Activities. Surgery is distinct within medicine in that we are constantly required to perform fine motor skills which require many repetitions to be able to perform safely and independently. Our residency program provides an unparalleled operative experience allowing the residents ample opportunities to develop technical expertise. Excellent faculty to resident ratios and limited numbers of subspecialty fellows means that residents begin operating independently very early on. Site based home call with abundant access to daytime minor surgery facilitates a high volume of trauma cases without requiring overnight procedures for non-emergent cases.