This three-year program accepts three residents each year. All applicants must have at least one year of ACGME-approved graduate medical education. The staff of six clinical dermatologists, three dermatopathologists, three dermatologic surgeons, eight residents, two surgical fellows and one dermatopathology fellow handle an annual caseload of 26,500 outpatient visits and 500 hospital consultations.

The academic training includes daily conferences covering clinical unknowns, formal lectures, book review, journal club, basic science, and lectures by subspecialists in other disciplines. Weekly lectures are held in dermatopathology and rotational time in dermatopathology consists of two weeks in the first year and five weeks in the second and third years. Residents receive formal training in dermatologic surgery, rotating two weeks in the first year and five weeks in second and third years.

Residents are encouraged to publish one article annually, to initiate and complete a clinical project during training, and to make presentations at departmental meetings, continuing medical education programs, and state and national dermatology meetings. Meeting allowances are available in accordance with Geisinger policy.
For more information: see Dermatology Residency Guidelines

Call schedule
One resident and one staff physician take weekend call from home. Week night call (Monday-Thursday) is rotated among first- and second-year residents.