Program Overview

Our dermatology residency program at Dartmouth trains residents to become superb medical and consultant dermatologists. Our 3 year curriculum emphasizes graduated clinical autonomy while maintaining a strong focus on academic study and research. Through collaboration with the faculty and research teams of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, a nationally recognized comprehensive cancer center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, and the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth, we support the development of academic and research oriented careers in dermatology.

Residents work in a variety of settings within our medical center.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is a 396-inpatient bed tertiary care hospital that runs at or near capacity every day of the year. Inpatient and outpatient visits at the DHMC Lebanon campus and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., total over 550,000 annually. The center provides care to a population base of 1.5 million people covering an area that reaches from NH and VT to ME, MA and NY. DHMC is the only teaching hospital in New Hampshire, and serves as a major tertiary-care referral site for northern New England. It is where our patients with acute dermatologic conditions are admitted and from where our busy consult service performs its inpatient consults.

The Veterans' Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vermont serves as a home away from home for second year residents. It is a 60-bed, referral Level 1 facility staffed by faculty of Dartmouth Medical School. It provides a full range of primary, secondary, and specialty care. Six months, divided into three-month blocks, of the resident's second year is spent here. The VA resident sees patients in a busy outpatient clinic, performs both inpatient and outpatient consultations, and performs daily procedures and weekly surgeries generated from these appointments.

Subspecialty clinics

The dermatology residents rotate and actively participate in the section's subspecialty clinics, including:

• Contact and Occupational Dermatology Clinic
• Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic
• Pediatric Dermatology Clinic
• Genodermatosis Clinic
• Mohs and General Dermatologic Surgery Clinics

Information technology

From DHMC's homegrown Computer Information System to the GUI system at the VA, housestaff will find this medical center on the forefront of technology. DHMC houses an on-site medical library which is linked to Dartmouth Medical School's libraries. There is access to a vast array of both print and online resources. Nearly all journals are available online. For the rare journal that is not immediately available, our librarians will obtain any requested book, journal or article usually in less than 24 hours. All residents are provided with their own laptop for use during the three years of the residency. High-speed Internet access is available throughout the entire hospital. Additionally, most hospital resources can also be accessed from home via a virtual private network (VPN) connection.

If you have any questions about our program, please feel free to contact our program coordinator, Elaine Danyew.