Schools for Plastic Surgeons

Harvard University Surgery Education Office

• Medical students completing their residency through Harvard University have the opportunity to take advantage of the Combined Plastic Surgery Residency Training Program. Residents rotate throughout five area hospitals: the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children's Hospital Boston, the Shriners Burns Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Attending surgeons teach residents the skills necessary to perform procedures such as wound healing, microsurgery, craniofacial abnormalities, reconstruction techniques and body contouring.

  In addition to classroom instruction, residents are required to complete at least one scholarly or research activity per year with their supervising surgeons. The program requires three years to complete.

  Harvard University
  Surgery Education Office
  75 Francis Street
  Boston, MA 02115
  617-732-6861
  plasticsurgeryresidency.hms.harvard.edu

University of California, Los Angeles

• The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) offers both a traditional residency program in plastic surgery and two fellowship programs for surgeons looking to continue their studies in the fields of craniofacial surgery and microvascular surgery. Residents learn skills in a wide variety of surgical options including: reconstruction, skin grafts, transferring tissue and cosmetic procedures.

  An added value of the UCLA resident program is the opportunity to practice in the resident clinic. The clinic allows patients to receive low-cost surgeries performed by residents under the direct supervision of attending physicians. Residents are only allowed to operate through the clinic in their final stages of residency.

  UCLA Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  200 UCLA Medical Plaza
  Suite 465
  Los Angeles, CA 90095
  800-825-2752
  plasticsurgery.ucla.edu

University of Florida

• The University of Florida Department of Surgery accepts one resident per year into its Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency program. Residents spend three years working with plastic surgeons, rotating between the Shands Hospital and the Gainesville Veterans Hospital. At times, out of area rotations are available for specific purposes. Training is provided in all areas of plastic surgery, including congenital abnormalities, facial trauma, laser procedures, treatment and reconstruction due to head and neck cancer and lower extremity defects.

  The plastic surgery residents and surgeons also work with the departments of orthopedics, oral surgery and otolaryngology. For three years residents are required to participate in at least one research project with attending surgeons per year.

  University of Florida
  Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  1600 SW Archer Road
  Gainesville FL 32612
  352-273-8670
  surgery.ufl.edu