Residency Program Director
Marjorie Montanez-Wiscovich M.D., Ph.D., FAAD
About the Residency Program
The University of Florida Department of Dermatology offers a 3-year residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Our dermatology residency training program is designed to give residents the scope and breadth of clinical training to make them experts in skin disease. They will acquire the medical and surgical skills required to diagnose and treat patients with dermatologic disorders. The clinical rotations are correlated with conferences and lectures to enhance the learning experience.
Integral to the ACGME milestone-based evaluations is a focus on identifiable and expected outcomes that show growth through training, and work toward developing skills needed for independent practice. Our residency fulfills these goals in various ways. First, residents have daily exposure to full-time faculty. Second, each faculty evaluates residents every 3 months. The program director discusses evaluations and performance with each resident semiannually. In addition, each resident chooses a faculty mentor and that mentor can then coach each resident towards achieving their goals. Third, we carefully craft a comprehensive didactic curriculum that cohesively compliments clinical practice experiences. Lastly, each PGY2 resident sits for the basic dermatology exam and each PGY3-4 completes the core exams. These tests help assess fund of knowledge in both the basic sciences and clinical dermatology as well as help measure medical decision-making skills.hin the structure of the milestones is a focus on identifiable and expected outcomes during the development of physicians in training. The dermatology program remains dedicated to it’s goals to education and train the next generation of dermatologists to the expectations of the ACGME and the communities in which they will practice.
Finally, each resident will sit for a mock dermatology board examination each year. This test examines their fund of knowledge in both the basic sciences and clinical dermatology. Scores are broken down into 4 different categories. Individual resident scores are compared to their PGY peer groups from across the country from other training programs.
Learn More
Our residency program is designed to provide training that will allow residents to achieve a high degree of expertise in clinical dermatology as well as teaching, research, and basic science.