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Four residents are accepted each year. Applicants are required to have completed at least one year of clinical training prior to the beginning of the program. Applicants who have completed prior residencies are encouraged to apply.
The program is clinically oriented and allows the residents to follow their assigned patients throughout the three years in a busy outpatient clinic.
We have also recently started an Infliximab Infusion Center in our clinic and we have a Hidradenitis Suppurativa specialty Clinic designation.
Inpatient ward service and hospital consultations under attending staff supervision provide training in the diagnosis and management of severely ill dermatological patients. Special emphasis is given to dermatological surgery, and dermatopathology. Lectures and conferences comprise part of the daily activities.
Medical Students
Medical Students who are currently enrolled in a U.S medical school and who are interested in completing an elective or rotation with Cook County Health Dermatology should email the items listed below to Richsha Buckles, Dermatology Program Coordinator, at [email protected].
Med Student Application – Affiliated
Med Student Application – Non-Affiliated
Applications open for rising M4 students on April 1, 2024. The deadline for applications is May 3, 2024. We will inform you by June 3, 2024 if you have been selected to join us.
This year we will offer a total of 16 positions between the months of August and November. We are unable to offer rotations to Foreign Graduates. We are currently planning to offer in person rotations, but this is contingent our institution’s COVID-19 protocols
As part of your rotation, you will work closely with the residents and faculty on some of the most confounding cases in Chicago. Positions will go quickly so be sure to submit your application as soon as possible.
Physicians who are actively enrolled in an accredited residency or fellowship program should contact the program coordinator to inquire about availability: We are unable to accommodate physicians who are not currently in a training program. Observerships are not allowed.
Positions Available
We have 6 positions available. We will fill all six positions through the NRMP (National Residency Matching Program).
Apply
We only accept applications submitted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
We require that all of the following information be submitted by our deadline:
Interviews
Interviews will be held in January. Applicants will be contacted in late November and into December regarding their status. Applicants selected for interview will be notified by telephone or email. Applicants selected as alternates and those not selected for interview will be notified by email only.
Timeline for Cook County Dermatology Virtual Interview Season: TBD
Additional Information
We do consider applications from candidates with prior residency training.
Prior to beginning dermatology training with our program, all residents must complete at least 12 months of clinical training in one of the following types of broad-based programs in the U.S. accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or a similar program in Canada accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada: a transitional year (formerly called flexible first postgraduate year), or a first year residency in emergency medicine, family medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, or preliminary year.
The mission of the Cook County Hospital Dermatology Residency Program is to produce excellent clinical dermatologists and leaders in the field of dermatology.
This is accomplished by providing an educational and analytical environment that encourages personal growth, teamwork, effective communication, compassion, state-of-the-art clinical care, sensitivity to the individual needs of patients, professionalism, collegiality, career-long learning, clinical curiosity, scholarship, and scientific inquiry.
Within this framework, the following specific educational objectives will be emphasized:
To accomplish these goals, a faculty dedicated to patient care, teaching, scholarship, research, and intellectual curiosity will provide the infrastructure for the resident learning experience. The resident will be expected to be self-motivated, responsive to guidance, willing to invest the time and effort necessary for self-learning, and fully dedicated to patient care and career-long education.
Welcome to the Cook County Health residency program.
Dermatology training at Cook County Health provides a unique experience. It is one of the few dermatology residency programs in the U.S. that operates in a safety-net hospital. Our patients are young, racially diverse, and in need of help, but seldom needy. The variety and complexity of conditions that our residents see and manage are immensely broad.
We see all patients, regardless of income, insurance and legal status. We are also the healthcare provider for Cook County Jail, the second-largest urban county jail in the United States.
A third of our patients do not speak English. Knowing Spanish is really helpful, though absolutely not required as we have easy access to interpreters for any needs that may arise. Most of our residents learn significant medical Spanish by the time they graduate.
The program at Cook County is distinctive in that all clinics are resident continuity clinics throughout the three years of training. Naturally, all of our 12 residents have attending supervision for every patient.
We have one main clinic location and a small weekly clinic at the nearby CORE Center, one of the largest HIV treatment centers in the U.S., with about 5000 patients seen annually. This geographic concentration creates a familiar and enjoyable work environment. Procedural training is complemented with a variety of lasers (PDL, Nd:YAG long and short pulsed, fractional Er:YAG, BBL, Excimer), and a weekly surgery clinic which includes Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery (Mohs).
Our dermatopathologist is in-house, and in-clinic, as well. Once a month, a psychiatrist and twice a month, a rheumatologist join us in clinic to see patients as an interdisciplinary team.
All full-time faculty provide inpatient consultation services to the John H. Stroger Hospital, which is adjacent to our clinic.
Successful candidates are those that like to work in a group, are cheerful, supportive, and open to a wide range of patients from a variety of social groups and spanning the spectrum of dermatological diseases. To work at Cook County Health, you have to be open minded and willing to care for and engage with our patients and their experiences. If you do, you will thoroughly enjoy the experience.
Joerg Albrecht, MD
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Third Year Residents (2021 – 2024)
Second Year Residents (2022 – 2025)
First Year Residents (2023 – 2026)
Future Residents (2024 – 2027)
Department Chair: Dr. Joerg Albrecht
Program Director: Dr. David Othman
Mohs Surgeon: Dr. Aleksander Krunic; Dr. David Othman
Dermatopathologist: Dr. Vesna Petronic-Rosic
Faculty: Dr. Benjamin Falck, Dr. Shilpa Mehta, Dr. Vesna Petronic-Rosic, Dr. Warren Piette
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