The Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at U.S.C. offers a 3-year residency that fulfills the requirement for Board Certification in plastic surgery. The program is designed to introduce the resident to a comprehensive and highly detailed experience with faculty involvement throughout. The residency is three years in length and admits three residents per year. The program offers a mix of hands-on patient care, classroom lectures and discussion and laboratory study including cadaver dissections and microsurgery training.
Residents are responsible for all phases of patient care including diagnoses and treatment.
Direct faculty supervision is the norm. There are weekly conferences in hand surgery and general plastic surgery in addition to various additional teaching sessions in the individual hospitals. The operative experience is vast with particular emphasis on pediatric, microvascular, hand, posttraumatic and oncologic reconstruction. We are strong role models for the young physicians we train who will benefit from our knowledge, experience and willingness to continually improve ourselves. We are in the business of preserving and improving quality of human life and all our actions must be measured by our success and achieving this.