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Carolyn Ziemer, MD<\/a>
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Rachel Blasiak, MD<\/a>
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About the Program<\/h2>\n

From the Program Director:<\/em><\/h3>\n

Thank you for your interest in our residency training program. We are very proud of our trainees and their success during and beyond training.<\/p>\n

Our residency is a nationally accredited, three-year program, which meets all training requirements of the ACGME.\u00a0 We currently have funding and provide training for 18 residents. Prior to entry into our program, each trainee must have creditably completed at least one postgraduate year within an ACGME-approved program. Most of our residents have had one prior year in internal medicine, although additional years of training, or training in another approved field, such as pediatrics, have also occasionally been taken by some of our trainees prior to entering our residency program.<\/p>\n

As our overall goal, it is our intent that every graduate of our residency program will have acquired outstanding clinical skills, encompassing all major areas within the field of dermatology. In so doing, our graduates will then be able to successfully pursue any of several career paths, including clinical practice, fellowship training, industry or academic medicine. To accomplish this goal, each resident will be taught clinical dermatology through the evaluation and management of a large patient population, which is seen within a variety of outpatient and inpatient clinical settings, under the close supervision of our clinical teaching faculty, both in Chapel Hill and at affiliated hospitals and departmental clinics elsewhere. The latter currently include UNC Hospitals (Chapel Hill), Piedmont Health Services, and outpatient office settings at UNC Hospitals (Hillsborough), Southern Village, and Raleigh.<\/p>\n

This traditional approach to clinical training will be complemented by a series of weekly didactic lectures, conferences, and journal clubs, the contents of which comprise a curriculum which meets all recommended areas of study, as prescribed by the ACGME, to include dermatopathology. At present, this encompasses approximately 5 hours of didactic teaching per week, exclusive of one-on-one teaching within out clinics and on the wards.<\/p>\n

Training will be further supported and enhanced by the presence within our department of a number of federally funded research laboratories, clinical investigative programs, clinical trials unit, and active dermatopathology and immunodermatology service laboratories, each of which can provide additionally worthwhile educational experiences to our trainees.<\/p>\n

The success of our residency training program over many decades is reflected in (i) the high level of performance of our graduates on the certification examination of the American Board of Dermatology, (ii) the ability of our trainees to obtain fellowships (i.e., in dermatological surgery; dermatopathology; pediatric dermatology; immunodermatology; etc.) or research postdoctoral positions within other nationally acclaimed institutions, and (iii) the number of our graduates who have gone on to develop their own academic careers in clinical or investigative dermatology.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Carolyn Ziemer
\nAssociate Professor of Dermatology
\nResidency Program Director<\/p>\n

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