Dermatology Residency Program

The Dermatology Residency Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a three-year program that offers excellent clinical training as well as extensive surgical and pathology exposure.

Residents rotate through four hospitals: Vanderbilt University Hospital, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, the Nashville VA Medical Center, (contiguous institutions located on a central campus), as well as Nashville General Hospital (outpatient only).

The goal of the Dermatology Residency Program is to produce dermatologists who are excellent clinicians, scientists, and leaders in the field of dermatology. Many of our graduates go on to pursue subspecialty fellowship training after graduation and choose to practice in either academic or private practice settings.  

Our program provides a stimulating intellectual environment. State-of-the-art clinical and basic science medicine is taught and practiced within a collegial atmosphere that fosters medical knowledge, scholarship, career-long learning, professionalism, compassion, and effective communication with patients and all members of the medical team and sensitivity to the needs of all patients.

Strengths of our program

  • Immersive clinical rotations in general dermatology, subspecialty dermatology, procedural dermatology and dermatopathology 
  • Faculty committed to education and research
  • Dermatopathology and procedural dermatology embedded within the department
  • Experience a patient population from throughout Tennessee and many surrounding states
  • Foundation in a quaternary care medical center with Burn Center
  • Volunteer experiences within the community
  • Opportunities to teach and mentor medical students
  • Emphasis on research with access to collaboration across departments

The VUMC Department of Dermatology 2025-2026 Residents are pictured above.