This three-year program accepts four residents each year. All applicants must have at least one year of ACGME-approved graduate medical education. The staff of nine clinical dermatologists, four dermatopathologists, three dermatologic surgeons, eleven residents, one surgical fellow and two dermatopathology fellows handle an annual caseload of 38,000 outpatient visits and 700 hospital consultations.

The academic training includes daily conferences covering clinical images, formal lectures, book review, journal club, basic science, and lectures by subspecialists in other disciplines. Weekly lectures are held in dermatopathology and rotational time in dermatopathology consists of two weeks in the first year and five weeks in the second and third years. Residents receive formal training in dermatologic surgery, rotating two weeks in the first year and five weeks in second and third years.

Residents are encouraged to publish one article annually, to initiate and complete a clinical project during training, and to make presentations at departmental meetings, continuing medical education programs, and state and national dermatology meetings. Meeting allowances are available in accordance with Geisinger policy.

Call schedule
One resident and one staff physician take weekend call from home. Week night call (Monday-Thursday) is rotated among first- and second-year residents.