Baylor College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

Baylor's dermatology residency is a university-based, four-resident-per-year program anchored in the Texas Medical Center, drawing clinical volume across three distinct populations: an underserved county-hospital base at Ben Taub, a heavy dermatologic-surgery and Mohs caseload at the DeBakey VA (which also hosts a Mohs fellowship), and a nationally ranked pediatric dermatology service at Texas Children's with vascular anomalies, phototherapy and laser subspecialty clinics. Surgical training is deliberately front-loaded, with weekly excision clinic and twice-weekly Mohs exposure beginning in PGY2, alongside monthly cosmetic workshops and dermatopathology conferences twice weekly. Clinical research is an institutional emphasis, run out of the Jamail Specialty Care Center with independent and pharmaceutical-sponsored funding, though the program's stated focus remains producing board-certified experts across medical, pediatric, surgical, cosmetic and dermatopathologic dermatology rather than an academic-only pipeline. The breadth of sites (safety-net, VA, children's hospital, private specialty practice) signals a program valuing residents comfortable moving fluidly between underserved primary dermatologic care and high-volume procedural/cosmetic subspecialty work.