Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Baylor College of Medicine Temple Program

Program Identity & Fit

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple is a community-based, university-affiliated dermatology residency (four residents per year) embedded within Texas's largest not-for-profit health system, offering a high-volume skin cancer population that gives residents direct, primary-surgeon experience in Mohs surgery, grafts and flaps rather than a purely observational surgical curriculum. The program is set at a 640-bed Level I trauma teaching hospital, with a continuity clinic beginning in PGY2 and a call structure organized around week-long blocks and periodic inpatient consult months. Research is a required, structured component (one QI project and one annual publication submission expected) supported by protected time, assigned faculty mentorship and dedicated travel/presentation funding, indicating an expectation of scholarly output rather than pure electivity. The faculty roster shows strength in procedural/surgical dermatology (Mohs, dermatopathology) and includes pediatric dermatology expertise, and most current residents come from Texas medical schools, reflecting a program identity rooted in regional training pipelines and hands-on surgical volume within a mission-driven, not-for-profit system.