NYU Grossman School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

NYU Grossman's Dermatology Residency is an academic, tertiary-referral program built on a distinctive tri-site rotational structure—Tisch Hospital, Bellevue (the nation's oldest public hospital with historic infectious-disease and HIV dermatology roots), and the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System—giving residents four-month blocks at each site with continuity clinic threaded throughout training. The breadth of subspecialty clinics (cutaneous lymphoma, connective tissue disease, Hansen's disease, forensic/prison health, skin of color, vulvar dermatology, phototherapy, laser, and dermatologic surgery) reflects a complex, high-acuity, publicly and federally insured patient mix alongside a private academic population. Research is deeply embedded via the Cutaneous Biology & Skin Disease Research Training Program, an NIH T32-supported physician-scientist pathway pairing dual-mentor teams for MD/PhD and postdoctoral trainees, signaling that the department actively cultivates academic dermatologists and translational investigators rather than treating research as optional. The department's mission statement explicitly ranks research advancement alongside clinical care and education, and the broader NYU research infrastructure (Vilcek Institute, Perlmutter Cancer Center affiliations) offers residents access to bench and translational collaborators beyond the department itself.