Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University-TJUH Program

Program Identity & Fit

Jefferson's Dermatology & Cutaneous Biology Residency is a small, academically selective university-based program (four positions per year) embedded in a tertiary/quaternary referral network spanning Center City Philadelphia, Delaware, and Southern New Jersey. The breadth of subspecialty infrastructure—dedicated Cutaneous Lymphoma, Psoriasis, Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Pigmented Lesion, Mohs, and Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris centers, plus collaboration with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center—signals a complex, specialty-heavy patient population rather than a general community dermatology practice. The program explicitly maintains a clinical track and a distinct research track, and applicants are selected in part on "scholarly and academic attributes," indicating that departmental research in molecular and cutaneous biology is a meaningful, structurally embedded component rather than an optional add-on. Rotation through pediatric dermatology (duPont Hospital for Children), inpatient consultation, cosmetics, and dermatopathology rounds out a training environment oriented toward comprehensive academic dermatology.