University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences UAMS College of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

UAMS is the sole ACGME-accredited dermatology program in Arkansas, an academic, three-site training model spanning a tertiary/quaternary academic medical center (UAMS Medical Center), a high-volume VA hospital with resident-owned continuity clinics, and a major freestanding pediatric hospital (Arkansas Children's). The program is advanced (non-categorical), small (three residents per year), and structured around graduated procedural exposure in Mohs surgery and dermatopathology, with a mandatory longitudinal QI project and one protected month for clinical studies rather than a heavy basic-science research mandate. Its didactic architecture leans on chief-resident-led teaching, signaling explicit value on peer education and leadership development within a "close-knit" cohort, and it draws referral-based complex and rural cases from across the state alongside routine dermatologic volume. Career outcomes are broad and general-dermatology-leaning (including graduates pursuing rural/underserved practice, procedural dermatology, and academic dermatopathology), with research infrastructure present but not central to program identity.