Nassau University Medical Center-Stony Brook University Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is an independent, three-year Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery residency sponsored by NUMC, a Long Island safety-net hospital, but built as a multi-institutional consortium spanning New York Plastic Surgical Group's large private academic practice, Northwell's Long Island Jewish/North Shore tertiary system, and Stony Brook Medicine's university hospitals. The training model deliberately blends public safety-net reconstructive and burn/trauma work at NUMC with high-volume ambulatory cosmetic and hand/breast surgery through the private group, plus head-and-neck microsurgery and craniofacial/cleft care at Northwell and Stony Brook, culminating in a chief year running services across all sites. The program explicitly states it selects for creativity, maturity, diversity of prerequisite training, and accomplished scholarly activity, and holds residents to a high standard of academic and clinical productivity while working with roughly 30 different attendings. Graduates go on to both private and academic plastic surgery practice, reflecting the program's dual identity as both a high-volume clinical training ground and a scholarship-oriented pipeline into either career path.