Rotation Schedule 2024-2025

Master Rotation Schedule

Residents will learn through a combination of independent reading, discussion and individual instruction. Discussion moves the learner from a passive to an active role that facilitates the acquisition of new knowledge. This type of active learning permits assessment of learner needs, allows learners to apply newly acquired knowledge and is most suitable for teaching higher order concepts, problem solving and clinical decision making.

 

Residents will be given learning objectives for each clinical rotation. They will be assigned relevant editions of Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery during each rotation. Residents will be responsible for completing the reading during the rotation and will compile a list of 10 questions from their reading for discussion with faculty during these months. Once an appointment is made with the attending physician, this time and date along with a copy of the questions should be e-mailed to Erica Luong.
 

  1. The expectation is that, in general, each site will provide one dedicated hour of one-on-one discussion each month. For sites with multiple Faculty, the site will assign topics and faculty.

  2. After several cycles of Faculty- Resident discussion, the Faculty will develop 6-10 Objectives for the each SR topics.

  3. The Coordinator and Program Director will provide an Assessment Tool and review the results.

Topics emphasized on each rotation:

  • Burns

    • Burn Critical Care

    • Principles of grafts

    • Wound healing, scars, envenomation

  • Kaiser Permanente Medical Center

    • General Reconstruction

    • Hand Surgery

    • Breast Surgery

    • Microvascular Reconstruction of the Head/Neck, Breast, and Extremities

    • Peripheral Nerve

    • Maxillofacial Trauma

    • Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery

    • Gender Affirming Surgery (including facial feminization surgery, top surgery, vaginoplasty, and phalloplasty)

  • Ambulatory (cosmetics)

    • Facial Cosmetic Surgery

    • Rhinoplasty

    • Body Contouring

    • Non-surgical treatments (neuromodulators, filler, laser)

  • CHLA

    • Vascular anomalies

    • Cleft palate/VPI

    • Pediatric Hand Surgery

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Hand

    • Hand Surgery (including full spectrum of joint surgery, arthroscopy, congenital, and elective hand)

    • Hand Trauma

    • Replantation

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Plastics

    • Microsurgical Reconstruction of the Extremities and Trunk

    • Breast Reconstruction

    • Gender Affirming Surgery (including top surgery and phalloplasty)

  • LAC Plastics

    • Extremity Reconstruction (including microsurgical reconstruction)

    • Breast Surgery

    • Facial Trauma

    • Trunk reconstruction

  • LAC/USC Hand

    • Hand Trauma

    • Hand Reconstruction (including microsurgical reconstruction)

    • Elective Hand

    • Replantation

  • Rancho

    • Pressure Sores/pelvic reconstruction

  • USC Keck Hospital

    • Microsurgery/replantation

    • Lower Extremity Reconstruction

    • Breast Reconstruction (including microsurgical reconstruction)

    • Body Contouring

    • Lymphedema Surgery

    • Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

  • General topics

    • Principles of flaps

    • Skin tumors

    • Facial nerve disorders

    • Rhinoplasty

    • Lasers in plastic surgery

    • Implantation/prosthetics

    • Principles of maxillofacial trauma

    • Brachial plexus injury