You will be spending a lot of time in specialized clinics for dermatologic diseases, acquiring good amount of exposure to dermatosurgery, laser treatment, vitiligo, and allergen-specific immunotherapy.
In the Dermatosurgery clinic, you will experience about Mohs micrographic surgery, benign mass excision, autologous fat transplantation, thread lifting, and keloid and scar surgery.
Scar laser center located in Yonsei Cancer Center deals with a combination laser treatment for scar and keloid, cosmetic lasers, botulinum toxin and filler injection.
Vitiligo clinic encompasses suction blister epidermal graft, punch graft for vitiligo, excimer laser and phototherapy.
Atopic dermatitis clinic deals mainly about allergen-specific immunotherapy.
You will have opportunities to get involved in research activities. We have tremendous resources, including extensive procedural databases, statistics, and access to the medical library and e-journals.
With guidance of your faculty mentor, you will pursue short or long-term projects and submit abstract to domestic or international meetings. You will also be able to publish highly recognized surgical journals with the cooperation with faculties, Korean and international fellows.
Trainees will be able to participate in :
1. Annual meeting of the Korean Dermatological Association (Every April and October, 2 days)
2. Memorial Lecture of Professor Kung Sun Oh & The Cutaneous Biology Research Institute Symposium (Every September)
3. Literature review : Every 2nd and 4th Friday 7:30am
4. Histopathologic conference : Every 2nd and 4th Thursday 7:30am
5. Topic review and staff lecture : Every 3rd Thursday 7:30am
Physicians who train at Severance for 6 months or longer can gain more experience by participating in hands-on medical practice. The scope of hands-on medical practice is strictly regulated under the Korean Medical Law Article 27 paragraph (1) of the Medical Service Act and Article 18 subparagraph 2 of the Enforcement Rule of the same act. Every doctor who wants to get approval for medical hands-on practice has to officially apply for the permission of Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare through Severance Academy.
Please read carefully the following instructions :
(However, if the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Korea requests for revision or additional documents, the preparation period will not be counted as the 20-days reviewing period.)
Duration | Observation | Hands-on Practice | Research | Conference & Seminar |
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3 months | O | O | O | |
6 months | O | O | O | O |
1 year | O | O | O | O |
Hands-on Practice is allowed ONLY after the permission of Korea MOHW.
All activities and schedule are subject to change according to department schedule.