University of Chicago Program

The Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Residency program at the University of Chicago Medicine is an accredited six-year integrated training program. Three residents are accepted each year from the NRMP match among a pool of talented fourth-year medical students and matriculate as PGY-1 residents into the training program.

Residents in the first three years of the program are assigned to various services across disciplines and subspecialties, emphasizing ablative surgery for cancer, trauma surgery/critical care, minimally invasive surgery, endocrine, thoracic, cardiac, and transplant surgery. They also engage in plastic and reconstructive surgery with rotations at offsite institutions, including NorthShore University HealthSystem.

During the latter three years, residents rotate through services and offsite rotations for experience in head/neck trauma and private cosmetic practice. The program follows a "focused-practice" model, providing exposure to different aspects of plastic surgery and individual faculty members' management styles, professionalism, and ethics.

The program accepts applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service and the Plastic Surgery Common Application. They have been approved for three residents per year and match all positions through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). Interviews are conducted in-person on the University of Chicago Medicine campus by invitation only.