Letter from the program leadership

Dear Potential Applicant,

Welcome to the Department of Dermatology at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC). Our residency program is focused on providing our residents with a curriculum that allows them to develop mastery of knowledge and skills to be an outstanding dermatologists and leaders.

Our program focuses on delivering clinical excellence to a diverse and complex patient population, examining and improving care delivery and promoting innovation and scholarship through research. We also have an unrelenting commitment to developing and maintaining a culture of positivity, diversity, inclusion and collaboration for our Tufts MC dermatology family.

Our program partners with Boston Children's Hospital, the VA, and community affiliates to provide a wide range of exposure from academic to community practice interests to prepare our trainees for any future they wish to pursue.

Excellence in dermatology training

The Tufts MC Department of Dermatology formed its independent residency training program in April 2008. Our program is ACGME accredited for 15 resident positions. We will participate in the upcoming NRMP Match for 5 positions starting July 2025.

We believe that there is no better setting to learn about all aspects of dermatology. Our faculty members are leaders in their field and many are nationally and internationally recognized. The department's strong focus on clinical research allows residents and fellows opportunities for publication while exposing them to new and investigational therapies that may not be available elsewhere. We take our roles as mentors seriously and do everything we can to provide you with the best educational experience possible.

Our program has many strengths including:

• High patient volume
• Patient diversity (Asian, African American, Caucasian, Indian, Hispanic)
• Specialty clinics in infectious disease, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, connective tissue disease, blistering diseases, high-risk skin cancer, allergic contact dermatitis and patch testing, pediatric dermatology, cutaneous manifestations of chemotherapy, hair clinic and laser and cosmetics
• On-site photodynamic therapy, phototherapy and an infusion center
• Board-certified subspecialists in micrographic dermatologic surgery, pediatric dermatology and dermatopathology
• Clinical research fellowships
• National and international recognition for clinical research in alopecia areata, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, hidradenitis suppurativa, vitiligo and discoid lupus
• Affiliation with the Boston VA Medical Center (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury), Boston Children's Hospital 
• It is located in downtown Boston and within walking distance of abundant ethnic cuisine, fine dining and theaters

To apply to our residency program and get more information about our training opportunities, visit how to apply.

We offer dentistry training through the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.

For more information on residencies or fellowships, please contact Maria Papageorge, DMD, MS, Chairman, Oral Surgery, at 617.636.6828.

We are looking for clinicians who have an interest in pursuing a career in academic medicine and who have good analytic skills. We are located at Tufts Medical Center, the principal teaching hospital for the Tufts University School of Medicine in downtown Boston. Candidates must arrange their own funding.

The fellowship consists of one to three years of postdoctoral research training in clinical informatics, clinical decision analysis, cost- effectiveness (especially pharmaco-economics) and health policy analysis, guideline development, clinical decision support, clinical cognition and clinical reasoning and telemedicine.

Depending on funding, fellows can take formal courses at local institutions such as Tufts University, Boston University, MIT and Harvard as part of the program. Trainees are strongly encouraged to develop independent projects in informatics, pharmaco-economics or decision theory, which lead to publications and presentations at national meetings.

Overview

We provide our residents and fellows with exceptional experience and the tools that they need to become leaders in cardiovascular care. 

Please view our cardiovascular training opportunities below:

Treatment options for Advanced Heart Failure (AHF) are increasing in number and complexity and now include devices delivered surgically, through the skin, or as part of hybrid procedures involving both cardiac surgeons and interventional cardiologists. Currently, interventional cardiology training does not include training in AHF. For the majority of interventional cardiologists, AHF training is not required. However, for a growing number of interventional cardiologists, an additional year of in-depth training in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology (AHFTC) will provide the knowledge to make optimal decisions for patients with AHF who are being considered for drug or device therapy and be dual board eligible.

The group of interventional heart failure specialists will be uniquely positioned to evaluate and implement emerging drug- and device-based therapies for the management of all subtypes of heart failure, including heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), valvular heart failure, right ventricular failure, pulmonary hypertension, cardiorenal syndrome, acute decompensated HF, cardiogenic shock and complication associated with left ventricular assist devices.

The Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC) Interventional Cardiology Fellowship is an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited program.

The program trains fellows on the proper indications and techniques for a wide variety of interventional cardiovascular procedures. Fellows will also learn peripheral vascular and structural heart disease procedures in addition to coronary interventions.

Education and research are also major components of the fellowship. Lectures and other interactive educational opportunities complement the hands-on clinical training. Our three state-of-the-art laboratories dedicated to interventional cardiology provide the resources necessary to conduct cutting-edge research.

The fellowship year consists of inpatient and outpatient care for patients with advanced heart failure and clinical research. Fellows will be exposed to pre- and post-transplant issues, mechanical ventricular assist devices, endomyocardial biopsies, novel drug therapies and innovative patient care. This fellowship program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Service at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC) consists of 5 staff cardiologists and several nurses dedicated to caring for these medically complex patients in a tertiary, referral-based setting. In recent years, Tufts MC has become one of New England's highest volume transplant centers, accompanied by a substantial growth in mechanical assist devices. Our Cardiomyopathy Center, a 14-bed intermediate care unit, is dedicated to highly specialized nursing care for advanced heart failure, heart transplant and ventricular assist device patients. A regional referral network also allows for collaboration among local heart failure specialists.

This 1-year advanced cardiology fellowship program has a more than 25-year history of training highly qualified cardiovascular fellows in a challenging and competitive setting.

During their time at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC), fellows are exposed to a wide range of inpatient and outpatient electrophysiology patients, including the evaluation and management of complex cardiac rhythm disturbances, evaluation and implantation of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) and catheter ablations.

The advanced fellowship program prepares trainees for careers in academic medicine or private practice with a heavy emphasis on research and teaching. Clinical cardiac electrophysiology (CCEP) fellows are expected to be involved in teaching house staff, medical students and cardiology fellows in addition to actively engaging in the intramural educational curriculum.

The Tufts Medical Center Thoracic Surgery Residency Program is an ACGME-accredited two-year training program.  The Program accepts individuals who have completed an ACGME-accredited, or equivalent, residency in Surgery.  There are three residents in the Program at any given time, as the number of residents appointed alternates between one and two residents every year.  Program leadership consists of Program Director Dr. Lawrence Lee, Associate Program Director Dr. Rona Spector, and Program Coordinator Kristi Frank.  There is a significant emphasis on resident education across all aspects of the Program with faculty dedicated to teaching and mentoring each trainee on an individual level. 

The Thoracic Surgery Resident is exposed to all aspects of adult cardiac, general thoracic, and congenital cardiothoracic surgery.  Training rotation sites include Tufts Medical Center, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, and Boston Children’s Hospital.  There is progressive autotomy in clinical and surgical decision making based on the Resident’s demonstrated competencies and abilities.

The broad based clinical experience is supplemented by a robust educational curriculum, including weekly didactic conferences, surgical skills simulation sessions, and mock oral examinations.  Trainees are expected to actively engage and prepare for all educational sessions.

Our Program aims to train and produce the future leaders of cardiothoracic surgery.  Upon completion of the residency, graduates are fully equipped to enter independent practice in either academic or non-academic settings or to pursue further subspecialty training in their chosen field.  Program alumni have gone on to successful careers in all areas of the United States.

The Division of Hematology/Oncology emphasizes clinical instruction and research training in an academic environment.

The principal training experience is a 3-year program that provides comprehensive training in benign and malignant hematology, hemostasis and thrombosis, advanced hematopoietic cellular therapies and solid tumor malignancies and prepares physicians for various careers. Graduates of the program have gone on to leadership positions in academic medicine, clinical practice, industry and health policy.

The program's first year is devoted to an immersive clinical experience in our outpatient hematology and oncology center. This includes long-term continuity clinics and shorter rotations across a broad range of sub-specialty areas in hematology and oncology. Taken together, first-year fellows participate in subspecialty clinic practices across the hematology and oncology spectrum, including benign and malignant hematology, breast, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecologic, head and neck, neurologic and thoracic oncology. During the first year, fellows also complete 2-month rotations at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. This rotation provides exposure to a community oncology practice in a multidisciplinary setting. 

The second and third years of the program include advanced inpatient rotations on stem cell transplant, consult and palliative care services. Still, the major focus is on an immersive research experience that complements the rigorous clinical training. The training program has always emphasized the importance of basic, translation and clinical research training and our fellows have generated a long track record of scientific publication and awards. One, half-day per week is reserved for the fellow's continuity clinic experience and additional subspecialty clinic options, including a nationally known program in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship. Elective time is reserved for additional clinical experience at the trainee's request and the program director's approval. An extensive learning curriculum delivered through a comprehensive conference series parallels the experiential clinical learning throughout all 3 fellowship years.

After the training program, fellows can sit for internal medicine subspecialty certification board exams in both hematology and medical oncology. Due to the combined nature of the training, most of our fellow graduates elect to become board-certified in both sub-specialties.