Welcome to the Department of Dermatology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Our faculty are focused on providing excellent patient care, creating a positive educational environment for our residents and medical students, and advancing dermatologic care through research, teaching and productively adding to the literature.
Dermatology has been at Dartmouth-Hitchcock since 1947. Our residency was founded in 1958. We became an independent Department in 2020 and we are excited about growing our specialty clinical services, expanding our residency training positions, and elevating our academic and research success moving forward.
Our Residency
Our learning and teaching structure provide a unique and stimulating learning environment early in residency. This evolves into graduated autonomy (with supervision) over the 3 years of training. It provides a platform to actively improve clinical skills with as much guidance and flexibility that residents need. The final product is a confident and knowledgeable dermatologist, ready to thrive in any clinical situation. Our residents leave our program, well-trained and ready to pursue a range of dermatologic opportunities, which include academic positions, additional fellowship training, as well as private practice.
Our Students
Geisel medical students are some of the best in the nation, and we have a structure in place to incorporate those students, with an interest in dermatology, early in their medical school career. Students have the ability to work with faculty, our dermatology residents, create their own projects, and ultimately publish academic papers before graduation. Our goal is to prepare them for whatever residency they choose, but also focus on a successful match into dermatology.
Our Faculty
Our Faculty are committed to providing excellent patient care as well as supervising and teaching our residents in their continuity clinic and specialty clinics. Moreover, we have a strong commitment to the success of our Geisel medical students
We have highly specialized multi-disciplinary clinics that create an environment of excellent patient care, teaching and learning, as well as unique academic pursuits. Our many specialty clinics continue to grow. These specialty areas include cutaneous lymphoma, high-risk skin cancer, pediatric dermatology, dermatology-rheumatology, Mohs surgery, laser and cosmetic procedures, hair disorders, patch testing, vascular anomalies, dermatology-psychiatry and vulvar dermatoses.
Academic Environment
Our academic environment is an expanding area with both clinical and basic science platforms. We have a robust clinical trials program, with ongoing studies utilizing new medications for a multitude of skin diseases including skin cancer, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and cutaneous lymphoma, to name a few. Our faculty lecture regionally, nationally and internationally. Our residents and students work closely with our faculty to publish, present posters and develop databases for studying and treating skin disease. This rich academic environment provides a 360- degree view of patient care, medical education, and academic pursuits.
Patient Care
Our core mission is to provide excellent patient care, both for our local community as well as our region, and beyond. We have a rich referral-based practice for complex outpatient dermatologic disease, as well as within our in-patient hospital setting. Our Mohs surgery and skin cancer program is of the highest quality and is expanding. Our specialty clinics provide clinical expertise that is not found within the region except at Dartmouth. Our clinical staff are engaged, excellent, and truly enjoy patient care. We work in a state-of-the art facility at Heater Road, which allows ease of parking and movement within the building.
We plan to continue to grow, improve patient care, expand specialty clinics, solve the mysteries of medicine, and as we have since 1958, train the next generation of physicians.
It is great to be a part of this team and Department, as it continues to rise!
M. Shane Chapman, MD, MBA
Professor and Inaugural Chair, Department of Dermatology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth