Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, the future site of a new dermatology residency program in the
next few years, is seeking applicants past the 3rd year of medical school who are able to spend 12 months working full-time on projects related to
"academic dermatology" onsite in Los Angeles. No internship, clinical trials experience, or California state medical license is required (which are
required for over 95% of clinical research fellowships).
The project will be based on the paper below marked with **. The data for this original study also produced
4 smaller studies and 4 commentaries:
**Wu JJ, Ramirez CC, Alonso CA, Mendoza N, Berman B, Tyring SK. Dermatology residency program characteristics that correlate with graduates selecting an
academic dermatology career. Archives of Dermatology, July 2006;142(7):845-850. PMID: 16847199. (one of the most read
and sent articles in 2006-2008 per Archives of Dermatology)
*Wu JJ, Ramirez CC, Alonso CA, Berman B, Tyring SK. Ranking the dermatology programs based on measurements of academic achievement. Dermatology Online Journal,
July 2007;13(3):3. PMID: 18328197. http://dermatology.cdlib.org/133/original/academy/wu.html (first ever national rankings of dermatology
programs) (#3 on Top 10 Dermatology Journal Articles of 2007 for Medscape)
Wu JJ, Davis KF, Ramirez CC, Alonso CA, Berman B, Tyring SK. MD/PhDs are more likely than MDs to choose a career in academic dermatology. Dermatology Online
Journal, January 2008;14(1):27. PMID: 18319044.
Wu JJ, Hinchman KF, Ramirez CC, Alonso CA, Berman B, Tyring SK. Graduates of foreign dermatology residencies and military dermatology residencies and women in
academic dermatology. Dermatology Online Journal, 2009. In press.
Channual JC, Wu JJ. Dermatology Foundation Career Development Award winners are retained as full-time academicians. Cutis, 2009. In press.
Wu JJ. Observations on the ongoing shortage of academic dermatologists. Cutis, October 2006;78(4):229-230. PMID: 17121056.
Wu JJ. Academic dermatology. Archives of Dermatology, December 2006;142(12):1650-1651. PMID: 17178998.
Wu JJ. Current strategies to address the ongoing shortage of academic dermatologists. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, June
2007;56(6):1065-1066. PMID: 17504723.
Hinchman KF, Wu JJ. Decisions in choosing a career in academic dermatology. Cutis, November 2008; 82(5):368-371.
The data also produced 6 published poster abstracts and 1 poster. The new project will be based on 2008 data that needs
to be collected and analyzed. The potential papers and posters following this new primary paper would certainly help any residency application.
The Principal Investigator is Jashin (Jay) Wu, MD, who is the Founding Director of Clinical Research at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical
Center. He will eventually become the Residency Director as well. He has over 100 book chapters and Pubmed journal
articles published, in press, or submitted.
Please, no inquiries about the new residency program, as no official details are available yet.
** Update- the position has been filled, so please, no more inquiries about the fellowship.
