The Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia Plastic Surgery Residency Program is a six-year program focused on producing well-rounded plastic surgeons knowledgeable in all aspects of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Video: Plastic surgery residency
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hello i'm carlos martinez i'm a second
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year plastic surgery resident here at
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prisma health
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hey my name is tariq majadzik i'm a
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first year plastic surgery resident here
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at prisma health
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here at prisma health they have a wide
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variety of specialties so we have hand
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surgery microsurgery
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head and neck reconstruction breast
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reconstruction cleft craniofacial
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aesthetics and all these are important
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parts of the truly integrated program
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and
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being here allows me to be fully
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immersed in those subspecialties
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and come out with a comprehensive
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education prisma health being a level
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one trauma center
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you do get a fair amount of trauma we
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get a lot of facial fractures we get
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extremity
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trauma that needs complex reconstruction
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and we have
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a certain level of collegiality here
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between specialties that deal with
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trauma patients and plastics is a big
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part of that the nice part about our
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program is that we have a very
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small faculty to resident ratio many
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times
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we are working individually with the
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attendings on these complex cases
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whether it's microsurgery whether it's
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cleft palate craniofacial whether it's
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hand surgery even aesthetic surgery
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real new residents obviously if there's
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like a larger case that's more involved
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there are more residents that come in
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but there are no fellows here there are
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no other people that you're trying to
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sort of compete
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with and the nice thing about our
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program is that since we're a close-knit
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group
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we know what each other needs to do and
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we have a nice respect for each other
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that says ah you follow this patient for
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a long time
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you get this case my name is ellia chen
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i've been here for 12 years i
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am the medical director of the cleft and
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cranial facial team
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we have a very close relationship
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between the attendings
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and the residents they work with us on a
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apprenticeship
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model where they work with us one-on-one
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they get to see us how we run clinic
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how we see patients afterwards and they
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see the pre-operative planning
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and how we would operate as they get a
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little bit more mature
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in their years they get to take over the
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reins more and be much more independent
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in the operating room
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with a lot of private guys working along
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with us it means that the residents get
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a lot of exposure to both the academic
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and the private world
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and also get to work hand-in-hand
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one-on-one with the private attendance
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as well this gives an opportunity to see
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how practices are built
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and how billing is done things that we
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can't teach them that well in the
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academic world
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in the six years here that you spend as
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a place three residents
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you really will be ready to be able to
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tackle any problem thrown at you as an
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attending once you get done here
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and even as an intern now finishing up
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my first year i feel like i've gotten so
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much experience
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columbia is a nice town you know it's
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small but it has a wide variety of
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people here
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the food is great i love going to coffee
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shops in the city
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living here the beach is only an hour
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away
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the mountains are only an hour away if i
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ever want to go to like charlotte or
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atlanta just for like a weekend i can
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it's so accessible the nice part is
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columbia is such a low cost of living
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i can have a really nice quality of life
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when i'm on plastics it's
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like every day is a new cool case to
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look forward to
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and you know you want to see the
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attending you're working with because
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you know they're gonna
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try to teach you something new they're
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gonna let you do a lot in operating room
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they're going to teach you about the
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patient how you tackle the problem and
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you feel like you're going to come out
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of it
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with something new something you're
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going to learn and how to be a better
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doctor
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residencies you i think you should go to
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some place that offers you the most
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experience to grow
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and you need to be given a fertile
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ground in which you can just really
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develop yourself
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i think it's important to be able to
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develop yourself in a lot of different
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ways you need to be able to operate well
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you have to be a good doctor you have to
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be able to be a good communicator
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in terms of being able to communicate
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really difficult information
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to patients and their families you have
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to be able to grow as a person
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and you need to understand both how
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business
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medicine artwork and science all come
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together for plastics
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our philosophy is that everybody should
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be able to do everything even though
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we're awesome specialists
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in our own particular field as a
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craniofacial surgeon
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i do all the complex face fractures but
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all of us can do face fractures
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i can do the hand surgeries but dr
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majadzik does
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the complicated ones and same thing for
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microsurgery stuck with dr killstraps
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practice and breast reconstructions
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so i expect that to see the same for the
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residents that they should all be able
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to do
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everything in the future maybe they
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won't like to sub-specialize
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in just one particular thing when you
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graduate here you'll do everything
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you
