A Study on the Curriculum for Training of Plastic Surgery Residents

Ahn, Duck Sun

Abstract

The Korean Society of Plastic Surgeons was first founded in 1966 and the Plastic Surgery Specialist Examination was introduced in 1975. Ever since the foundation of the society and the introduction of the Specialist System there have been outstanding progress in Plastic Surgery. Recently, the number of general hospitals producing plastic surgeons has been increasing rapidly and there is a tendency that the capacity of plastic surgery residents recruited by each university hospital has also been growing fast. In spite of this rapid growth in quantity there appears the problem of risk in quality. There, therefore, should be a review on the curriculum for the training of plastic surgery residents in order to introduce future-oriented curriculum improvements in plastic surgery. I, hereby, would like to propose a direction for plastic surgery curriculum improvement by comparing the resident training curriculum of Korea to those of other countries in this paper.