• Education

• Our department tries to serve the educational accomplishment for the medical school student, resident and postgraduate school.

Medical school students

Our department started the 2-hour lecture in 1991 for the musculoskeletal course. Practical training for the medical school students was established in 1993 for the 4th grade. Thereafter, lecture for the 1st ~ 4th grade students was given from 1996 to 1999. Since the year 2000, lectures about wound healing, craniofacial anomaly, facial anatomy, reconstruction of the head and neck, breast reconstruction, reconstruction of the body and extremity were given to 2nd ~ 4th grade students. In 2008, lecture for the 1st grade was given in the musculoskeletal course, for the 2nd grade in the Neuromuscular system and head and neck course, for the 3rd grade in the clinical supplemental instructions, for the 4th grade in the 1 week period clinical practice training were given.

 

Postgraduate school students

In 1993, wound healing and congenital facial anomaly course were first set up for 3 credits. Thereafter, plastic surgery of the breast, facial palsy, reconstruction of the hand, reconstruction of the head and neck, endoscopic plastic surgery were added on the course. From 2003, topic related with the basic science such as the physiology of ischemic reperfusion injury of the flap was newly introduced. Until now, students entered into the master and doctor’s course and 66 of them took master’s degree and 27 of them took the doctorate.

 

Residency training program

Residency training began in 1990. The first residents were Hyung Bo Sim and Choon Shin Lee. In 1995, Yoon Gi Hong, first graduate of UUCM entered the department for the first time. Until 2023, total of 81 residents (Hyung Bo Sim, Choon Shin Lee, Hae Cheon Choi, Jung Hyung Park, Jong Han Cho, Joon Sung Kim, Chang Ki Sung, Ho Kyun Jung, Kun Ho Lee, Doo Young Oh, Yoon Gi Hong, Sang Jae Nam, Moon Soo Choi, Soo Wook Chae, Soo Chul Kim, Jin Sup Eom, Pyeung Jin Leem, Jae Jin Ock, June Kyu Kim, Seong Cheol Yu, Seung Ho Lee, Sang Min Lee, Jung Oh Kwon, Sang Tae Kim, Min Gu Kang, Sang Yub Yoon, Young Won Jung, Chul Won Bin, Min Hyuk Kang, Tae Gon Kim, In Soo Kirk, Hyun Woo Shin, Woo Ram Kim, Eun Key Kim, Sang Hyuk Lee, Hoon Kim, Hyun Suk Suh, Byung Soo Kang, Seong Uk Lee, Jeong Hak Yang, Moo Yeong Lee, Chang Hun Hwang, Kyu Nam Kim, Sang Hoon Sun, Tae Suk Oh, Kang Woo Lee, Min Young Lee, In Uk Jeong, Seong Jun Yang, Hyung Chul Lee, Woo Jin Heo, Sung Chan Kim, Taek Jin Jang, Hyung Joo Noh, Young Jin Park, Sang Sin Lee, Hee Jong Lee, Woo Shik Jeong, Sung Woo Park, Joo Suk Park, Ji Hong Lim, Dong Hoon Choi, Do Yeon Kim, Young Chul Seo, Sin Young Song, Young Chul Kim, Woo Yeon Han, Kyung Hyun Min, Yeon Hoon Lee, Hyung Hwa Jeong, Min Kyu Kang, Jin Geun Kwon, Hyung Bae Kim, Tae Min Oh, Dong Nyeok Jeon, Jeong Mok Cho, Jin Mi Choi, Seong Su Jeong, Joon Hur, Dae Won Hong) were qualified for the board certification and these specialists play an active role in the society of the plastic surgery. Recently the department runs the programs like following for the residency training; Review of journals, seminar, clinical case presentation in English, presentation of the reference materials, cadaver dissection. Through these ways, various clinical cases are shared and the experiences are enhanced. During the residency training, they have a chance to take part in the international academic conference and presenting the article so that they can compete with the foreign physicians in the namely globalization era. Recently, they have a chance to visit the overseas medical instute in 3rd year of residency for 2 weeks so that they can make a foundation of the microsurgical reconstruction of hand, head and neck. 

 

• Research

Since 1989, our department has published about 500 articles in the papers of Science Citation Index. Recently, Jong Woo Choi continue the research on the new materials for bone substitue. Joon Pio Hong studies on Lymphedema & Robotic prosthesis.