Residents working with the Division of Maternal/Fetal Medicine spend nearly half of their rotation time on the busy obstetrical services at Grady and Crawford Long Hospitals, where they can expect to encounter every conceivable obstetrical complication. Residents completing this program will be thoroughly grounded in obstetrical practice.

A spacious new Labor and Delivery Suite and an Antepartum/Postpartum Unit where state-of-the-art technology and family-oriented obstetrics are utilized opened at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1993.

The Division of Maternal/Fetal Medicine teaches and provides for obstetrical care of both high-risk and normal gravidas. The first few of each new type of obstetrical procedure encountered by any resident (spontaneous delivery, episiotomy repair, forceps delivery, cesarean section, etc.) are supervised by an attending physician serving as first-assistant. A large, computerized database provides prenatal records, laboratory data, antepartum testing data, and obstetrical outcomes for patient care and for research.

There is a three-year fellowship in MFM supervised by faculty in the division. (SMFM Fellows Channel)