Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Message from the Division Director
Residents spend nearly half of their rotation time working with the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine on the busy obstetrical services at Grady and Emory University Hospital Midtown, where they can expect to encounter every conceivable obstetrical complication. Residents completing this program will be thoroughly grounded in obstetrical practice.
Grady Memorial Hospital has a spacious Labor and Delivery Suite and an Antepartum/Postpartum Unit where state-of-the-art technology and family-oriented obstetrics are utilized.
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.
The division provides separate attendings for daily teaching rounds and in-house consultation on both the Antepartum Unit and the Labor and Delivery Unit at Grady Memorial Hospital. In addition, intrapartum care, perinatal mortality conferences, and an obstetrical endocrine seminar are presented.
Division members staff the Regional Perinatal Center at Grady Hospital, where thousands of ultrasound and electronic fetal monitoring tests each year provide data on fetal evaluation. The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division was one of the first specialty units in the country. Faculty practice at Grady Memorial Hospital and at Emory University Hospital Midtown of Emory University; they are members of the state-of-the-art Emory Regional Perinatal Center, the largest of only six regional high-risk infant care centers in the south.
Regards,
Michael K. Lindsay, MD, MPH
Luella Klein Associate Professor