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The Emory University School of Medicine residency training program in gynecology and obstetrics began at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1926. Now officially known as the Gynecologic-Obstetric Integrated Residency Training Program of the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics, the program has been in continuous operation for 75 years and during this time has become one of the largest and most outstanding programs in the country. Our 100th resident completed the program in 1966, after the program had been in operation for 40 years. Our 453rd resident finished the program in 2003. Our former residents have settled in communities throughout the nation. Most are in private practice in the southeast, and many hold full-time academic positions.
Of all the numerous activities of our department, next to caring for patients, we consider our residency training program to be the most important. We hope that our descriptions of the present organization, philosophy, breadth, and depth of activities in our program will be useful to potential candidates who might be considering residency training with our gynecology and obstetrics department. The senior student who is applying for residency training may not be aware of how differently the learning process is conducted on a resident level. Early in medical school the student knows so little that the most efficient way to supply him/her with large amounts of factual knowledge in a short period of time is by use of the lecture format and the controlled laboratory demonstration. As the student progresses toward the senior year the rate at which new knowledge is acquired slows appreciably. Controlled experiments are no longer used in the educational program and the lecture format, though still useful and still used extensively, is less appropriate. Clinical "hands on" experience supplemented by careful supervision and review of progress leads to the development of each student's personal body of experience. The development of technique (or art) begins as the student becomes a junior member of a care team. The textbook is still a major source of learning, but the peer-reviewed medical literature begins to be useful. At a resident level the lecture format is far less appropriate except to introduce new concepts and to help the resident organize information in a useful way. Learning, primarily takes place as the resident accumulates a body of personal clinical experience and borrows experience from the consultant to supplement his/her own. Textbooks continue to be necessary. The medical literature is the prime repository for accumulated medical experience and residents use it for that purpose. Resident education is primarily developing and testing experience, reasoning and manual skills. A student looking for resident training should, therefore, focus on: (1) opportunity for clinical experience, (2) opportunity for expert consultation with faculty and peers at a higher level of training, (3) library facilities From an educational standpoint, it is advantageous for our residents to be exposed during their training to the variety of experiences in distinctly different types of hospitals. In four years of training, each resident will spend approximately 65% of the time at Grady Memorial Hospital and about 35% divided between Emory, Crawford Long, Piedmont, and the Veterans Administration Hospital. The number of gynecologic-obstetric patients in the five hospitals is more than adequate. There are about 6,300 deliveries per year at Grady and Crawford Long. Our department is committed to the idea that the best education in gynecology and obstetrics is provided by an opportunity to observe and participate in a program of excellent gynecologic and obstetric patient care. A continuing and diligent effort is made to maintain such a program in all hospitals. The training program is superb in providing supervised experience in gynecologic and obstetric care from the standpoints both of quantity and of quality. During the past 20 years, the expanded definition of the nature and content of the specialty of gynecology-obstetrics adopted by our department has had a far-reaching and favorable influence on the residency training pr gram. Obstetrics is presented and practiced as a specialty of medicine concerned with the "science and quality of human reproduction." Residents learn to be concerned with all factors and functions (biologic, social, or otherwise) that may adversely or favorably affect the quality of reproductive performance and care. They learn, for instance, that the expectant mother's educational level may be as important in determining the outcome of pregnancy as is elevated blood pressure, and that understanding the impact of alcoholism in the family may be as important as knowing the technique of cesarean section. Similarly, although operative techniques certainly are an important part of residency training in gynecology, the art of gynecology cannot be properly taught or thought of solely in terms of the technique of hysterectomy. We present and practice gynecology as a specialty of medicine concerned with all aspects of human femaleness. Just as gynecologists must be concerned with detection and treatment of cancer of the cervix, they must also understand their role in detecting and preventing osteoporosis and must learn to understand the aspirations and hopes of the woman in modern societies. Just as residents must recognize that their first responsibility in practice is to the patients "in their own private waiting room," they must also realize their responsibility to the general gynecologic and obstetric community and must help to provide for patients who may not be able to afford the services of a private physician. Our residents learn the diverse ways in which they can work as gynecologists-obstetricians. Many of our former residents have chosen to pursue their careers in general gynecologic-obstetric practice in communities throughout the southeast. Others have chosen academic careers. Many now choose to include primary health care to women as a part of their practice. Some have taken special training beyond their basic four-year residency training-in oncology, perinatal pathology, human sexuality, gynecologic endocrinology and infertility, public health, and perinatal medicine. The provision of primary care is an important part of gynecologic-obstetric practice. Our department strives to develop in residents a sense of their responsibility to provide primary care to women. Primary care gynecologists-obstetricians may decide not to manage personally the majority of medical problems presented by patients; however, all practicing gynecologists-obstetricians have a responsibility to be familiar with and able to detect the many medical problems that almost certainly will present in their offices (hypertension, obesity, thyroid disease, hematologic disease, breast disease, heart disease, diabetes, substance abuse, depression, etc.) and must be willing and prepared to make proper referrals for problems not managed directly in their own practice. In exercising this responsibility for primary-preventive care for women, gynecologists-obstetricians must be appreciative of the value of preventive care and must remain cognizant of the most up- to-date recommendations and methods of early detection and treatment. Many patients see only one physician on a regular basis, and that physician frequently is their gynecologist-obstetrician. Such patients should expect to receive comprehensive care. We strive to offer our residents in training the opportunities to learn of these problems which often present alone or in addition to gynecologic and obstetric problems. Residents are required to evaluate gynecologic or obstetric patients for health problems of a non-gynecologic nature and to decide what needs to be done. Residents are encouraged to seek consultation from other specialists, but only after thorough analysis of the problem including decisions about necessary diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Patients with primary gynecologic or obstetric disease are never transferred to another service just because they are sick. They are always cared for on the gynecologic-obstetric service unless necessary facilities or equipment are located elsewhere in the hospital and cannot be transferred to the gynecologic-obstetric service. This policy demands that our residents become very familiar with the care of patients with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hematologic disease, pulmonary disease, orthopaedic problems, trauma, psychoses, etc. Our implementation of the "Problem Oriented Record System" on the gynecologic-obstetric service has been of real benefit in assisting our residents to better understand the steps necessary for the proper evaluation of patients. The "team concept" of care is emphasized throughout the department. Many health professionals who are not gynecologists-obstetricians do make very important contributions to the care of patients. Our residents work closely with nurse-midwives, nurse practitioners, patient educators, physician assistants, nutritionists, social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, hospital chaplains, volunteers, and many others in an attempt to provide the total care that patients need. Residents learn that the team concept of care begins with cooperation and communication among all of the members of the team. Residents are expected to maintain a professional attitude toward patients, colleagues and work. A personal appearance that is usual, acceptable, and customary for a physician is expected at all times. A professional approach toward patients is gentle and compassionate as well as competent and complete. Assessments of resident performances are made on a regular basis. The inservice training examination of the Council on Residency Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology is given each year to residents. A satisfactory score on this examination is expected. The Administrative Structure of the Residency Program Dr. Sarah L. Berga is Chair of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University and Chief of the Gynecology Service at Emory University Hospital. She is also Chief of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Service at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Dr. B. Denise Raynor is Residency Program Director. Dr. Jennifer Goedken is Associate Program Director. Decisions regarding the residency training program are made by the director, the chiefs of service in the hospitals, and other senior faculty members, all of whom are members of the Advisory Faculty Council of our department. Administrative Chief Residents are selected from the fourth year residents. These appointments do not involve clinical duties that differ from those of the other 4th-year residents. However, these appointments are considered to be prestigious public recognition of leadership and administrative abilities, and they provide the opportunity for closer contact with the Director of the program. Grady Memorial Hospital is the major and base hospital for the gynecology-obstetrics residency program and for other undergraduate and graduate educational programs of the Emory University School of Medicine. The faculty of the Emory University Medical School is responsible for the supervision of residents in the Emory System. The offices of the Chairman of the Emory University Department of gynecology-obstetrics are located on the Emory campus. The offices of the Director of the residency training program are located on the Grady campus, and most of the departmental resident activities and programs are conducted from the Grady campus. The majority of undergraduate gynecologic-obstetric education program for medical students is carried out at Grady Memorial Hospital. Since July 1974, our residency education program has operated at Emory University Hospital and Crawford Long Hospital of Emory University. Both are full institutional members of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center and are owned and operated by Emory University. Grady Memorial Hospital is an affiliate institution of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University. Piedmont Hospital (1993) and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center have also been affiliated with Emory and are incorporated into the residency education program. Each chief of service is responsible for the organization and operation of that hospital's service, for assigning clinical duties, for supervising clinical work, and for implementing the education program of that hospital. Coordinating the program in the five hospitals, central administrative activities, educational content of the program, special events, selecting applicants, and evaluating resident performances are the responsibilities of the director of the program. Grady Memorial Hospital serves administratively as the parent hospital for the program. The Department Divisions The Division of Gynecology: Gynecology covers a broad clinical experience including office gynecology, benign gynecological surgery, gynecological emergencies, urogynecology, and breast disease. Much of the residency training for this division is based at Grady Memorial Hospital, where residents staff gynecology continuity clinics under the supervision of full-time division faculty. Specialty clinics at Grady (breast, urogynecology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility) provide residents with training in these specialized areas. The gynecology urodynamics laboratory provides comprehensive evaluation of female urinary incontinence and voiding dysfunction. The department also staffs a 24-hour Women's Urgent Care Center at Grady Memorial Hospital with full-time faculty supervision. The Women's Urgent Care Center has a minor surgical procedure room and transvaginal ultrasound equipment. Major concerns of the division of benign gynecological surgery are to train residents in proper preparations for surgery and in management of intraoperative and postoperative complications, to ensure excellence in surgical technique, and to ensure competent evaluation and management of gynecological emergencies. The inpatient benign gynecology service is run by 4th-year residents under the supervision of full-time division faculty. Daily ward rounds are conducted with all members of the team, which includes residents from the third and fourth years, the medical students, and the attending faculty. The surgical cases are performed primarily by the resident staff, although faculty members scrub on all surgical cases as a first or second assistant. Weekly Gyn lectures are informal conferences for discussion of topics relevant to general gynecology. The Ambulatory Surgery Service and the Family Planning Program at Grady Memorial Hospital are also a part of this division, and additional experience in general gynecology is available at the Emory University, Crawford Long, Piedmont and Veterans Administration Hospital. These programs are described in more detail elsewhere in this brochure. The Division of Gynecologic Oncology: Gynecologic oncology has had active services at Grady Memorial Hospital, Crawford Long Hospital, and Emory University Hospital since 1974. The department's association with county-supported and private hospitals permits a broad exposure to various tumors present in the vastly different populations treated at each institution. The tumor service at Grady Memorial Hospital is staffed by residents, each of whom is assigned a rotation. Residents are responsible for both outpatient and inpatient evaluation of preinvasive and invasive gynecologic cancers. Physicians from the division of gynecologic oncology supervise this tumor service. Private oncology patients are admitted to Crawford Long Hospital and to Emory University Hospital by the faculty of the division. Our residents are intimately involved in the inpatient care of these patients during gynecology rotations at the respective hospitals. Residents who are part of our residency program are the only house staff who rotate on these tumor services. Because certain of our patients are treated according to investigational protocols for clinical trials or other research efforts, clinical research interfaces with patient care. The division of gynecologic oncology is an affiliate of the Gynecology Oncology Group, which permits its participation in a multitude of national collaborative trials. Other clinical investigation protocols designed by the division are conducted on a local level. Residents have the opportunity to participate in these clinical investigations and to learn first-hand the mechanisms of protocol design and implementation, the methods of statistical analysis of results, and the logic of scientific evaluation and comparison of new and traditional therapies in various study populations. The division of gynecologic oncology is fortunate in having close relationships with internationally respected investigative scientists, many of whom are actively engaged in research in the Winship Cancer Center of the Emory University School of Medicine and in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Independent research in the basic sciences is also conducted by the division of gynecologic oncology both at the Grady Memorial Hospital and the Emory University locations, and several projects are presently underway at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Participation by residents in the clinical and research activities of the division is also strongly encouraged. The Division of Maternal/Fetal Medicine: Residents working with the Division of Maternal/Fetal Medicine spend their rotation time on the busy obstetrical service at Grady Hospital, where they can expect to encounter every conceivable obstetrical complication. Residents completing this program will be thoroughly grounded in obstetrical practice. A spacious Labor and Delivery Suite and an Antepartum/Postpartum Unit, state- of-the-art technology and family-oriented obstetrics are utilized at Grady Memorial Hospital. The Division of Maternal/Fetal Medicine teaches and provides for obstetrical care of both high-risk and normal gravidas. Each type of obstetrical procedure encountered by any resident (spontaneous delivery, episiotomy repair, forceps delivery, cesarean section, etc.) is supervised by an attending physician. A large, computerized database provides prenatal records, laboratory data, antepartum testing data, and obstetrical outcomes for patient care and for research. 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, weekly intrapartum care and perinatal mortality conferences are presented. Division members staff the Regional Perinatal Center at Grady Memorial Hospital, where thousands of ultrasound and electronic fetal monitoring tests each year provide data on fetal evaluation. There is a large obstetrical ultrasound service at Grady Memorial Hospital. The service works closely with the Department of Genetics in the diagnosis and management of abnormal fetal growth and fetal structural and chromosomal anomalies. Today, approximately 20,000 gynecology-obstetrics ultrasounds are performed annually, using state-of- the-art ultrasound equipment. Residents at Grady Memorial Hospital and Crawford Long Hospital are exposed to a large number of normal and abnormal pregnancies and the methods of fetal echocardiography, genetic amniocentesis and PUBS. Residents are expected to be able to perform a competent monographic evaluation of pregnant and nonpregnant patients following the ultrasound rotation. Residents are joined by Fellows in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine who rotate to these clinics to gain more advanced skills in fetal diagnosis and assessment. The clinical educational experience is enhanced by attendance at weekly conferences where abnormal monographic findings, are reviewed, by review of videotaped lectures and abnormal monograms, and by one-to-one instruction of residents in practical scanning and methods of obtaining optimal images. Research data are available through a computerized database of the results of more than 90,000 ultrasound scans. These data can be correlated with the computerized data- base of pregnancy clinical outcomes. Both databases are maintained exclusively by our Department. The Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility: The Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility was organized in 1981 at Grady Memorial Hospital with direction and supervision by full-time faculty members. Residents today have regular assignments to this division. Grady Memorial Hospital patients with infertility problems and gynecologic endocrine problems, including special endocrine evaluation and/or estrogen-progesterone therapy for menopausal symptoms, are referred to the division's clinic for evaluation and treatment, and patients requiring surgical intervention are scheduled for appropriate therapy, including microsurgical techniques, diagnostic and operative endoscopy (laparoscopy and hysteroscopy), conservative surgery for endometriosis, and correction of uterine and vaginal malformations. Surgery is supervised by full-time faculty members trained in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Faculty members of the division attend clinic sessions in which all patients are individually discussed and dispositioned. Didactic lectures are presented with residents in attendance. Private patients are seen by division faculty at Crawford Long Hospital and at the Emory Clinic facilities, and residents participate in the outpatient care and surgery provided to these patients. The Fertility Center at Crawford Long Hospital provides assisted reproductive technologies including IVF. The Division has a three year fellow- ship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. The Division of Research: It is the goal of the Division of Research to provide a strong, centralized, broad based, basic research component to the activities of the department. The division's administrative offices and core laboratories are located in the Woodruff Memorial Research Building on the Emory campus. The four major laboratory spaces occupy over 3,000 square feet of space in which the division maintains a cell culture facility and dedicated areas for research in biochemistry, immunology, and molecular biology. The division has full-time faculty and supports several postdoctoral fellows and technicians. A number of faculty from all divisions of the department sponsor and participate in research activities and projects. The division also actively collaborates in research projects with other departments of the Emory University School of Medicine, and graduate students from other university programs also rotate through these laboratories. The Division of Research is capable of supporting a broad spectrum of research in various aspects of gynecology and obstetrics including reproductive endocrinology, gynecologic oncology, and maternal/fetal medicine. A variety of research projects, both short- and long-term, involving immune function during pregnancy, endometriosis, preeclampsia, and menopause are currently under investigation. Residents are welcome to participate in these projects and to attend the division's ongoing seminar series, in which participants discuss their research interests and progress. The Resident Training Environment Resident training is overseen mainly by full-time faculty, although clinical faculty members also participate. Most of our full-time faculty are board-certified gynecologists-obstetricians, and many have special competence in specific fields such as perinatal medicine and high risk obstetrics, gynecologic surgery, perinatal pathology, human sexuality and sexual dysfunction, gynecologic oncology, family planning, public health aspects of gynecology-obstetrics, gynecologic and obstetric endoscopy, gynecologic endocrinology, microsurgery, etc. Other physician and non-physician full-time faculty members also have special areas of competence in such fields as steroid chemistry, sociological aspects of human reproduction, paramedical training, nurse-midwifery, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and obstetric anesthesia. In addition to these full-time and clinical faculty members, there are many others in the department with special expertise from whom our residents can learn. These include physician assistants trained in colposcopy, perinatal nurses with experience in fetal monitoring, family planning counselors, patient educators, social workers, nutritionists, and counselors for patients requesting abortions, for adolescents who are pregnant, and victims of rape. Our residents are also in constant and daily contact with many other support personnel and with programs offered by other academic departments within the Health Sciences Center in all affiliated hospitals. Continuity of care clinics in gynecology and obstetrics provide an excellent model in the ambulatory setting. Many of the points of philosophy and policy stated above have been implemented through careful selection of faculty members and organization of special programs for resident education and patient care. We describe several representative special programs here because such programs are so obviously of great importance to each resident in training. The Maternal and Infant Care Project at Grady Memorial Hospital was funded in 1965. Obstetric patients with "high risk" problems are identified for outpatient care in the special obstetrics clinics and for inpatient care in special obstetric wards. Almost all services that might be needed by these patients are available to them, including social services, nutrition services, special educational services, psychological services, laboratory services, dental services, and various other medical services. Residents are full participants in this project. The Labor and Delivery Unit at Grady Memorial Hospital is a modern state-of-the-art facility with operating rooms for laparotomy and cesarean sections, equipment for ultrasound, electronic and biochemical fetal monitoring, a recovery room, and an intensive care unit with the most modem equipment. The combined labor, delivery, and recovery unit provides an opportunity for residents to participate in the care of low risk patients in an alternate birth setting. There is an obstetrical intensive care unit. Residents manage patients in this area with daily consultation from gyn/ob and anesthesiology faculty. The Emory University Regional Perinatal Center at Grady Memorial Hospital was organized in 1977. This center accepts referrals of patients not normally eligible for admission to Grady for tertiary level high risk maternity care. These patients are very high risk and require appropriate diagnostic evaluation and often intensive care. Contraction stress tests, percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (PUBS) chorionic villus sampling, nonstress tests, amniocentesis, genetic counseling, ultrasonography, and many other tests and services are available to these patients. The Obstetric Anesthesia Service at Grady Memorial Hospital is a division of the Department of Anesthesiology working in cooperation with our own department. Anesthesia for pain relief and for the proper management of complications of labor and delivery is available to patients on a 24-hour basis. The Division of Nurse-Midwifery was established at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1970 as a part of the Obstetric Service. The Director of this division is also a full-time faculty member in the Department. Nurse-midwives care for selected low risk obstetric patients in the antepartum, intrapartum (including delivery) and postpartum periods. The presence of nurse-midwives on the Obstetric Service is a valuable experience for the residents. Residents can form their impression of paraobstetric personnel and how valuable their contribution is to a well organized clinical service. Residents also gain valuable experience serving as consultants to the nurse-midwives. The Teen Services Program is an adolescent pregnancy prevention project with services targeted to reach adolescents 16 years old and younger. The program provides contraceptive counseling and more general education and provides services and supplies to the adolescents who deliver at Grady Memorial Hospital. The teen services program provides comprehensive family planning services to over 1,800 clients annually, two thirds of whom have never been pregnant. This nationally recognized program has a very active outreach education program in the public school system in Atlanta that is aimed at helping young people postpone early sexual involvement. Residents refer young patients to this service. Perinatal Pathology with the departments of Pediatrics and Pathology was organized in 1963 under the direction of a full-time faculty member. This division has responsibility for developing and periodically reporting statistics for the obstetric service at Grady (rates of premature birth, perinatal death, fetal death, neonatal death, and maternal death), for determining causes of reproductive mortality and morbidity, and for making recommendations for improving obstetric and newborn care. Every perinatal and maternal mortality at Grady Memorial Hospital is reviewed, summarized and classified at a perinatal mortality conference, and the complete record is kept on file by the division. The work of this division facilitates the strong relationship of our own department with the departments of Pediatrics and Pathology. The Family Planning Program at Grady Memorial Hospital was organized in 1962 with the direction, supervision, and participation of full-time faculty members of our department. Residents are full participants in this program, which teaches the basic science and clinical aspects of contraception. Approximately 15,000 patient visits to the family planning clinics occur each year. Many special care, educational, and research projects are carried out within this program. The handbook entitled "Contraceptive Technology," which now is used in many family planning programs in this country and abroad, was produced by this program. The program also has been responsible for investigations into the relationship between contraceptives and venereal disease, for studies of techniques to provide large numbers of condoms to the community through women seen in the family planning clinic, for contraceptive implant studies, and for many other projects whose outcomes have positive influences on the population served. The Gynecologic and Obstetric Ambulatory Surgery Service organized at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1968 is directed and supervised by full-time faculty of our department, and our residents are regular participants in the care of ambulatory surgery patients on this service. The service is responsible for the performance of laparoscopic and minilaparotomy tubal sterilization procedures, and special counselors for the patients also instruct residents in counseling techniques and hospital policies and procedures. The service includes a special urodynarnics laboratory for the evaluation of gynecology patients with bladder dysfunction and instruction in hysteroscopy, urethroscopy, and laser surgery. Each year approximately 1,400 pregnancy interruptions are performed, most often during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Rarely are pregnancies interrupted beyond the first trimester. Resident participation in pregnancy interruptions is entirely voluntary. Social Studies in Women's Health was organized in 1965 under the direction of a full- time faculty member Ph.D. sociologist. Residents are not assigned to this division, but are periodically exposed to the results of studies that have been carried out on gynecology and obstetric patients at Grady Memorial Hospital. These studies primarily describe the characteristics of the population and suggest how these characteristics should be considered in designing health care programs for our patients individually and in groups. This division provides computer and statistical support for faculty, staff, and residents of our department. The Rape Crisis Center was organized at Grady Memorial Hospital in 1974 in response to a community need to provide improved services for an increasing number of rape victims. Residents are active participants in the work of the center and receive excellent instruction in the examination and counseling of victims of rape. Human sexuality and sexual dysfunction in gynecologic-obstetric practice is supervised and taught by faculty members who have special interests in this subject area. Postgraduate education lecture programs have been held by our department on a regular basis since 1961. Frequently, these conferences are held in one of the hospitals of our integrated program or in conference centers in Atlanta in order that residents may attend. The clinics and operating schedules are held to a minimum during these conferences to facilitate resident attendance. Guest faculty members and visiting professors are invited throughout the year to participate in the teaching program. These special events are an important supplement to the residency training program. The Annual Resident Research Day is a special event of great educational significance in the residency program. Each 2nd- and 3rd-year resident is required to submit a paper developed with a faculty sponsor and to present it orally before an audience and a panel of judges. Each paper must have a research element beyond that which might be found by simple literature review. The first such program was held in 1966 and Resident Research Day has evolved to become the educational highlight of the academic year. All but a few resident papers are excellent and many have been published. Our format for Resident Research Day has been copied by other departments in this country and abroad. Other formal conferences are presented regularly by our department, and teaching of the residents is a regular, daily activity of the faculty. The weekly departmental conference conducted and organized by the chairman is subject-oriented and topics throughout the year cover major gynecologic and obstetric problems. The weekly conference is service oriented and evaluates the performance of both obstetric deliveries and gynecologic procedures. Full- and part-time faculty, residents, nurses, medical students, and visitors attend these conferences, and attendance usually numbers 100 people. Regular case discussions from the gynecologic service are attended by residents on the benign gynecology, tumor, and emergency services and by 3rd-year medical students on the clerkship. The weekly tumor conference is held in collaboration with the Department of Pathology. A family planning conference is held weekly and is participated in by faculty members of the department and by residents. A perinatal pathology conference, gynecology oncology curriculum lectures, and obstetric didactic lectures also are presented weekly during the academic year. Faculty rounds with residents are conducted at least four times weekly. For More Information The Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics is an environment in which gynecologic and obstetric patients can be cared for properly and in which all aspects of the art of practicing gynecology-and obstetrics can be effectively taught and learned. Our department is approved for 9 positions each in the first, second, third, and fourth years. We appreciate your interest in our residency education program and hope that the information in this brochure has been helpful to potential candidates and applicants for residency training in gynecology-obstetrics in our department. If you have any questions about any of the information which we have presented here, please do not hesitate to ask. Contact Us |
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