Responsibilities include prep room evaluations, deliveries, post-partum checks, circumcisions, newborn nursery, and obstetrical office evaluations. Twelve calls for family medicine obstetrics spread throughout the year. Residents follow their own pregnant patients throughout the year. Responsibilities include attendance at deliveries, newborn evaluations, sepsis work-ups, and well baby care. Second-year residents work with the pediatrics nurse practitioner and are supervised by the pediatric attending.
Call is once weekly.
You will also perform gynecological procedures including colposcopies and endometrial biopsies at the family practice center and the gynecology clinic for one day a week. This is a call-free block. During one block of electives residents spend one day per week doing colonoscopies and flexible sigmoidoscopies with a colorectal surgeon. Family medicine is consulted on patients in the intensive care unit, psychiatry, and on surgical and medical subspecialty services. Emphasis on inpatient management using the biopsychosocial model and perioperative evaluations.