The intensive care nursery is a fully staffed tertiary teaching facility with a faculty that actively interacts with members of the department. An active in vitro fertilization program delivered its first term pregnancy in 1985. Gynecological surgery is routinely performed at Medical University Hospital, Charleston Memorial Hospital, Charleston Naval Hospital and Spartanburg General Hospital. The chief resident, as well as the junior residents assigned to the oncology service, actively participate in radical procedures in order to gain greater knowledge of pelvic anatomy, confidence in dissection techniques and experience in surgery on the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts. They also are taught the insertion of intracavitary and interstitial radium, and participate in radiation therapy planning.
Chemotherapy also is administered by the gynecological oncology staff.
Endoscopy and microsurgery are taught by faculty members with special interest in these fields. A formal animal laboratory course in pelviscopic surgery is given to residents prior to the reproductive endocrinology rotation to introduce them to endoscopic surgical techniques. Regularly scheduled teaching and peer review conferences are held each Tuesday and Thursday. Residents are required to undertake two research projects, which are presented at the end of the second and third years. Resident presentations are judged by a faculty committee for monetary awards.