Each team has a designated clinic day, surgery day, and labor and delivery day, with the other two week days being divided among th e teams to include additional OR time, labor and delivery experience, and specialty clinics including colposcopy and contraception clinics. Merging of the obstetric and gynecologic experience allows for patients to be followed longitudinally and for a team approach for the care of our patients. It has been a popular rotation. During this rotation, two residents cover the Wishard Obstetric Intensive Care Unit Sunday through Thursday nights from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next morning. Residents are then free to go home and rest.
All interns spend one rotation on the ambulatory medicine service.
Residents spend time as a second-year resident in the Emergency Room at Wishard Hospital seeing all patients with gynecologic complaints. Obstetric patients less than 20 weeks gestation are also evaluated by the ER resident. This team consisting of an intern and third year resident serves as a consultant service for patients with high risk obstetric problems. A portion of this rotation is spent caring for inpatients with a variety of medical and obstetric conditions as well as attending the high risk clinics with perinatology staff. At Methodist, Dr. James Sumners assigns specific patients to the residents for their management.