More than 2,000 babies were born at Allegheny General Hospital in fiscal year 1998, of which a significant proportion were from the department's Ambulatory Care Service. High-risk obstetrics composes 20 percent of all deliveries. Department physicians participate in the hospital multidisciplinary medical care teams and are involved in extensive in utero diagnosis, prenatal management and delivery. Additional operating rooms are located in the hospital s Outpatient Surgery Center, where assisted reproductive procedures are performed. The four-year Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program is fully accredited and designed to prepare residents for an academic career, private practice or subspecialty training within the discipline.
Clinical faculty are extensively involved in the teaching program.
Two residency positions are available at each of the four years. Residents in the department also rotate through anesthesiology, endocrinology, neonatology, oncology, ultrasonography, internal medicine, ambulatory care, geriatrics and emergency medicine. Residents are trained in breast disease evaluation and management as well as each of the additional areas as outlined in the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology guidelines. Physicians in the hospital-based obstetrics and gynecology services treat on average more than 10,000 clinic patients and 12,000 private patients annually. In conjunction with Allegheny General Hospital's Division of Urology, two full-time faculty members in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology are regularly involved in the evaluation and management of patients who experience urogynecologic problems.