Regarded as intensive, time consuming, and professionally rewarding. Two months each year. Residents manage preterm labor, pre-eclampsia, intrauterine growth retardation, meconium, fetal distress, failure to descend. R1 runs labor and delivery deck, antenatal ultrasounds. Residents graduate with an average of 100-150 vaginal deliveries and 50 cesarean sections.
Rounds are informal or formal, depending on individual attending preferences.
Procedures include but not limited to lumbar punctures, thoracentesis, arthrocentesis, paracentesis, arterial and central lines, intubations, and running codes. Basic HIV training is included for the R1. The Outpatient Medicine Subspecialty rotation provides R2's with an opportunity to spend time with gastroenterologists, nephrologists, rheumatologists, endocrinologists, pulmonologists, and allergists in office settings. Both clinic and OR time. Residents who are not on the service may either care for their own patients or ask that the service handle their inpatient care.