This health system is made up of 14 hospitals in the metropolitan St. Louis area and together serve a population of over a million people. The heart of this hospital system is Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the primary location of our teaching program. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital for the entire region, which allows us to have a training program of amazing diversity. We also are a primary provider of care in St. Louis City itself, providing residents with the ability to learn the skills of a primary care physician. We make use of the BJC Health System to teach operative benign gynecology at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.
Residents play an active role in the development of the educational program.
Each of the four resident years has a preceptor to whom they offer suggestions and critiques. The residents meet on a regular basis with the Program Director, Dr. Rebecca McAlister, and with me, as Department Chairman. There are also a series of task forces to which all the residents belong to improve our training program. The residents participate actively in the recruitment of new residents and in the development of the yearly schedule. There is a comprehensive system by which we evaluate our residents' performance.