This is a call-free block. One block as a full-fledged member of the obstetrical team at Methodist Hospital. One block doing family medicine obstetrics with supervision by a family medicine attending with expertise in obstetrics. Responsibilities include prep room evaluations, deliveries, post-partum checks, circumcisions, newborn nursery, and obstetrical office evaluations. Twelve calls for family medicine obstetrics spread throughout the year.
Residents follow their own pregnant patients throughout the year.
Responsibilities include attendance at deliveries, newborn evaluations, sepsis work-ups, and well baby care. Second-year residents work with the pediatrics nurse practitioner and are supervised by the pediatric attending. Call is once weekly. You will also perform gynecological procedures including colposcopies and endometrial biopsies at the family practice center and the gynecology clinic for one day a week. This is a call-free block.