Residents may also elect to participate in the longitudinal OB track providing all prenatal care for assigned patients culminating in delivery of the patient at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital. Outpatient GYN clinic is held at the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler and includes training in gynecological assessment and procedures. Residents receive colposcopy training at a rural primary care clinic near Tyler. Two months of surgery training are done during the Intern year. The first month is done at the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler with training in basic skills, operating room procedure and proper techniques in general surgery.
Most work is done as the first assistant.
The second month of surgery is done at East Texas Medical Center with board certified trauma surgeons. Residents become confident in evaluating the Emergency Room trauma patient, putting in chest tubes, intubating patients and running central lines. Also included in the training is an excellent SICU experience. During this rotation, residents review large volumes of films to become comfortable reading x-rays. The learning experience includes reading plain radiographs, CT's, MRI's and ultrasounds.