Orthopedics Residents develop skills in office orthopedic care, sports medicine, and pediatric orthopedics through a rotation that includes experiences at SFGH, Moffitt-Long Hospital, UCSF, and Kaiser Hospital, San Francisco. During six months of the year, they share certain educational and clinical activities. During the Gynecology, Ophthalmology, and Urology rotations, residents have weekly seminars in Community-Oriented Primary Care and Family Practice Obstetrics. Two months are spent as the senior resident on the Service with overall responsibility for the ward team. Call is every fourth night.
Residents gain skill in performing various gynecological examinations and procedures.
They also learn the fundamentals of family planning and contraception. Pediatrics Selective Residents spend one month in the Pediatrics Subspecialty Clinics at UCSF hospitals. The resident gains practical, office-based skills in the management of patient problems in Urology, Ophthalmology, and Otolaryngology. Outpatient Pediatrics One month is spent in the Children's Health Center at SFGH with resident-level responsibility for intern supervision and first call for pediatric emergencies. Residents work in ten-hour shifts.