Each resident does 2 blocks each year. Most deliveries are performed during night float. Backup to intern when available to help. R3 - supervises R1 and R2, trauma and emergent surgeries, cesarean sections.
Team covers all codes.
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.