A faculty adviser is assigned to each resident for academic and personal counseling. Female sterilization and pregnancy termination procedures are offered to patients seeking care in Northwestern programs. While residents are not required to perform these procedures, they are expected to participate in the management of the patients experiencing complications from sterilization and pregnancy termination. The hospital also includes a neonatal intensive care unit, a general outpatient diagnostic and treatment facility, special clinics, an ambulatory surgery unit, and a research floor with supporting offices and conference rooms. Prentice is a regional perinatal center for high-risk mothers and newborns and a tertiary hospital for gynecologic oncology, reproductive endocrinology, and infertility.
Special facilities are available for ultrasonography and genetic counseling.
The department also completed 376 IVF cycles with an overall pregnancy rate of 42 percent. Evanston is a community-based teaching hospital with a long tradition of resident education. It is part of the Northwestern Perinatal Center with high-risk pregnancy and neonatal care facilities. Each subspecialty area is represented. Glenbrook Hospital provides a third-year rotation in gynecologic surgery.