The course includes faculty lectures. A written evaluation is provided to the students by faculty and house staff. There is no examination. This course consists of eight weeks in general obstetrics and gynecology. Students attend lectures, work daily in the general and special outpatient clinics, and are assigned patients on the obstetric and gynecologic wards.
Students share in patient care, teaching exercises, and in daily tutorial sessions with the faculty.
Clinical conferences, a gynecologic-pathology conference, endocrine conferences, and correlative seminars and lectures are included. The basic course in pediatrics for all students is an eight-week clerkship in the second year. Its principal aim is to provide an exposure to the field of child health. The student has a varying series of experiences which should give a grasp of the concepts that underlie the discipline. This should be accomplished with continuing reference to the basic principles of pathophysiology encountered in the first year courses.