OB/GYN Residency Curriculum

Held daily and attended by all resident physicians, medical students, nights and daytime faculty, and key nursing and midwifery personnel. Usually attended by MFM of the week for added continuity. Focus is on comprehensive and safe hand-offs, education, and next steps preceded by a protected 30-minute education session, and usually followed by organized OB/MFM rounds.

Held daily for 30 minutes. Usually considered ‘portable’ education, such as review of book chapters, Prologs, CREOG question review, ACOG practice bulletins or committee opinions, lectures, or mini-lectures. This education follows the APGO/CREOG educational objectives.

Held weekly, each Friday from 1 to 5 p.m., 2nd floor, Parkview Hospital Randallia. The topic usually has a theme depending on the MSU lecture schedule or the availability of any visiting professors.

• Pre-op conference (first Friday of the month)
  Held on the first Friday of the month at noon. Resident physicians will prepare their continuity clinic cases for presentation to the faculty and residency class. Each resident physician will defend their work-up and decision to operate in an oral board fashion.
   
• Tumor Board (second Monday of the month)
  Held on the second Monday of the month at the Parkview Packnett Family Cancer Institute.
   
• Morbidity and mortality conference (third Wednesday of the month)
  Held on the third Wednesday of the month in conjunction with the departmental Safety and Quality meeting and attended by all resident physicians and faculty.
   
• Surgical skills lab (third Friday of the month)
  Held on the third Friday of the month at noon. Utilizing a variety of inanimate surgical models, resident physicians and medical students will practice skills ranging from knot-tying, circumcision, amniocentesis, sacrocolpopexy and cystoscopy, to name some examples.
   
• Journal club (fourth Friday of the month)
  Held on the fourth Friday of the month at noon. Articles will be chosen by a resident physician-leader, selected from the current literature, and reviewed with a faculty moderator. Resident physicians will take turns being assigned articles, and present them to their colleagues and department faculty utilizing critical scientific evaluation.
   
• Resident physician research meeting (fifth Friday of the month)
  The ACGME requires scholarly activity and highly encourages that an original research project (QI/QA or original research) be performed by every resident physician. This will be a clinical research project, performed during clinical duty or after hours. Dr. Woodman will start the PGY-1 resident physicians on several mini-primers in research to help guide them in selecting a suitable project, a mentor, and begin meeting with the resident physicians every three months throughout their residency training to set performance goals and keep all on task. Collaboration opportunities exist with the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation team members and their cutting-edge facilities. Computerized research modules will be provided through our educational partners, and other opportunities with Indiana University School of Medicine and Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine. PGY-3 and PGY-4 resident physicians will be expected to present their results at a local, regional or national meeting. Publication will be highly encouraged.

Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM) has been a leader in clinical education for decades – quickly approaching 50 years old. MSUCOM has a consortium of community hospitals across the state of Michigan that meets monthly to cover topics outlined in the APGO/CREOG education objectives, and invites local and national visiting professors those hospitals could otherwise not afford on their own. Additionally, MSUCOM offers workshops, labs, computer courses, seminars and review courses (see Specialty courses below). Many of these programs are online, but even the in-person courses are only two-hours away in East Lansing, Michigan.

The American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have made satisfactory completion of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery course as a pre-requisite to taking the Board exams in June-July. PGY-3 resident physicians will be enrolled for the course computer modules, so they will be prepared to take the practical test by the fall of their fourth year. As most employers would like graduates to be competent at daVinci® robotic surgery, each resident physician will be trained to meet the Intuitive requirements for being called a daVinci® surgeon.

Annually, usually in April, an Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) will be held, testing each resident physician on skills pertinent to their respective year-level.

Held annually, usually in conjunction between the urogynecology and gynecologic oncology faculty.

Held every three months and attended by all resident physicians and faculty. Speakers consist of local and invited faculty and visiting professors.

Many are associated with the MSUCOM Statewide Campus:

• PGY-1 intern bootcamp based on the APGO R4 program
• PGY-1 OB-Ultrasound workshop
• PGY-1 Colposcopy course
• PGY-1 Intro to Research
• PGY-2 Basic Science Computer Course Series
• PGY-2 Intro to daVinci® Course
• PGY-2 Cadaver Lab
• PGY-3 Leadership Course
• PGY-4 Business of Medicine Course
• PGY-4 Board Review Course and a Mock-Orals exam
• Annual Research Day
• Annual Controversies Day

• Obstetrics
• GYN/Gynecologic Surgery
• Night Float
• Emergency Medicine
• Internal Medicine
• Intensive Care/ICU
• Neonatal Intensive Care

• Obstetrics
• GYN/Gynecologic Surgery
• Night Float
• Urogynecology/FPMRS
• Gynecologic Oncology
• OB-Ultrasound
• Breast Surgery

• Obstetrics
• GYN/Gynecologic Surgery
• Night Float
• Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
• Advanced Family Planning

We are exploring a variety of different clinical sites for the reproductive endocrinology and infertility rotation. We currently have a plan to work with Parkview Endocrinology and several of our general specialists in OB/GYN who have a special interest in infertility. We also plan to work with reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist Rebecca Pierson, MD, as a guest lecturer.

• Obstetrics
• GYN/Gynecologic Surgery
• Night Float
• Urogynecology/FPMRS
• Gynecologic Oncology
• Elective
• Ambulatory GYN/Business of Medicine