Curriculum for OB and Women’s Health Fellowship

• Inpatient and outpatient maternity care
• Triage OB/GYN patients with OB Hospitalist or FM-OB Faculty in OB Emergency Department
• Perform a minimum of 100 cesarean sections (minimum of 50 as a primary surgeon)
• Attend a minimum of 50 vaginal deliveries
• Structured, hands-on OB Ultrasound training
• Weekly OB didactics
• Weekly FM didactics every other month
• 1 Fellow Retreat
• Complete ALSO Instructor course and participate as a Presenter for the Family Medicine Resident’s ALSO course
• Fellows may do a 1-month elective which may be away (out-of-state or internationally)
• Teach and direct FM Residents and medical students on inpatient OB service
• Run OB SIM Lab for FM Residents during their OB and GYN rotations
• 1 Research Project to be completed during the fellowship
• Review OB clinic encounters performed by FM Residents

Competency Expectations after 1-year fellowship completion

• Maternity care in Routine and High-risk Obstetrics, including but not limited to GDM/T2DM, Chronic HTN, Gestational HTN, Preeclampsia/Eclampsia, PPROM, Preterm labor, PPH, shoulder dystocia, VBAC, other chronic conditions in pregnancy.
• Cesarean Sections
• Normal Vaginal Delivery
• Assisted Vaginal Delivery
• Insertion of Balloon Tamponade for PPH (Bakri, Jada)
• Vaginal Laceration Repairs (1st-4th degrees)
• Obstetric Ultrasound Proficiency
• Circumcisions
• Colposcopy and LEEP procedures
• Endometrial Biopsy
• Polyp Removal
• Suction D&C for Failed Pregnancies
• Sterilization (bilateral salpingectomy)
• IUD Insertion/Removal
• Nexplanon Insertion/Removal
• Eligibility for American Board of Physician Specialties Family Medicine Obstetrics Board Certification