 Residents combine a full academic schedule with clinical experience.
They are assigned to both inpatient and outpatient services, assuring
treatment of all types of patients.
Residents gain experience working collaboratively with nurse-midwives.
In addition, residents develop close working relationships with
other departments, particularly pediatrics in the care of newborns.
Residents have training in fields that complement the study of
obstetrics and gynecology, including anesthesiology, pathology,
oncology, radiation therapy, medicine, psychiatry, breast diseases,
emergency medicine, and geriatrics.
Because surgical experience is an important part of the program,
residents receive intensive traditional surgical and operative
endoscopy instruction. Along with one-on-one operating room teaching
and close supervision there is availability of a complete four
station laparoscopy training suite on campus.
In the first year, the education is broadly based, and includes
a one-month rotation in the emergency department and four months
of ambulatory primary care, a one-month rotation in geriatrics.
While obstetrics is the primary focus of the first year, training
in obstetrics and gynecology and primary care is fully integrated
for the next three years. Oncology is included in the third and
fourth years.
In clinical obstetrics, residents are involved in an integrated
program of perinatal care, including identifying and assessing
high-risk mothers, intrapartum care and postpartum family planning.
There is instruction in obstetric techniques and maneuvers, as
well as in advanced methodology of fetal monitoring, genetics,
ante-partum testing and ultrasonography.
In clinical gynecology, residents care for both outpatients and
inpatients with a full range of gynecological problems, and also
participate in family planning clinics.
Since residents develop skills at different rates, the program
is structured around the individual to assure that competency is
gained in all phases of gynecological and obstetrical practice.
This is facilitated by a small number of residents, an active service
and a committed staff.
Academically, activities include working and teaching rounds, and
grand rounds. This is supplemented by frequent off campus educational
opportunities.
Weekly staff seminars provide the forum for updates on what’s
happening in the field. Presentations also involve ethics, health
law and business of medicine.
Residents also are involved in departmental research projects
and are encouraged to develop their own research interests, under
the guidance of Monmouth’s full-time epidemiologist research
director and faculty mentors.
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