Residency Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Residency Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Texas Tech University
• El Paso

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El Paso as a Community

• Cultural Mecca
• El Paso Symphony
• The Sun Bowl
• Low cost of living
• gt everything you need!!

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El Paso as a Patient Base

• Wide diversity
• Extensive pathology seen in few places
• Grateful patients
• Great opportunities for research

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Residency Program

• Team Approach
• Yearly breakdown of responsibility
• Academic Instruction
• Faculty experience
• Offsite Rotations
• Benefits

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Team Approach

• OB Team
• Labor and Delivery
• OB Clinic
• Complicated OB
• Tumor Clinic
• GYN Clinic

• GYN Team
• OR
• Colpo Clinic
• URO-GYN Clinic
• Office Hysteroscopy
• Laser/LEEP/Cryo
• OB and GYN Clinics
• Antepartum Patients

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Intern Year

• six months on the OB/GYN service
• Off-service rotations
• Surgical intensive care unit(SICU) 
• internal medicine outpatient clinics combined
  with breast clinics, 
• emergency room 
• family medicine outpatient clinics
• 5. Breast Clinic
• Ultrasound

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Intern Year - Goals

• provide direct patient care under the supervision
  and guidance of more senior residents and faculty
  
• Assisting/primary in cesarean sections
• learning the discriminate use of the
  forceps/vacuum in delivery
• Develop knowledge for USMLE 3

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Second Year - Goals

• Manage the labor and delivery suite
• Assist in major GYN procedures and perform the
  majority of minor
• Perform cesarean sections and assume care for
  those patients
• More experience in the selection and use of
  obstetrical forceps

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Second Year

• Six months managing LD
• Five months on GYN service
• One month of Ultrasound

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Third Year

• Two months of OB Service
• Five months of GYN Service
• Four months of LD
• One month of Endocrinology Infert.

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Third Year - Goals

• Perform as junior senior resident
• manage the oncologic patients, endo- infertility
  patient and the urodynamic clinic patients
• primary surgeons for most hysterectomies
• Manage high risk obstetric patients
• Assume teaching roles

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Fourth Year

• Chief Residents
• term as "Administrative Chief Resident" in charge
  of scheduling conferences, arranging case
  presentations, assigning clinic duties and making
  call schedules
• expected to be well versed with every inpatient
• Prepare for private/academic practice

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Typical Call Night

• Board Runner (usually 2nd year, once a month 3rd
  year in two 12hr shifts)
• Intern- managing triage
• Backup (intern/2nd year)
• Senior (3rd or 4th year)
• Faculty

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Facilities at Thomason

• 5,000 births
• Level II and Level III nurseries
• 335-licensed beds
• 22,000 admissions
• 55,000 emergency room visits
• 2,000 trauma cases

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Thomason Labor and Delivery Facilities

• Computerized central monitoring
• Five designated high-risk beds
• Five low-risk beds
• Two ORs and two delivery rooms
• Large triage area
• Twenty-four-hour anesthesia coverage

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Benefits

• Meal Card
• Book allowance
• Free parking
• Free laundry for lab coats
• Free lab coats
• Insurance Health, Disability, Life
• Vacation

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Ruidoso
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Skiing
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White Sands
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