Clerkship OBGYN Feedback

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Clerkship OB/GYN Feedback

• Andrea Lo
• Gladys Chan

CEC Meeting Monday January 20, 2003
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OB/GYN Feedback

• BCOE focus group meeting
• Session with 7 students
• Other comments given on the phone or via e-mail
• Surveys sent to groups that have finished their
  rotations
• 15 surveys collected so far
• 1 strongly disagree
• 7 strongly agree

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Orientation Survey - Overall Outlook
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Overall Strengths

• Good OB/GYN website
• Objectives given in advance in the learning
  handbook at appropriate level
• Clerks Companion very useful
• Consultant teaching good overall, excellent
  learning environment
• Fair oral exam

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Overall Weaknesses

• No prior sessions on scrubbing in
• Gyn Surgery
• Too many clerks, not enough work/teaching
• Technically, no post-call day for clerks
• Teaching
• Poor communication regarding time and location
• Variable resident teaching
• Outdated notes
• Exam
• Administered at week 5, clinic based
• Allotted time for exam too short
• Marks assigned for specific terms

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St. Joseph's

• DR
• Feel that you have to be very proactive during
  the DR in order to have more experience
• No formal sessions on how to follow labour
  throughout its course
• Gyn Sx
• Mostly urogynecology, very focused surgical
  subspecialty
• Clinics
• Variable experience
• Overflow clinic sometimes cancelled
• Colposcopy clinic students were not allowed to
  attend

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St. Josephs

• Call
• DR call intense but great learning experience,
  while GYN call usually very quiet
• ER consults
• Residents should be first call for more
  sensitive situations
• Evaluation process
• Great feedback, give students a chance to improve
  performance
• Multiple evaluations for clinic good

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Westminister

• DR
• Not much hands-on experience, resident dependent
• GYN surgery
• Either 2 weeks of gyn onc or 2 weeks of basic gyn
  
• Oncology
• great exposure to the field, consultants made
  effort to include students in teaching and
  overall view of the aspects of cancer treatment

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Westminister

• Clinics
• Good opportunity to practice pap smears and
  independence
• Teaching
• Teaching with Dr. Robins great small groups
  content relevant and interesting
• Overall
• Consultants and residents who are eager to teach,
  some residents appear tired and were not as eager
  to teach as others
• First day introduction was delayed with the wrong
  time written in

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Windsor

• Overall
• Excellent rotation. Enthusiastic staff and team
• Good teaching, no formal sessions. Great clinical
  experience
• OB 50 deliveries, a lot of delivery experience
• Gyn
• Limited scope of OR variety (mostly gyn, few uro
  gyn no gyn onc). A lot of operative experience
• Teaching sessions
• Video conference needed for formal teaching
• Poorly organized. A lot of issues have been
  resolved

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Suggestions for Improvements

• Clerks Companion include
• Gyn. Oncology page
• Westmin directory/ handy phone s
• A contact person for immediate suggestions
• Scrubbing session during site orientation
• Gyn
• Post call day needed if busy night
• Provide suggested reading for operations or
  teaching during the OR
• Exam
• Additional 3 minutes per question
• Allow more flexibility in answering questions