OBGYN Clerkship
Curriculum

Click here to download the complete Obstetrics & Gynecology Clerkship Manual in Microsoft Word format.

Program Overview

Direct patient-student contact in clinical settings, both inpatient and outpatient, will be utilized to illustrate curricular content. Small  group discussions, lectures by full-time and part-time faculty, audiovisual aids and computer programs will be used to supplement patient-student contacts.

The basic text is Obstetrics & Gynecology by Beckmann, et al, fifth edition. This single text contains the basic elements of the core curriculum. A copy of the text is available for each student to borrow during the clerkship. Additional texts in Obstetrics, Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Reproductive Endocrinology, Gynecologic Oncology, Pelvic Surgery, Anatomy, Pathology and Pharmacology are available in the Department Library in the medical students’ work area, Clerkship Director’s office, Health Sciences Library and Labor & Delivery.  Textbooks must returned to the department before receiving final grades.

Students will learn:

1. To make a diagnosis of pregnancy;
2. To identify and manage usual problems occurring during the prenatal period and to identify high-risk obstetrics patients
3. To manage normal labor and to recognize and develop a management plan for abnormal labor;
4. To utilize fetal monitoring equipment and to be competent to interpret basic abnormalities of fetal heart rate tracings.

Students will participate in vaginal deliveries, cesarean sections, tubal ligations, repair of episiotomies and observe circumcision of normal newborn male infants.

Students will gain experience in seeing gynecologic patients and performing pelvic examinations. Experience in contraception, neoplasia, infectious disease and endocrinology and psychosomatic diseases affecting women is available. The identification, evaluation and treatment of gynecologic problems is stressed. Students will participate in a wide range of invasive diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.