• A broad-based clinical experience in general and sub-specialty Obstetrics and Gynecology, including ambulatory and primary care aspects
• Opportunities to become skillful in the performance of surgical and technical procedures related to our specialty
• Graded responsibility and interpersonal skills suitable to become an effective and compassionate physician

These training goals are accomplished by providing complete clinical experiences on a variety of hospital and ambulatory services. Residents, faculty and nursing specialist form functional patient care teams in these settings. Faculty play the role of senior consultants with Chief Residents being responsible for patient management decisions and coordinating the energies of each team. Formal and informal teaching by residents and faculty takes place daily and is geared towards the junior learners on the service. Residents are assigned graded clinical/teaching responsibilities as they progress through the program. Our faculty prides itself on balancing resident autonomy with active faculty supervision.

Residents rotate on both inpatient and outpatient services. The Obstetrics service provides antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum care for both high-risk and normal pregnancies. Residents are exposed to genetics, sonography, critical care obstetrics, vaginal and operative delivery and a wide variety of antepartum complications during this rotation. The General Gynecology service provides operative and consultative services for the University. Residents are exposed to a wide variety of major/minor surgical procedures, urogynecology, pelvic sonography and operative laparoscopy. The Gynecologic Oncology service provides multi-disciplinary care for the oncology patient and residents are exposed to radical procedures, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and breast management. Residents are also expected to participate in ambulatory faculty clinics during their respective sub-specialty rotations.

The Resident Continuity Clinic program provides a dedicated ambulatory experience for resident education at Loyola. This daily resident-managed clinic functions on a par with private faculty clinics. Residents actively practice to primary care, routine and high-risk prenatal care, colposcopy, sonography and sub-specialty gynecologic services under faculty supervision. A faculty consultant attends each clinic session to review patient care plans and teach ambulatory concepts.

The resident on the Reproductive Endocrinology service rotates between the two campuses. Residents are exposed to the proper evaluation of the infertile couple, interesting endocrinopathies and management of the postmenopausal woman. Training in operative laparoscopy/hysteroscopy, pelvic reconstruction and assisted reproductive technologies in provided on both an in-patient and ambulatory basis.