Women's Health Clerkship
Total Contact Hours:
375.15 hours
Director:
Sheela Barhan, M.D., Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Description:
The Clinical Clerkship in Women's Health will prepare the student to:
- Understand the process of normal labor and delivery
- Participate as a principal & assist in normal labor and delivery
- Recognize complications of pregnancy
- Obtain a complete history and physical
- Recognize and manage common Ob/Gyn problems
- Learn to do a pelvic examination
- Recognize clinical features of common Gyn disorders
Learning Goals, Assessment, Practice, Teaching and Learning Activities, and their Integration with the Institutional Educational Objectives:
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What does our institution want our graduates to do? |
If your students mastered the content of your course, what would they be able to do? |
What will students need to do for them and others (peers, professors) to know whether they have achieved this specific learning goal? |
How will students get the information they need to learn? |
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Given a patient with an uncomplicated pregnancy, demonstrate knowledge of normal labor and delivery:
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Biweekly quizzes Shelf Examination Resident/attending observation Patient/procedure logs |
Resident and attending formative feedback |
Inpatient care Follow specified patients from the onset of labor to delivery. |
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Actively participate as a principle and assistant in normal labor and delivery |
Resident and attending assessment of ability to assist in the delivery process Biweekly quizzes Shelf Examination Patient/procedure logs |
Resident and attending formative feedback |
Inpatient care Assist the residents/attending in the process of normal labor and delivery. |
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Conduct a comprehensive history and physical exam with obstetrical and gynegologic patients. |
Residents and attendings will evaluate histories and physicals. Student will give two formal presentations and be graded. Patient/procedure logs |
Resident and attending formative feedback |
Inpatient care Write a history and physical for patients admitted to both the gynecologic and the obstetrical service. |
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Recognize and manage common problems in the ambulatory obstetrical and gynecologic patients, including:
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Clinical observation and morning rounds. Shelf examination Biweekly quizzes Patient/procedure logs |
Resident and attending formative feedback uWise questions |
Inpatient care in the clinics, emergency room and Obstetric triage |
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Perform pelvic examinations and interpret abnormalities |
Resident and attending will monitor student and give formal feedback at mid-term. Patient/procedure logs |
Participate in the teaching associates program at the beginning of the rotation. Resident and attending formative feedback |
Perform mentored pelvic examination on patients in clinics and operating room |
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Given the common gynecologic condition listed below, be able to develop an appropriate differential diagnoses, identify appropriate diagnostic testing, and develop approaches to treatment for:
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Student will see patients in the clinics and then present patients to residents and attendings Biweekly quizzes Shelf examination |
Resident and attending formative feedback uWISE questions |
Participate in the clinics and obtain clear history of present illness. Present cases to the residents and attendings. |
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Develop a thorough understanding of contraception, including sterilization and abortion |
Resident and attending will evaluate students on their ability to recommend types of reversable and permanent contraception Biweekly quizzes Shelf examination |
Resident and attending formative feedback uWISE questions |
Lectures by faculty Reading Participating in clinics |
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Demonstrate the ability to be a capable surgical assistant by being able to:
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Resident and attendings will grade students on their ability to be capable function as an assistant in the operating room Biweekly quizzes Shelf examination Patient/procedure logs |
Resident and attending formative feedback at time of surgery, laparoscopic simulator |
Students will assist in both minor and major surgeries in gynecology Students will assist in the care of pre- and post-opt patients |
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Make informed decisions in working with ob/gyn patients and colleagues where there are complex moral or ethical issues |
Residents and attending will assess ability of student to interact with the patients. Biweekly quizzes Shelf examination |
Resident and attending formative feedback ethics case studies |
Patient care Case discussions including conference with ovarian cancer survivors. |
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Orally present ob/gyn patient case histories to colleagues using appropriate scientific literature to support diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment options |
Student will be graded on the two presentations. That grade will be based on the quality and clarity of the presentation as well as demonstrated knowledge about the pathophysiology of the disease process |
Resident and attending formative feedback |
Give two oral presentations to assigned faculty members. These cases will be based on patients the students have actually seen. |
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Describe common procedures in ob/gyn and select those procedures are appropriate for specific conditions |
Each student will present a procedure common to obstetrics and gynecology to the clerkship director as well as to his/her colleagues. Biweekly quizzes Shelf examination |
Resident and attending formative feedback |
Student will participate in a variety of procedures involved in obstetrics and gynecology throughout the eight-week period. They will also be involved in laparoscopic simulation training. |
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Demonstrate the ability to seek out and listen to feedback on performance, accept it positively, and respond to it constructively by improving performance. |
Evaluation by the residents and attending faculty |
Inpatient formative feedback Ambulatory formative feedback |
Role modeling Inpatient care Ambulatory care |
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