Residency Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology

1. Residency Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology Texas Tech University El Paso

2. El Paso as a Community • Cultural Mecca • El Paso Symphony • The Sun Bowl • Low cost of living • => everything you need!!

3. El Paso as a Patient Base • Wide diversity • Extensive pathology seen in few places • Grateful patients • Great opportunities for research

4. Residency Program • Team Approach • Yearly breakdown of responsibility • Academic Instruction • Faculty experience • Offsite Rotations • Benefits

5. 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 Team Approach

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Second Year • Six months managing L&D • Five months on GYN service • One month of Ultrasound

10. Third Year • Two months of OB Service • Five months of GYN Service • Four months of L&D • One month of Endocrinology & Infert.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. Ruidoso

22. Skiing

23. White Sands