Didactic Sessions

Five hours of didactic sessions are provided to our residents every Wednesday. The appropriate subspecialist or generalist gives each of the lectures. This protected time allows for the faculty to cover all areas of obstetrics and gynecology including:

  • Basic and operative gynecology
  • Basic and high-risk obstetrics
  • Reproductive endocrinology and infertility
  • Urogynecology and pelvic reconstruction
  • Medical statistic and study design
  • System-based medicine (cost-effective health care, health policy, quality improvement, health care systems)
  • Primary and preventative care
  • Pathology
  • National speaker grand rounds
  • Perinatal and gynecologic mortality and morbidity conference
  • Ethics and professional development seminars
  • Gynecologic oncology lectures are given every other Friday morning at 7 am

Each resident is required to design and complete a research project during his/her four-year tenure at St Luke's. Our residents, under the mentoring of our faculty and full-time research director, have presented seven papers in the last three years at national meetings.

Work Day

The residents work less than 80 hours per week, with call averaging one night in every four to five. We currently do not have a night float system since it limits the experience of the residents and reduces their time in the operating room and clinic.

Morning rounds start at 7:15 am during which cases from the previous day are reviewed with the program director, interested faculty and consulting perinatologist. A mentoring attending and senior resident supervise junior residents during each rotation. In labor and delivery, the resident team is supervised by the perinatologist of the day. A generalist or sub-specialist, depending on the clinic type, supervises the clinic team. The gynecologic surgery chief resident assigns junior residents to appropriate level surgical cases. The concept of graded responsibility is followed during all of our rotations.

Sign out rounds occur every afternoon at 4:30 pm. The call team takes over at 5 pm. The call team is advised by the in-house attending.