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Didactic Educational Program
The department's educational program is comprised of a series of formal lectures, informal seminars, clinicopathologic conferences, morbidity/mortality conferences and journal clubs. Wednesday mornings are designated for formal resident education and all Ob/Gyn residents are releaved of their clinical duties to attend. Clinical coverage is provided by assigned faculty members in the residents’ stead.
Following is a brief description of the departmental educational conferences:
- Patient Care Conference - Salient points of specific patient management problems from the previous week are discussed. Assigned residents review the cases from their service and does preliminary reading regarding those particular problems. During the interactive discussions, residents are called upon to discuss basic science and clinical management issues related to each specific case.
- Grand Rounds - Offers a venue for our faculty, visiting faculty and outside speakers to make a formal presentation to the Department.
- Morbidity/Mortality Conferences: The Gynecology and Obstetrics monthly M&M conferences offers critical discussion of selected cases amongst residents/faculty. A quarterly Perintal M&M is held jointly by the MFM division and Neonatology in which specific high-risk obstetrical cases are reviewed by all involved services..
- Journal Club - A monthly conference which allows residents, clinicians and research faculty to critique selected articles from medical journals.
- Weekly Didactic & Surgical Skills Workshops: Resident lecture series run by both department and visiting physician lectureres which provides an hour long lecture and discussion of specifica CREOG educational topics followed by an hourn surgical skills workshop on the SSOM simulation lab for hands-on learning.
- Other clinical conferences at Loyola include a multi-disciplinary Gynecologic Tumor Board, Urogynecology conferences and Perinatal Morbidity/Mortality meetings.
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