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Department of Family Medicine
WVU Family Medicine Resident Curriculum
Obstetrics
| General: |
Interns and second-year residents rotate through the obstetric service. Delivery experience varies according to the number of interns on the service as well as time of year since the OB interns get relatively more deliveries earlier in the year. |
| Call: |
Call is usually one-in-four nights, and interns cover both inpatients as well as the labor and delivery ward. There is senior back-up as well as a rotating night-float system of seniors covering L&D. |
| Patient Load: |
Inpatient census is manageable. Numbers can vary between two to eight patients, depending on the cases and number of normal deliveries. |
| Other Learners: |
The teams consist of the attending staff, a chief resident, a senior resident, an OB intern and two off-service interns, one of whom is a family medicine intern. Second-year family medicine residents may rotate on the OB night float service. During this rotation, second year residents are scheduled 8:00 p.m. - 8:00 a.m. and have their weekends free. They do not maintain their family medicine continuity clinic during this rotation. |
| Supervision: |
Attendings share inpatient and L&D responsibilities. Some patients are private patients and are not covered by the OB team. Senior residents supervise most of the daily patient care and are knowledgeable and helpful.
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