Research

At the end of each academic year, we have Annual Research Day were the graduating class of residents are required to participate and present their research project. Residents choose their individual research mentor, who acts as a project supervisor. The resident and mentor work with our Director of Research, Allan Jacobs, MD, and pur research committee to ensure each project is properly designed and conducted. The goal is to generate at least one manuscript that is acceptable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Residents are train to draft IRB abstracts and are guided along the way to help them achieve this goal.

Rotation Schedule

24 hour Call

The call schedule is now changed to a 24 hour Call System whereby every resident takes call every fourth or fifth night. Our residents have given us positive feedback regarding this schedule change and appreciate the extra time they have away from hospital duties to read, study, or do research. Given below is a rough overview of the Blocks schedule for each year

PGY-I:

OB: 22 weeks; GYN: 18 weeks; Ambulatory: 4 weeks; Family Medicine: 4 weeks; Continuity Clinic: 36 weeks; Vacation: 4 weeks

PGY-II:

OB: 18 weeks; GYN: 18 weeks; Ambulatory: 4 weeks; Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility: 4 weeks (at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell); Emergency Medicine: 2 weeks; Continuity Clinic: 36 weeks; Vacation: 4 weeks

PGY-III:

OB: 16 weeks; GYN: 20 weeks; Ambulatory: 4 weeks; Gyn Oncology: 8 weeks (at Memorial Sloan-Kettering); Optional Elective Block: up to 4 weeks (between 3rd and 4th year); Continuity Clinic: 36 weeks; Vacation: 4 weeks

PGY-IV:

OB: 10 weeks; GYN: 20 weeks; Ambulatory: 8 weeks; Optional Elective Block: up to 4 weeks (between 3rd and 4th year); Continuity Clinic: 35 weeks; Vacation: 4 weeks

Resident Support

We assist our residents for Written Board preparation by sponsoring them for Education Courses in their Chief Year. Residents are encouraged and supported to attend Conferences and present poster and papers at meets. We also provide with a special CREOG educational series in the latter half of the year to help them improve their CREOG scores. Residents always enjoy on-campus as well as remote online access to e-books, journals and educational material, pub-med, stat ref,ovid. The Librarian on campus provides support with the research literature search and finding articles for their MnM presentation. We provide all our residents with ACOG Memberships and support them to attend the Annual ACOG Conference and District Meetings. The department organizes Simulations to train for Obstetric emergencies like Cod-H, Code-D and Code-C. They also receive dry-lab and pig lab training as mentioned before to improve their Gyn surgical skills