M3 OB/GYN Clerkship
Welcome! Please help yourself to
refreshments provided.
Welcome to OB/GYN M3 Clerkship
*Karen Carlson, MD
-Clerkship Director
-Generalist Faculty
*Katherine Finney, MD
-Assistant Clerkship Director
-Generalist Faculty
*Katherine Williams
- Undergrad
Coordinator
Orientation Agenda
Morning:
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Video/Tour
Clerkship Overview and Expectations
Pelvic Model
Pictures
M3 Survival Guide
Resident presentation
Lunch:
▫ APGO Videos
Afternoon:
▫ Lecture
Methodist Site Training
• Monday, of Orientation, @ 5 pm
• All students assigned to Methodist for OB
• Report to: Medical Office Bldg
▫ (left of main hospital)
717 N. 190th St.
2nd Floor Stasny Rm
▫ CERNER Training will begin at 5 pm
(Kim Thorson)
▫ Please try to be at the staff office 5-10 minutes
before appointed time. See instructions in your
booklet
• Park in parking lot.
Methodist Site Orientation
• Following CERNER training, someone will take
you for your Methodist Wmn’s Hospital
orientation.
▫ Orientation at MH will begin promptly at 6-7 pm
(Kristen Koseluk)
• You will be given ID cards at orientation.
PLEASE: Return to Methodist Security at end of
rotation (Office is located next to Emergency
receptionist).
Subspecialties in Ob-Gyn
• General Ob-Gyn
▫ 4 year residency
• Maternal-Fetal Medicine
▫ 3 year fellowship
• Oncology
▫ 3 year fellowship
• Reproductive Endocrinology
▫ 3 year fellowship
• Urogynecology/pelvic and reconstructive surgery
▫ 3 year fellowship
• Minimally Invasive GYN Surgery
▫ 2 year fellowship
• Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
▫ 2 year fellowship
Overview: Clerkship “Blocks”
• Obstetrics Block (2 weeks)
▫ UNMC or Methodist Women’s Hospital
• Gynecology Block (2 weeks)
▫ Gynecologic Oncology- 1 week
▫ Benign Gynecology – 1 week
• Outpatient Clinics Block (2 weeks)
OB Methodist Students
• Obstetrics block done at Methodist
▫ team with residents and MFM’s
• Gynecology block and Outpatient Clinic blocks
at UNMC and Durham Outpatient
OB SHIFTS
• Roughly 12 hour shifts
• plus am rounds at Methodist
• Expect approximately
• 8-11 shifts
• Days and nights
The hours may be long on the 2 weeks of OB, but for the 6
week rotation, you should NOT average over 80 hours per
week.
L&D Call Schedule
12 - 14 hr
Week 1
UNMC:
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NOTE: After lectures on Wednesday, all should go to L&D until after rounds that evening except for post call, lectures then off.
Course
Textbook
Educational materials
• www.unmc.edu/obgyn
• Click Education tab
▫ Lecture materials located here
 Click M3 Students
 Click Lectures
▫ Orientation/Resident’s Power Point presentation
 Click M3 Students
 Click Orientation
4 Required Educational Resources
1. uWISE – APGO educational testing module
http://www.apgo.org/student/uwise2.html
▫ Create user name/password to access
▫ unmc.edu extension gives access
2. Pelvic Examination
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMvcm061320
4 Required Educational Resources
3. Fetal Heart Tones
*www.ob-efm.com
*Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring:
Nomenclature, Interpretation, and General
Management Principles
ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 106
4. Colposcopy website
http://www.slideshare.net/drsubir/colposcopy
Great Resources
• American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
(ACOG)
▫ Free for students to join
• Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics
(APGO)
▫ uWise
▫ APGO
 Medical Student Education Objectives, 9th ed.
Clerkship Expectations:
www.apgo.org/members/medicalstudents.cfm
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Clerkship Expectations
*Specific expectations for each part of
clerkship in binder
Clerkship Expectations
• Medical Knowledge
▫ Explain normal physiologic changes of pregnancy including
interpretation of common diagnostic studies
▫ Describe common problems in obstetrics
▫ Demonstrate knowledge of intrapartum care
▫ Describe menstrual cycle physiology, and discuss puberty and
menopause
▫ Describe the etiology and evaluation of infertility
▫ Explain normal and abnormal bleeding
▫ Demonstrate knowledge of preconception care, including the
impact of genetics, medical conditions and environmental factors
on maternal health and fetal development
▫ Describe common breast conditions and outline evaluation of
breast complaints
▫ Demonstrate knowledge of perioperative care and familiarity with
gynecological procedures
▫ Describe gynecologic malignancies including risk factors, signs
and symptoms, and initial evaluation
Clerkship Expectations
• Patient Care
▫ Illustrate proficiency in the medical interview and physical
examination of women, incorporating ethical, social, and
diversity perspectives to provide culturally competent health
care
▫ Demonstrate knowledge of common benign gynecological
conditions
▫ Formulate a differential diagnosis of the acute abdomen and
chronic pelvic pain
▫ Provide a preliminary assessment of patients with sexual
concerns
Clerkship Expectations
• Interpersonal & Communication Skills
▫ Apply understanding of contraception, including sterilization
▫ Apply recommended prevention strategies to women throughout
the life span
• Professionalism
▫ Demonstrate the attitudes and professional behaviors
appropriate for clinical practice during ambulatory and inpatient
settings
• Practice-based Learning and Improvement
▫ Recognize their role as leaders and advocates for women
GYN Rounder and OB Rounder
• GYN Rounder
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Faculty assigned to supervise resident clinics
Staffs all inpatient and ED consults
May be same as OB Rounder
Varies during the week
• OB Rounder
▫ Faculty staffing UNMC inpatient OB service
▫ Generalist or MFM
▫ Varies during the week
Who will teach, supervise, and evaluate you?
• Obstetrics 2 weeks
▫ UNMC: OB team-rounder, staff, and residents
▫ Methodist-MFM faculty, generalists, and residents
• Gynecology 2 weeks
▫ Benign:
 Gyn residents
 faculty in OR cases
▫ Oncology
 Onc residents
 Drs. Remmenga & Rodabaugh
• Outpatient Clinics 2 weeks
~Two faculty per week
Who are the Chief Residents?
Catherine Brockmeier, MD
Jesse Loeffler, MD
Jamie Seeman, MD
Gina Torpin, MD
Who are the Methodist Residents?
Catherine Brockmeier, MD
Rachel Peterson, MD
Jenna Rehmer, MD
Jill Westcott, MD
Methodist MFMs
Robert Bonebrake, MD
Michael Levine, MD
Hemant Satpathy, MD
Andrew Robertson, MD
Joshua Dahlke, MD
Todd Lovgren, MD
Dan Connealy, MD
Neil Hamill, MD
Methodist Generalists
Mark Carlson, MD
Craig Bassett, MD
Paige Berryman, MD
Julia Bishop, MD
Judith A. Scott, DO
Abby Lankhorst, MD
Sarah Gernhart, MD
Brianne M. Kling, MD
Methodist Generalists
Megan Prickett, MD (Irwin)
Carolee Jones, MD
Amber Cohn, MD
Nancy Mathews, MD
William D. Weidner, MD
Kristen Hoffman, MD
Susan Westcott, MD
Methodist Generalists
Michelle S. Knolla, MD
Lanette Guthmann, MD
Tifany L. Somer-Shely, MD
Rebecca L. Jacobi, MD
Allison Phillips, MD
Thomas E. Martin, MD
Methodist physicians
consistently identified by
previous students as great
teachers 2014-15:
☼ Robert Bonebrake, MD
☼ Hemant Satpathy, MD
☼ Tiffany Somer-Shely, MD
☼ Neil Hamill, MD
☼ Sarah Gernhardt, MD
☼ Paige Berryman MD
☼ William Weidner MD
Methodist physicians
consistently identified by
previous students as great
teachers: 2014-15
Obstetrics “Block”
• 2 weeks on In-patient team service
▫ UNMC or Methodist
• Students follow labor patients and post-partum
patients
• Pelvic exams – not done
• Outline for note formats included in packet
• Be prepared for morning education topics
OB Block Notes
• Appropriate attire: SCRUBS
• Introduce yourself
▫ patients
▫ nurses
• Be available for checks, labor assessments,
and pushing phase and deliveries
• Make sure your gloves and an extra gown are
pulled for you; we want you involved!
• Try not to get upset with interns who are
learning how to do deliveries
UNMC Inpatient OB Service:
Scheduled OB Teaching Conferences
• Monday-Thursday 0700 (L&D MD Interaction Rm)
▫ Morning teaching rounds
 Patient presentations
 Scheduled OB teaching topics
• Fridays 0700: Diagnostics in OB/GYN (DOC 4608)
• Fridays 0800: Morning teaching rounds (as above)
• Additional OB topic teaching sessions based on L&D activity
Gynecology Block:
Benign and GYN-Onc
• 2 weeks of in-patient team services
• Gynecology notes and post-op course outlined in your
orientation packet
• GYN team
▫ ER
▫ In-patient consultations
▫ OR cases
• GYN-Onc
▫ OR cases
▫ Dr. Remmenga’s and Dr. Rodabaugh’s clinics
Gynecology Block:
• Appropriate attire
▫ scrubs when scheduled to be in OR
▫ no scrubs when going to clinics
• Students presentations (1)
▫ Benign Gyn week
• Student daily patient notes
▫ Should be COMPLETE by rounds
Preparing for an OR case:
- Background history on patient
-why is this surgery being done?
-read chart
-review labs
-review ultrasounds, pathology, etc.
- Read about that particular surgery
- Introduce yourself
-to patient in pre-op before surgery
-to OR staff
- Assist with moving/positioning of the patient
- Get your own gloves out
- After the case
-write the brief op note with help of resident/staff
-visit the patient 4 hours postop
-read the op note
-review the pathology
Outpatient Clinics “Block”
• 2 weeks of outpatient clinic exposure:
▫ One on one with 1-2 faculty/ week
• Look at faculty schedule the day before
▫ prepare, for example- postmenopausal
bleeding
▫ Routine OB care
• Hands-on opportunities for exams
• Review Gynecology clinic progress note in
orientation packet
• Scrubs never appropriate
• Study sessions assigned during this block
• Need to attend all assigned clinic sessions
Patient Log on Oasis
Patient Log on Oasis
*Non-patient care activity should be “last choice”.
What if I feel uncomfortable with pelvic exams?
- You are not alonemany physicians do not feel
comfortable with pelvic exams
- Today is the practice pelvic exam session
- We expect you to become more familiar with
the mechanics of the exam and how
to appropriately talk to your patient
during the exam- all exams should
be supervised
- It takes a lot of practice to do them well.
- “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Do
Breast and Pelvic exams”
How can I make the most of my
outpatient experience?
• Be flexible and keep an open mind. . .
-your schedule is an outline
-be available if opportunities to
learn come up
Wednesday Morning Teaching
• 8:00AM Grand Rounds
▫ MSC 1005/2018 (sign in) Begins August 6, 2014
• 9:00-12:00
▫ Lectures – DOC 4608
▫ schedule in notebook
• No matter which clinical block or hospital
currently assigned to, every student should
attend
• NO scrubs, please
UNMC Benign GYN Service:
• Preop conference
• Fridays 7:00 Diagnostics in OB/GYN (DOC 4608)
• Friday: GYN student presentation (Gyn topic)
▫ Time and place will vary
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5-10 minute review of assigned article
Present to Gyn rounder and Gyn team
Use Ob-Gyn resources other than Up to Date
5 points of final grade
No handout required
• Read weekly emails for updated schedule
UNMC GYN-ONC Service:
• Daily AM/PM work rounds
DOG Conference
- Friday 7:00am
Diagnostics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (DOG) in DOC
4608 (OB classroom)
No preparation required for students
*ALL rotations except GYN ONC and Methodist
Vice Chairman’s Luncheon
• Luncheon
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Towards the end of your 6-weeks
Dr. Remmenga usually hosts
All students are expected to attend
Lunch is provided
-Luikart library, WH 4029
▫ Your feedback is highly appreciated!
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Communication
• Please read your email
▫ We all communicate by email
Policies: Attendance/Absences
• If you are ill, please contact:
 Contact your current assigned service faculty or
chief resident as soon as you know you will be
absent.
 Send email notification both to Dr. Karen
Carlson and Katherine Williams as soon as you
know you will be absent
 If you leave during the day due to illness, please
notify both Dr. Karen Carlson and Katherine via
email.
 If you miss more than 1 day in the 6-week
clerkship you must make up this time.
Katherine will coordinate any needed make up
time.
*Do not rely on a classmate to relay your information.
*Efforts will be made to reschedule your clinic sessions
if missed.
Clerkship Grading Structure
• 50 % clinical evaluations
▫ Based on faculty and resident evaluations
▫ Department grading meeting
 Clinic advisors, residents, and faculty
• 40% written exam
▫ Shelf Exam: NBME 2 hour and 30 min exam
▫ last Friday of the clerkship @ 8 AM
• 5% GYN presentation
• 5% orange card/patient log/effort/attendance
PASS, HIGH PASS, HONORS
• Our department complies with the College of
Medicine’s recommended grade distribution of
▫ 20% = Honors
▫ 20% = High Pass
▫ 60% = Pass
Criteria for Passing Clerkship:
*Receiving ≥ 10th% scaled percentile
score on the NBME shelf exam
▫ National scaled percentile scores
▫ Approximately 64 raw score
AND
*Receiving satisfactory resident &
faculty evaluations
▫ clinical grade of Pass or better
UNMC Shelf scores compared to National average
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Nat'l
UNMC
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01- 02- 03- 04- 05- 06- 07- 08- 09- 10- 1102 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
Policies: Marginal or Fail Grades
• MARGINAL Grade:
▫ Students receiving a “M” on the clinical portion of
the rotation
▫ < 10th% scaled score on the NBME shelf exam
 Student may opt to re-take the shelf exam:
 If they pass second exam then his/her grade sheet will
have an addendum noting the improved exam
performance, but the grade remains MARGINAL
• FAIL Grade:
A student may receive a FAIL grade if significant
professionalism/clinical issues have occurred on the
rotation.
Grade Appeals
• All students have the right to appeal a clerkship
grade and/or comments for the Dean’s letter
• Initial requests must be made by email to
Katherine Williams
• Requests must be made within 30 days of grades
being mailed to students
• OB/Gyn department has committee to evaluate
these requests
Professionalism Expectations:
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Attendance
Be on-time to activities
Take your professional role seriously
Demonstrate respect
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patients
ancillary staff
nurses
supervising residents
faculty
fellow students
Professionalism Problems: Examples
• Being late/not writing notes on assigned patients
• Talking about patient information in public areas (i.e. elevators, Facebook,
twitter, etc.)
• Laughing/talking out of turn during lectures
• Texting during Grand Rounds or lectures
• Inappropriate discussions in front of patients during pelvic exams, labor and
delivery, etc.
• Up to 5 points will be deducted from your grade
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• Clinical grade will decrease one grade
▫ Example: High Pass down to Pass
Professionalism Problems: Other
examples
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Use of cell phones during conferences/lectures/in patient rooms
Inappropriate treatment of clinic or nursing staff
Not following patients after surgery/delivery
Missing deliveries/surgeries
Residents and/or faculty will give appropriate feedback and notify
Clerkship director of this interaction if problems arise
Feedback
• Mid Clerkship meeting:
▫ Dr. Carlson or Dr. Finney will meet with each student.
▫ Mandatory.
▫ Informal 15/20 min. meeting to give you feedback and receive
feedback from you regarding the first half of the clerkship.
▫ PRINT YOUR PATIENT ENCOUNTER LOG AND BRING TO
MEETING
▫ Fill out expectation sheet from orientation and bring
▫ See schedule in your binder.
▫ Please let Katherine know right away if you have any conflicts
during your scheduled time.
• End of rotation comments:
▫ You will receive written comments in your Sorrell Center
mailbox.
Evaluations for Students to Complete
• Department evaluations
▫ Evaluations of lectures
▫ Evaluations of individual faculty,
residents, aprn’s, cnm’s, and staff
• COM on-line evaluation
**We value your input!!
Student of the Week
• One student may be chosen each week as
Student of the Week
▫ Weeks 2-6
▫ Announced Wednesdays
• Nominations by house staff and faculty
• UNMC and Methodist students
Student Permission Form
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