Obstetrics/Gynecology
Residency Program
Curriculum - Descriptions of Rotations
| Reproductive Endocrinology and
Infertility |
Third-year residents complete a
two-month rotation in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI)
at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine (JI).
Structure
Residents perform laparoscopy,
myomectomy and hysteroscopy. They learn the principles of egg retrieval
and embryo transfer at the JI in the new surgery suite. Residents have
hands-on training in endovaginal ultrasound examination and office
procedures, including hysterosapingogram, endometrial biopsy and
intrauterine insemination. Residents are the principal surgeons for most
of the operative hysteroscopy, laparoscopy and myomectomy procedures.
They work as assistants to reproductive endocrine fellows in the more
complicated tubal reanastomosis procedures.
Teaching
Residents participate in didactic
one-on-one weekly chapter reviews led by a reproductive endocrinologist,
attend weekly seminars presented by a faculty member to review values of
patients who are being cycled and present one article at the weekly REI
Journal Club.
Faculty members and fellows present a
monthly REI didactic lecture series; topics for these lectures include
amenorrhea, ectopic pregnancy, polycystic ovarian syndrome, hirsutism
and basic approaches to infertility patients. Didactics cover
menopausal therapies, steroidal contraception, combining
estrogen/progesterone contraception, testosterone therapy and
progesterone-only contraception.
Supervision
The REI clinical reproductive
endocrinologists supervise all inpatient and outpatient clinical and
surgical activity.
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