Ambulatory Women's Health Training

Program Goal

To develop the OBGYN resident's knowledge and skills to effectively evaluate and manage common and specialized women's health issues in the ambulatory setting

Faculty Contacts:

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Over the past several years, the University of Washington OB Gyn training program has expanded its ambulatory Women's Health training in response to graduates' feedback and changing practice trends in the specialty. The expanded ambulatory training (with educational objectives and resources on password-protected MedHub) includes the following:

PGY-1

• Urogenital Dysplasia Clinics at HMC and UWMC
• Adolescent Gynecology Clinic at UWMC
• Pediatric Gynecology Clinic at SCH
• Vulvovaginitis Clinic at UWMC
• Benign Breast Disorder Clinic at UWMC
• Family Planning Clinic at UWMC
• Reproductive Endocrinology Clinic at UWMC

PGY-2

• Perioperative Assessment Clinic (staffed by Anesthesiology faculty) at UWMC.
  • MedConsult Resources and Handbook
• Preoperative Assessment Clinic (staffed by Internal Medicine faculty) at HMC
• Urogynecology Clinic at UWMC
• Breast/Ovarian Cancer Assessment and Prevention Clinic at SCCA
• Reproductive Endocrinology Clinic at UWMC

PGY-3

• Benign Breast Disorder Clinic at UWMC
• Female Genital Dermatology Clinic at UWMC
• Urogenital Dysplasia Clinic at HMC
• Women's Medicine Clinic at HMC
• Referral Gynecology Clinic at HMC

PGY-4

• Urogenital Dysplasia Clinics at UWMC
• Referral Gynecology Clinic at UWMC
• Urogynecology and Urodynamics Clinics at UWMC

In addition to the above specialty Women's clinic, PGY-1 through PGY-3 attend a half day continuity clinic with their own panel of obstetrics and gynecology patients. Residents select their continuity clinic sites (HMC vs UW) after they match in this program and see their patients at that site for a half day each week for the first three years of training.

Resources

• Weekly Ambulatory Topics (case-based, password protected)
• Primary and Preventive Care Checklist
• HMC OB Gyn teaching site