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Residency Curriculum
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' residency program is a
graduate program structured to provide residents an opportunity to achieve the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to the practice of obstetrics and
gynecology.
It is also geared toward the development
of competence in the provision of ambulatory primary health care for women.
The
program provides the opportunity for increasing responsibility, appropriate
supervision, formal instruction, critical evaluation, and counseling for the
resident. It is designed to provide education
as a first priority. It
contains a patient-service component, but does not primarily function to provide
hospital service.
The faculty includes
full-time academic physicians and scientists, along with a dedicated staff of
other health care providers. Our commitment to graduate medical education
encourages residents to fully participate as members of the health care team.
Clinical training occurs through services provided to a large, diverse patient
base. Further training occurs through
weekly conferences, including department
grand rounds and case presentation conferences, along with a monthly journal
club, designed to enhance the critical evaluation of the literature and
reinforce evidence-based medicine. All of the services conduct daily teaching
rounds led by faculty.
Weekly reading assignments
are made from selected texts and weekly examinations are conducted in a
team-based learning session. The reading is geared towards preparing for CREOG
and ABOG tests. A specific curriculum on laparoscopic and hysteroscopic
simulators is also used to improve surgical skills.
A web-based system (New
Innovations) is used to conduct monthly evaluations of the residents by the
faculty. The residents are also given the opportunity to evaluate faculty
members. These evaluations are available on-line for viewing at any time. The
residents meet with the Assistant Program Director six months into the academic
year and with the Program Director near the end of the year to evaluate progress
towards graduation.
The program also monitors
duty hours for each resident which are logged into New
Innovations to ensure compliance with the ACGME work hour requirements.
The overall goal of the
program is to create an environment where residents can acquire a comprehensive
knowledge of obstetrics and gynecology to prepare for general practice,
subspecialty practice, or a career in academic medicine.
A list of weekly
conferences is listed below:
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
4301 West Markham Street, #518
Little Rock, AR 72205
(501) 686-5380
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