The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology offers an American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology-approved four-year residency program for 12 residents (three per year). Our 28-member faculty who participate in resident education and training in supervisory and didactic roles are all certified by ACOG and include sub-specialty boarded gynecology oncology, gynecological urology and reproductive endocrinology. We contract with the maternal fetal medicine group of physicians at Wayne State University for on-site support. Obstetrical care also is provided by a group of 11 certified nurse midwives who participate in resident education.
The obstetrics department at Henry Ford Hospital contains a three-bed triage area, four-bed antenatal unit, 12-bed Labor/Delivery/Recovery (LDR) unit, a 24-bed postpartum unit and a 30-bassinette Level II Neonatal Unit service with approximately 6,600 visits and 2,200 deliveries per year. The obstetrics service is supported by 24-hour in-hospital anesthesia, radiology, laboratory, blood bank, neonatology, medicine, surgery and obstetrical attending staff coverage. The genetics department offers counseling, prenatal testing and co-management of patients whose unborn children have genetic diseases.
The residency program has full approval from the American Council of Graduate Medical Education and the Residency Review Committee. Upon completion of the training program, the physician qualifies to practice as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology and is eligible to take the examination given by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Special aspects of the program include robotic surgery, operative hysteroscopy, dedicated pelvic pain specialists and in vitro reproductive facilities.
There is maximum patient availability for residents since fellows in gynecologic oncology, reproductive-endocrinology and maternal fetal medicine are not present.
A faculty physician specializing in adolescent obstetrics and gynecology cares for adolescents with obstetric and gynecologic problems.
Both clinical and laboratory research opportunities are available to the residents.
First year residents are given ambulatory clinic experience but are not assigned a specific cohort of patients to follow.
Continuity clinics begin in the first year and continue throughout the entire four years of the residency program.
Conferences and Teaching Program
Weekly resident teaching seminars, faculty rounds and grand rounds incorporating teaching cases.
Guest lecturers present contemporary topics relating to the specialty.
