Rotation Structure
The residency is a four-year program in obstetrics and gynecology that meets all requirements as specified by the ACGME and is fully accredited by the RRC. Residents primarily train at a single site, Inova Fairfax Hospital, where their training covers primary care, as well as basic and sub-specialty obstetrics and gynecology. See website page "About Us" to see the rotation schedule for AY1718.
Continuity Clinic
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus OBGYN residency training program offers a true continuity clinic experience where residents are identified as the primary care giver for the same group of patients throughout their residency. Residents perform a certain percentage of their continuity clinic deliveries themselves. Adherence to the 80 hr. work-week is required. Residents are encouraged to manage their own clinics as if they were in their own practice. Interns begin clinics in July of their PGY1 year.
During the academic year 2016-17 the PGY4s, PGY3s and the PGY1s will have their once-a-week continuity clinic experience at the Inova OB Cares Clinic, located at 6400 Arlington Blvd, Falls Church VA 22046.
The PGY2s will have their once-a-week continuity clinic experience at the Inova Medical Group (IMG) OBGYN practice located at Inova Medical Group Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1005 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 430, Arlington, VA 22201.
Didactics Schedules
Weekly |
Weekly Wednesdays 715am |
Weekly |
Monthly, |
IFH OBGYN Department Grand Rounds, MM Resident Presentations |
Gyn Onc Team Faculty, Team members in Gyn Onc Teaching Conferences |
IFH OBGYN Residency Didactic Sessions |
Team Training, Physician Wellness, Patient Experience, Legislation, Physician Advocacy, Compliance, Ethics, |
In addition to didactics and traditional bedside teaching, residents will also be involved in simulation training that will allow learners to sharpen technical and behavioral skills. Simulation sessions focused on operative gynecology will include sessions on
OR instrumentation,
pre-operative and intra-operative safety procedures,
intra-operative complication management and laparoscopic dexterity drills, and,
Cadaver lab.
Obstetric simulation for PGY1 residents will focus on
normal vaginal deliveries,
basic suturing techniques,
complications such as postpartum hemorrhage and shoulder dystocia, and,
normal labor and delivery management protocols.
Competency of upper level residents will be evaluated through hospital required, unannounced, labor and delivery critical event simulation exercises. These events, which will include post partum hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, maternal cardiac arrest, eclamptic seizure, terminal fetal bradycardia and post operative shock, will be conducted using the department’s Noelle patient simulator on labor and delivery or the gynecologic post-op ward.
ASTEC Training Center
ICAMS Training Center
Research
The OB/GYN program places a major emphasis on resident scholarly activity. As such, research methodology, statistical analysis, protocol IRB approval and publication requirements will all be presented to residents as part of their didactic education. Upon entry into the program, each resident will be assigned a faculty advisor who will assist the trainee in selecting a research question. All PGY1 residents will be required to choose a research question and perform a thorough literature analysis of the subject. At the end of the first year the resident will present his / her research topic and proposed research question to the department at an annual research day. In the second and third years of training, the resident will be required to carry out the investigation needed to answer his / her research question. In the final year of training the resident will be required to synthesize the data into the form of a publishable or presentable project. This project will be presented at the annual research day which will be proctored and judged by invited authorities in the field of the resident's research.
The department is very fortunate to have the Women’s Health Integrated Research Center on the Inova campus. This is a world class research institute that focuses on the genetic and molecular profile of diseases unique to women’s health. We hope that residents will avail themselves of the unique opportunities to correlate clinical conditions with genomic research. Currently Dr. Maxwell, Department Chair, has a DNA and tissue database of over 2000 patients that encompasses the clinical spectrum from oncologic disease to obstetrical abnormalities.
OBGYN Residency Curriculum Manual with Goals, Objectives, Milestones