Curriculum

The four-year curriculum recognizes the resident's increasing skill and defining interests. As you gain clinical proficiency and medical expertise, you can assume greater direct patient care responsibility and increase your participation in the academic functions of the department.

Our training program is a very dynamic program.  Through a consistent desire to continually improve our program, we are repeatedly looking for changes which will provide an even stronger educational experience for our residents.  As technology has advanced and the needs of our residents changed, we have evolved.  We gather this information of needed changes from a combination of current residents, recent graduates of the program and faculty.  Recent examples of such changes include adding didactic sessions in the simulation training center and rotations at both the Veterans Administration Hospital and a private urogynecologist's office.

There are special curricular opportunities in medical economics, leadership training and advanced laparoscopy depending upon personal interests. All patients admitted to the OB/GYN service are "teaching service" patients. There is also a unique opportunity to learn about medical informatics and telemedicine. The largest simulated training facility in the Southwest was opened August 2006 and is recognized as one of the vanguard centers by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

                    "There are powers inside of you which, if

            you could discover and use, would make

            of you everything you ever dreamed or

            imagined you could become."

                                           -Orson Swett Marden