Clinical Training
The focus of training during the fellowship is an in-depth exposure into all aspects of maternity care. You will have a high-volume maternity care practice along with full spectrum family medicine practice. The obstetrics fellowship combines a half-time practice in a community health center system (CHC) that delivers more than 1,400 babies a year. We serve a multiethnic population with about 70 percent of our patients being Hispanic. The combination of taking half-time CHC calls along with delivering many of your own patients would result in approximately 100 to 120 deliveries as a family medicine attending.
During the other half of the time, the fellow functions as an upper-level obstetrics resident on busy services at the University of Utah, LDS, and IMC Hospitals on labor and delivery. Both of these hospitals deliver between four to five thousand babies each year. Our fellowship graduates have the skills and experience to apply and obtain privileges for cesarean and operative deliveries in hospital systems throughout the nation. They obtain extensive training in routine and high-risk pregnancies and deliveries.
Sample Rotation Schedule
Teaching Responsibilities
Early in the year, the fellows attend the family-centered maternity care meeting sponsored by the AAFP; fellows also become certified ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) instructors. The fellows play an important role in helping coordinate the obstetrical teaching service at LDS Hospital for the family medicine residency - and in running monthly FP OB morbidity and mortality conferences for all family medicine deliveries at LDS Hospital and the University of Utah Medical Center. The fellows will give at least one family medicine grand rounds for the residency and community family physicians. The fellows serve as faculty for the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics Course sponsored by the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.
Call is approximately every four to seven nights. Fellows are expected to deliver their own patients when available.
Duration of the fellowship is one year.