AI: Maternal Fetal Medicine

School of Medicine

During this rotation, the student receives advanced experience in high-risk obstetrics designed to gradually provide the student with a sense of responsibility and ownership for the patients under his/her care similar to that of our first year residents. Students help to direct both the antepartum and postpartum care of patients with preterm labor, PPROM, and pregnancy-induced hypertension. By the end of the rotation, the student is responsible for daily documentation including admission/discharge/daily progress notes, supervised order entry, and patient cross-cover reporting to the resident team. The student is expected to be familiar with the main complications of pregnancy, be confident in delivering directed and concise patient assessments and treatment plans, and have mastered the mechanisms of normal labor and delivery. Specific learning activities include daily morning obstetrical teaching rounds; attendance at resident didactics; participation in resident OB emergency simulation training when available, and overnight call on labor and delivery suite. Learning resources include one-on-one interactions with the obstetrical house staff and attendings, access to current obstetrical texts and journals, and teaching conferences.