Advanced OB Fellowship Program Information
 

Welcome to the Advanced Obstetrics Fellowship! We appreciate your interest in our program. Our mission is to provide advanced training in high-risk and operative obstetrics to family physicians who will work in low-resource areas and/or care for systematically oppressed populations.


Goals

  • Manage simple and complex labors.  

  • Attain competency in operative obstetrics, including cesarean section & instrumented deliveries.  Provide post-operative care for such patients.  

  • Provide competent prenatal care to pregnancies complicated by diabetes, hypertension, thyroid disease, substance use, and mental health disorders.  

  • Stabilize and treat pregnant patients hospitalized for pre-term labor, pre-eclampsia, diabetes, and placental disorders. 

  • Attain competency in performing biophysical profile and limited obstetric ultrasound.  

  • Maintain family medicine clinical skills.  

  • Develop and maintain competency in teaching obstetrics to family medicine residents. 

 

Objectives

  • Evaluate obstetric patients and their fetal monitoring tracings in triage  

  • Provide labor management, vaginal delivery and instrumented deliveries to obstetric patients of teaching panel physicians.  

  • Perform cesarean sections as primary surgeon with obstetric providers. Surgical skill level at the beginning of the fellowship will determine when the fellow is ready to be the primary surgeon.  

  • Augment surgical skills by assisting gynecologic surgeries, including tubal ligations and D&Cs. 

  • Perform post-partum tubal ligation on teaching panel patients. 

  • Perform limited obstetric ultrasound while on L&D. 

  • Supervise resident care of family medicine patients by precepting at the First Hill, Ballard and Downtown Family Medicine residency clinics.  

  • Teach Family Medicine residents on the obstetric service: triage evaluation, cervical exams, labor management, pitocin augmentation, IUPC, FSE, vaginal delivery, and postpartum care.  

  • Teach didactic sessions on L&D and during Tuesday afternoon didactics for Family Medicine residents.  

  • Present a topic in primary care obstetrics at our annual High-Risk Obstetrics for the Family Physician CME. 

Applicants interested in an OB Fellowship position should review the application information and direct any questions about the application process to Jesse Zayas jesse.zayas@swedish.org