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IN THE NEWSSOGH Members Featured at ACOG National Summit on Women's Health by Jennifer Butler, M.D., Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine
A diverse group of OB/GYN leaders from across the country attended this summit and brainstormed about how to improve resident education to produce competent and confident graduates. Some concrete ideas included tracking during the 4th year of residency, increased simulation and improved competency evaluations. This is the beginning of a long journey, but the level of enthusiasm in this group was infectious. The future of our specialty depends on us evolving with the changing needs of our trainees and patients.
SOGH representatives Dr. Tanner Colegrove and Dr. Jennifer Butler attending the ACOG Summit. (Dr. Cate Stika not pictured)
SOGH Partners with Perinatal Quality Foundation
SOGH is pleased to once again partner with the Perinatal Quality Foundation to provide a CLEAR (Cervical Length Education and Review) certification discount for registrants of Dr. Jeffrey Dungan's Ultrasound for the OB/GYN Hospitalist workshop at the upcoming 2017 Annual Clinical Meeting. The CLEAR program is an integrated lecture, exam, and image review program designed to improve sonography cervical length measurements. The Perinatal Quality Foundation's mission is to support programs and research that will improve the quality of obstetrical care. SOGH is thrilled to collaborate on this invaluable educational opportunity. Details on the workshop and CLEAR discount are available on the ACM webpage. Early registration is encouraged as space in the workshop is limited.
Audio Digest Publishes SOGH 2016 ACM Lecture Rated five stars, Dr. Brian M. Mercer's class on Preterm Labor, presented at the SOGH 2016 Annual Clinical Meeting is now available for purchase from Audio Digest. You'll find it under Volume 64, Issue 12, June 21, 2017.
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Along with my colleagues, Cate Stika and Tanner Colegrove, I had the privilege of representing SOGH at ACOG’s National Summit on Women’s Health. Discussion focused on the future of our specialty, patient advocacy and resident education. Concerns were raised about the increased amount of information residents need to learn compounded by decreased work hours, and the overall effect this has on patient care. Over the past couple of decades, the number of procedures performed by graduating residents has dramatically decreased. For example, the mean number of hysterectomies performed by residents in 1980 was 175-180; in 2015 it was 90. A similar trend can be seen with forceps. The median number of FAVD performed by graduating residents in 2003 was 19 and in 2015 it decreased to five. What does this mean overall? Well, to quote Drs. Berkowitz and Minkoff: “We risk training generalists who know more and more about less and less.”
