Rotations and Curriculum — Obstetrics Gynecology Residency at St. Vincent Medical Center
Facilities
Mercy Health – St. Vincent Medical Center
St. Vincent is home to four Life Flight air ambulances, holds the highest designation for treating high risk mothers and babies, Comprehensive Stroke Center and is a Level I Trauma Center for adults and Level II for children. Located on the St. Vincent campus are: Orthopedics, Mercy Health Regional Heart and Vascular Institute, Mercy Health Neuroscience Institute and the area’s only Mobile Stroke Unit. St. Vincent provides a modern, attractive and secure campus and takes a leadership role in providing quality medical education and community development. |
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Mercy Health – St. Charles Hospital St. Charles has been providing for the healthcare needs of Toledo’s eastern communities. A 390-bed Level III Trauma Center, St. Charles serves residents of Oregon, East Toledo and Lucas, Wood and Ottawa counties. |
Rotation Schedule
Our program utilizes a 13-block academic/rotation schedule. We also have a night float system which runs Sunday night through Thursday night.
PGY1
- Urogynecology – 1 block
- Gynecologic Oncology – 1 block
- Maternal Fetal Medicine – 1 block
- Labor and Delivery – 5 blocks
- Plastic Surgery – 1 block
- Intensive Care Unit – 1 block
- Emergency Medicine – 1 block
PGY2
- Urogynecology – 1 block
- Gynecologic Oncology – 1 block
- Maternal Fetal Medicine – 2 blocks
- Gynecologic Surgery – 2 blocks
- Family Planning/Research – 1 block
- Labor and Delivery – 6 blocks
PGY3
- Urogynecology – 1 block
- Gynecologic Oncology – 1 block
- o Reproductive Endocrinology – 1 block
- Gynecologic Surgery – 5 blocks
- Labor and Delivery – 4 blocks
- Elective – 1 block
PGY4
- Urogynecology – 3 blocks
- Gynecologic Oncology – 3 blocks
- Gynecologic Surgery – 4 blocks
- Labor and Delivery – 3 blocks
Didactic Curriculum
In addition to the clinical curriculum, the program offers a formal didactics series which includes:
- Weekly didactics on Fridays from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. featuring a rotating two-year curriculum based on APGO CREOG educational objectives
- Monthly Grand Rounds
- Monthly Morbidity and Mortality conference
- Quarterly Journal Club
- Monthly simulation training
- Cadaver lab on average quarterly
- Access to a laparoscopic lab with formal training in the first six months of residency
- Robotic Training curriculum.
Research and Scholarly Activity
Every resident is required to participate in and present a Quality Improvement project during their residency. They are also encouraged to complete case reports and additional research protocols if interested. All projects have a faculty advisor who actively participates as well as associate program director who is directly involved with all projects. The OBGYN program has access to a statistician and research assistant for help with development and guidance on the projects.
Publications and Presentations
Jenison, EL . -- Defining the prevalence of actionable germline variants in unselected endometrial cancer (EC) patients. Levine M, Goodfellow D, Cohn D, Jenison EL, et al – February 2021
Strobel SL, Jenison EL, Van Kooten JM, Kitts AN, Britton AJ. Triple negative lobular breast carcinoma metastatic to an ovarian fibrothecoma. J Histotechnol. 2020 Dec;43(4):200-203. doi: 10.1080/01478885.2020.1773638. Epub 2020 Jun 6. PMID: 32508260.
Barkin JL, Stausmire JM, Te MN , Pazik-Huckaby A , Serati M, Buoli M, Harding RS, Bruss CA, Stausmire KL. Evaluation of Maternal Functioning in Mothers of Infants Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2019 Jul;28(7):941-950. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2018.7168. Epub 2019 Jan 25. PMID: 30681387.
Kelly Parker, D.O. – Moderator for Mercy Health Symposium on Maternal Mortality on September 9, 2019.
Munné S, Kaplan B, Frattarelli JL, Child T, Nakhuda G, Shamma FN , Silverberg K, Kalista T, Handyside AH, Katz-Jaffe M, Wells D, Gordon T, Stock-Myer S, Willman S; STAR Study Group. Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy versus morphology as selection criteria for single frozen-thawed embryo transfer in good-prognosis patients: a multicenter randomized clinical trial. Fertil Steril. 2019 Dec;112(6):1071-1079.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2019.07.1346. Epub 2019 Sep 21. PMID: 31551155.
Stausmire JM, Greenbaum MG , Morelli-Greenbaum M. The Day I Died. Ann Fam Med. 2018 Jan;16(1):77-79. doi: 10.1370/afm.2170. Erratum in: Ann Fam Med. 2018 May;16(3):191. PMID: 29311180; PMCID: PMC5758325.