Clerkship Information

Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology (POG) is a 12-week integrated clerkship block that comprises Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology (OB/GYN). The combination of these two disciplines allows students to experience and appreciate the continuum of health in pediatrics and OB/GYN. Students experience this interconnectedness through their clinical encounters, integrated didactics, and a combined postcede at the end of the integrated clerkship block.

• Obtain a focused patient history.
• Perform a focused new patient physical examination.
  
• Apply recommended screening and prevention strategies to women throughout the lifespan.
  
• Develop the provider role as advocate for quality and equity in patient care and optimal patient care systems.
  
• Analyze the impact of genetics, medical conditions, and environmental factors on maternal health and fetal development.
  
• Recognize indications for common diagnostic and screening tests such as ultrasound, UPT, CBC with differential, UA, STD panel, B-hcg, cervical or urine cultures.
  
• Use clinical reasoning to synthesize data from a surgical or obstetrical patient into a prioritized differential diagnosis, working diagnosis, and plan.
  
• Develop assessments and management plans based on patients’ pathophysiology.
  
• Apply knowledge of intrapartum and postpartum care in simulations and clinical encounters with mothers and newborns.
  
• Differentiate between normal and abnormal bleeding using knowledge of menstrual cycle physiology, puberty and menopause.
  
• Outline the etiology and evaluation of infertility.
  
• Construct differential diagnoses of patients with common benign gynecological conditions.
  
• Formulate a differential diagnosis of the acute abdomen and chronic pelvic pain.
  
• Classify common breast conditions and outline the evaluation of (or evaluate) breast complaints.
  
• Describe gynecological malignancies, including risk factors, signs and symptoms and initial evaluation.
  
• Role-play and relate knowledge of core OB/GYN related health issues including contraception, sterilization and abortion in shared decision-making with patients in clinical scenarios.
  
• Perform gynecological procedures using integrated knowledge of perioperative care.
  
• Develop a preliminary assessment of patients with sexual concerns.
  
• Assess patients for risks of domestic violence and child abuse.
  
• Demonstrate effective communication with patients and families.
  
• Demonstrate professional behaviors with all members of the health care team including physicians and non-physician health professionals.
  
• Exercise evidence-based practices.
  
• Summarize a patient’s condition in an oral presentation using the SOAP format.
  
• Construct a note based on a clinical encounter
  

• Pelvic Exam Instruction: A Gynecologic Teaching Associate will give you immediate verbal feedback on your performance.
• Shared Decision-Making Workshop: Your faculty preceptor will provide feedback after your interview with a simulated participant.
• Mid-Clerkship feedback: Please use the Folio website to guide your interview and record your feedback.
• Faculty Evaluation of Observed Clinical Encounter: Use the form in your expectations book during your week in clinic; you may ask a faculty member, fellow, APP or resident to observe you.
• EPA 5: Ask a clerkship director to scan the QR code on the back cover of your expectations book or click this link to record feedback on a note you write during your week in clinic.
• Postcede small-group simulation: You will receive formative feedback from faculty members.
• uWISE 100-question quiz: You will receive automated feedback while taking this and other uWISE quizzes.
• MedHubevaluations: You will receive summative evaluations from the 9 or more supervisors you identify on MedHub throughout the rotation.