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Residency Program

Resident Conferences

Resident Conferences are held on Fridays in CEB (Clinical Education Building) 1542 Tulane Avenue, Room 524 at 1:00 p.m. This is teleconferenced with our sister site at UMC in Lafayette.

To view the schedule click on the following link.

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Message From the Chairman

Speaking for the faculty and residents, I want to express our appreciation for your inquiry about our residency program.

When the Louisiana State University Medical Center was established on October 1, 1931, the Department of OB/GYN was simultaneously established.

Welcome new interns!

In the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol 31, No. 4, April 1936, there is an article titled, "American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Survey of Obstetric and Gynecologic Opportunities in 89 Hospitals in the United Stated and 12 Hospitals in Canada." In this article it is written, "The Board is now making a check of the material collected in the course of this survey of graduate training facilities in obstetrics and gynecology in the United States and Canada." LSU Department of OB/GYN was one of the sites that were involved in the survey showing that as early as 1936 the Department had been fully established. Records at the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education office in Chicago, Illinois show that in the 1950s, when the RRC began accrediting institutional programs, it gave full accreditation to the Department on the first site visit in 1953.

The training program in obstetrics and gynecology of Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans is based primarily at University Hospital, an extension of Charity Hospital. Additionally, residents rotate to other hospitals in Baton Rouge and Lafayette. These hospitals are managed by the LSU Health Sciences Center, Board of Supervisors. At each hospital, residents have primary involvement in patient care, with supervision by faculty. In New Orleans, full-time faculty members actively support the residents in outpatient clinics, all facets of inpatient care (including ward rounds, labor-delivery, and operating suites), and are available around-the-clock for consultations and emergencies. A video conferencing system is in place that allows all sites to participate in the Department's teaching program.

Patient care is primary in this training program, however instruction is paramount as are all didactic teaching efforts since like all OB/GYN programs education is foremost. Research is required under the direction of faculty members and each resident will, during their final year, present a paper on their research project during the resident research day in early spring. On completion of this program, residents are adept in all aspects of obstetrics (including operative), gynecology and all abdominal and vaginal procedures, and diagnostic techniques (including colposcopy, laparoscopy, and urologic studies). Graduates of this program are well-prepared to enter private practice, academic medicine, or advanced sub-specialty training. We encourage the highest quality of applicants and select those with the best potential, abilities, and motivations to achieve these goals.

Thomas Nolan, MD
Abe Mickal, Professor and Chair

Residency Program Director

Dr. Hoxsey

Doctor Rodney (Rod) J. Hoxsey was born in Great Falls, Montana, earned his Doctor of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School where he also did his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at the University of Chicago Michael Reese Hospital. He has been on a teaching faculty most of his professional career from the Air Force tour of duty at Keesler AFB through is 23 years at Northwestern University Medical School to his appointment at the LSUHSC Department of OB/GYN in 2004.

Doctor Hoxsey has a deep and sincere interest in education and training residents and students. Following Hurricane Katrina he was named Student Clerkship Director and he developed a preceptor model with simulation laboratory training in order to facilitate the return of students to New Orleans following the storm. He also became first the Associate Residency Program Director and then the Program Director as we not only prepared to return to our primary training site, but also faced a monumental ACGME accreditation site visit. The Program has filled its residency positions every year and they have fulfilled their research requirements even while rebuilding the program. Education has become a major focus while still providing service to our community as they repopulate New Orleans. Our residents have completed more research and presented more papers at national meetings than ever before.