Clinical Sites
New Orleans
Students doing their ob/gyn rotation in New Orleans will rotate at Touro Infirmary and University Medical Center (UMC)
During the six week block students will rotate between obstetrics, benign gynecology, and gyn oncology. Specific schedules will be distributed during orientation. In addition, students will be assigned a faculty preceptor with whom they will meet for four half day sessions.
Didactic sessions are held on Friday afternoons in the form of team based learning sessions. Students are required to attend these sessions. The discussions require student participation; therefore, it is in the students' best interest to prepare for these sessions ahead of time. Other mandatory conferences during this rotation include Grand Rounds, Wednesday school and pre-op conferences.
Lafayette
Students doing their ob/gyn rotation in Lafayette are primarily based at University Hospital and Clinics (UHC). In addition clinical in-hospital obstetrical services are also provided at Lafayette General Medical Center, the parent organization of UHC.
Lafayette General Medical Center, (LGMC), is a private non-profit hospital where students will get hands-on experience in obstetrics under the supervision of both LSU OB/GYN staff and private staff. Students will spend their Labor & Delivery hospital time at this site. Some students will gain additional clinical experience here through the Private Practice Preceptorship Program.
Additionally, some students may be provided clinical experiences at Our Lady of Lourdes/Women & Children's Hospital, an HCA Health Care Hospital, thru the Private Practice Preceptor Program, as this is a practice site for many of the local physicians participating in the preceptorships.
The six week block for students assigned to UHC in Lafayette will be divided between obstetrics and gynecology. Specific team schedules will be determined prior to orientation. Orientation will include lectures on general ob/gyn topics and introduction to the female anatomy. In addition, students will be assigned a local ob/gyn physician as a preceptor with whom they will meet for, at a minimum, one half day session per week. Time with the preceptor takes precedence over other clinical duties. The students also are required to participate in the team based learning sessions. Additional didactic sessions are generously provided by the Nursing Staff of LGMC and UHC.
Outpatient obstetrical clinical experience is provided by the LSU OB Staff and Family Medicine residents in the UHC Family Medicine Clinic. The student will be assigned times on a rotating basis for the LGMC Labor & Delivery Unit experience. While on the obstetrics rotation, the student will participate in postpartum rounds with the resident and assist with management of laboring patients, triage evaluations, and deliveries. Students can expect to participate in both vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections. Schedules will be determined during orientation.
The gynecology portion of the rotation will be provided at UHC under the direction of Gyn staff working with OB/GYN residents from the LSUHSC OB/GYN Residency Program rotating at UHC. Students will participate in the workup of gynecology patients in the outpatient setting at UHC Central Clinic. Students will be expected to follow patents preoperatively, scrub into surgical cases, and asist with postoperative care. In additional, Staff rounds and preoperative case conferences will enhance the students' learning on this part of the rotaiton. Students will take GYN call nightly and weekends from home on a rotating schedule at UHC. The Uro-Gyn specialty clinic is held every other Monday afternoon in UHC Central Clinic under direction of the LSUHSC Urology-Gynecology fellowship. Students will enhance their understanding of the Urological and Gynecological system.
Didactic sessions are held in the form of team based learning sessions. The schedule is determined during orientation. Students are required to attend these sessions. The discussions require student participation; therefore, it is in the students' best interest to prepare for these sessions ahead of time. Other Teleconferences during this rotation include Grand Rounds (Wednesday mornings) and morbidity and mortality conference (Friday afternoons twice per block). Students are expected to keep a log of patients seen and obtain signatures in their procedure booklet to document their experience on this rotation.