Birth and Family Health AOC

Residents seeking additional expertise in the area of birth and family medicine may opt to broaden and deepen their training by doing the birth and family health AOC. All faculty members practice full spectrum care including OB and pediatrics. Our faculty and colleagues with special expertise in the area of birth and family medicine can guide your customization of this AOC.

Objectives

The birth and family track is designed to provide motivated residents opportunities to:

  1. Facilitate a series of prenatal group visits using the Centering Pregnancy Model.

  2. Deepen their understanding about breastfeeding benefits and barriers.

  3. Enhance bedside breastfeeding counseling and assessment.

  4. Work with midwifes (optional).

  5. Rotate on a c-section team (optional).

  6. Additional training in pediatrics (optional).

  7. Do birth and family-oriented research (optional).

Application Requirements

Residents must complete a short essay explaining their interest in birth and family medicine and meet the following requirements in order to be considered:

  1. Must be in good standing.

  2. Must be on track to graduate with adequate outpatient clinic visits and obstetrical continuity deliveries.

Requirements for Completion

In order to successfully complete the Gynecology Track residents must

  1. Complete the required intern OB rotations.

  2. Complete the required birth and family rotation.

  3. Complete two birth and family elective rotations.

  4. Complete the online reading curriculum on important topics in birth and family medicine.

  5. Perform satisfactorily in all rotations related to the AOC.

  6. Prepare and present a final project.

Birth and Family Electives

Designed around your particular interests but must be approved no less than 30 days in advance of the start of the rotation by the birth and family AOC coordinator. The birth and family AOC faculty can assist you in site selection and planning for rotations.  Rotations may include but aren’t limited to:

  1. Sick newborn care

  2. Inpatient/outpatient pediatric care

  3. Midwifery/low-risk obstetrics

  4. C-section/high-risk obstetrics

Reading Curriculum 

This curriculum is designed to provide a sampling of pertinent and interesting articles covering important topics in birth and family medicine. These readings supplement the required readings of the obstetrics and birth and family rotations.

All of these readings are available online. Some require the use of your UW NetID.

Final Presentation

After completing the curriculum readings and the elective rotations, the final requirement of the track is to prepare a verbal or written presentation on a topic of interest to you in the field of birth and family medicine. In most cases, this should be a formal presentation, given as an R3 talk or in another appropriate forum.