Oishei Children’s Hospital

This hospital is the regional center for comprehensive and state-of-the-art pediatric, neonatal, perinatal and obstetrical services in Western New York and beyond.

Oishei Children's Hospital.

Oishei Children’s Hospital has achieved national recognition, with U.S. News and World Report ranking it among the top 20 pediatric hospitals in the country.

This modern pediatric acute and emergency care center provides diagnostic and treatment services to Western New York youth experiencing emotional and/or behavioral disturbances or family relationship problems. It offers a full range of medical and surgical services for children as well as comprehensive women’s health services.

A Level I Pediatric Trauma Center - one of only six in New York State - Oishei can accommodate 185 inpatients, including medical/surgical, ICU and neonatal patients, and adult maternity patients. The hospital admits nearly 28,000 patients annually and treats 123,000 patients in the emergency department or one of its 45 specialty clinics.

Training

You will complete between four and seven modules per year at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. The general obstetrics and gynecology modules, which each last about a month, offer an intensive training experience. You will spend about two weeks on labor and delivery, two weeks on gynecology and one-half day per week in continuity clinic.

During your second-year of training you will also spend two months working one-on-one with specialists during your maternal-fetal medicine rotation.

Continuity Clinic

Conducted in the Women’s Health Center, you will manage your own panel of patients as you conduct clinic one-half day per week for the length of your training.

Concentrated time in our continuity clinics helps you develop valuable relationships with the patients you see and the faculty who train you.

You will see general obstetric and gynecology patients across the age spectrum and will manage both high- and low-risk obstetric patients and routine gynecological issues. You will also gain experience providing preventative health care.

Rotations

Faculty and Staff

  • four maternal-fetal medicine faculty
  • eight general OB-GYN faculty
  • 10-15 volunteer OB-GYN faculty

Patient Population

  • women of all ages
  • mostly urban with a large racial and ethnic diversity