Obstetrics/Newborn Care

Working one-on-one with an attending physician, you’ll care for all obstetric and newborn patients admitted to Oishei Children’s Hospital from Jericho Road Community Health Center, a busy family medicine practice that serves our region’s significant refugee population.

As a member of UB’s obstetrics and gynecology team, you’ll be fully integrated into the obstetrics labor deck and take call.

During daily rounds, you’ll:

• obtain obstetrical histories from patients
• counsel them on breastfeeding, epidural anesthesia and related issues
• perform risk assessments
• offer routine newborn and obstetrical screening tests
  
• manage antepartum triage issues

You’ll learn how to perform the following obstetrical procedures:

• artificial rupture of membranes
• cesarean sections (first assist)
• cervical dilation assessments
• dilation and curettage
• dilation and evacuation
• episiotomies
• fetal scalp electrode placements
• intrauterine pressure catheter placements
• non-stress tests
• placental deliveries and manual extractions
• ultrasounds (transabdominal and transvaginal)
• vertex vaginal deliveries
  

You’ll learn how to perform the following newborn/pediatric procedures:

• bladder catheterization
• circumcision
• phlebotomy and heel stick
• wound debridement

Among obstetrics patients, you’ll identify and treat conditions including:

• antepartum bleeding
• gestational diabetes
• hyperemesis gravidarum
• hypertension/pregnancy-induced hypertension
• injuries due to domestic violence
• malpresentation
• mood disorders
• post-term pregnancy
• pre-eclampsia
• preterm labor
• premature rupture of membranes
• substance abuse
• thrombocytopenia
• thyroid disease
• urinary tract infections
• vaginal infections
• venous thromboembolism

PGY-2

4 weeks