Family Medicine Obstetrical Expansion Residency Training

The HRSA "FOR-TRU-OK" Project Goal

The goal of this proposed project is to significantly expand -- beyond the current curriculum -- the obstetrics training of Family Medicine residents who participate in the Family Medicine Expanded Obstetrics Track curriculum. This expanded track will assure that residents who plan to provide obstetrical care as graduates are trained to an appropriate level of competence aligned with the Council for Academic Family Medicine Guidelines for Maternity Care Training in Family Medicine Residencies. The purpose of the program is to offer Family Medicine residents in the Family Medicine Expanded Obstetrics track the knowledge and skill to provide competent obstetrical care to women in urban, rural and tribal underserved communities in alignment with these guidelines.

To Apply

Family Medicine Obstetric residents in the spring of their PGY-1 training will write a letter of interest that includes their motivation for participating in the program. In addition to being in good standing in the Family Medicine residency program, they must provide a letter of support from a Family Medicine faculty member who practices obstetrics or board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist faculty member in the OU School of Community Medicine Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The faculty member must agree to be their sponsor during the Family Medicine Obstetrics track training.

Curriculum

All residents in the Family Medicine program receive eight lectures of approximately two hours each on the obstetrics and gynecology topics. Family Medicine Obstetric residents will receive 11 additional obstetrical topics. Family Medicine Obstetrics track obstetrical didactics will be presented monthly, including but not limited to the topics in:

Evidence-Based Cesarean Delivery
Early Pregnancy Loss
Gestational Diabetes
Group B Strep
Hypertension in Pregnancy
Induction of Labor
OASIS
Obstetric Ultrasound
Opioid Use and Substance Use Disorder in Pregnancy
Prenatal care
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Shoulder Dystocia

Clinic/Hospital

This project will be conducted at several training locations in tribal, rural and urban underserved clinical sites in northeast Oklahoma (TRU-OK).

Council Oak (MCN)
Okmulgee Indian Health Center (MCN)
Hillcrest Medical Center-Tulsa
OU Health Family Medicine Clinic
OU Health Tisdale Clinic
OU Health Schusterman Clinic

Community Outreach

Family Medicine Obstetric residents will complete community-based projects designed to improve maternal/child health in local underserved communities, in cooperation with local non-profit organizations such as Tulsa Birth Equality Initiative (TBEI), Strong Tomorrows, Amplify Tulsa and the Take Control Initiative. Family Medicine Obstetric residents will develop and implement their projects during their PGY-2 year and present them to the Family Medicine residency program in April of their PGY-3 year.

Benefits

Access to up-to-date mobile phone
Funds residents to travel to rural/medically-underserved clinic sites
Copy of the Williams Obstetrics 25th Edition 7
Scholarship to attend a CME conference related to obstetrics or maternal health