Program Overview
The four year residency consists of intensive clinical training in general obstetrics and gynecology and in all of the subspecialties.
Program Aims
Aim 1: Promote the highest quality health care delivery using evidence-based practice to diverse patient population across the life span
Our goal is to teach our residents to respectfully care for a very ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group. Residents have an ample opportunity to learn about a wide array of disease processes on both ends of the acuity spectrum and learn about health disparities and promote justice. Board rounds, tumor board, and journal clubs occur regularly with an evidence-based focus. Protected Wednesday afternoon didactics include M&M, Grand Rounds and Ob/Gyn as Teachers sessions.
Our program is committed to Culture and Justice.
A deliberate and concerted effort has been made to sustain the diversity of our residency program. We educate our faculty and residents on the value and importance of a diverse training program for us and our patients, understanding our implicit biases, and advocacy. Our department’s Ob/Gyn URM Group includes our underrepresented minority (URiM) faculty, fellows and residents. This group meets quarterly, works on recruitment and retention of underrepresented faculty and has created a mentor network for our junior faculty. A senior resident is selected as the Health Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead and represents their peers on the Resident Leadership Council. The department’s Culture and Justice Quorum is a collaboration of departmental faculty, trainees and staff working on initiatives to continually move us forward.
Aim 2: Develop leaders in obstetrics and gynecology
Our program trains future leaders in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. We provide opportunities and support for residents to perform and present research, improve their teaching, participate in global health and advocacy electives, engage in resident reporter programs and fill ACOG leadership roles.
Our residents take on initiatives through the Resident Leadership Council as leads in education, diversity, equity & inclusion, quality improvement & patient safety, advocacy & health policy, and wellness.
Aim 3: Provide balanced education in obstetrics and gynecology with ample exposure to every sub-specialty
The four year residency consists of intensive clinical training in general obstetrics and gynecology, including formal training in all five recognized subspecialties: gynecologic oncology, maternal fetal medicine, reproductive endocrinology & infertility, urogynecology and reconstructive surgery and complex family planning. Additionally, residents receive extensive training in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and pediatric and adolescent gynecology.
We continually reassess the clinical curriculum for the best available opportunities for our learners. With California's only In-hospital Birth Center, our residents learn the process of physiologic birth and non-pharmacologic labor support and then provide consultative services to our midwife colleagues. Integral to our program is this respectful, interdisciplinary model of training and care.
Our program is designed to teach the breadth and depth of obstetrics and gynecology, while changing to meet the needs of the learners.
About our services
Outpatient Service
Resident continuity clinics are scheduled every day of the week at our Hillcrest location.
Inpatient Services
The obstetric service at the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla has 24-hour, full-time anesthesia coverage to the obstetrical service and full-time coverage by maternal fetal medicine, as well as in- and outpatient lactation services. In addition, there is a birth center where low risk midwifery births take place.
Our Hillcrest Campus is home to an 8 bed labor and delivery unit under the supervision of our hospitalists.