Welcome Message from the Chairman:

Welcome to the residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Our goal is to train expert and compassionate physicians conversant with the principles and practice of modern obstetrics and gynecology, and able to assess clinical problems in a systematic and analytical fashion. Ours is a community hospital residency with a scholarly orientation and high academic standards; the training is suitable whether the resident's goal is clinical practice or academic medicine.

We use to advantage the fact that our program is small. It provides a family-like intimacy that nurtures mutual support among residents and close mentoring relationships with faculty. We emphasize the humanistic as well as the technologic aspects of medicine, and strive to provide the best possible care to the women of our surrounding communities; in both regards we are proud of what we have accomplished.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center provides a four-year residency program fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and approved by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Our program strives to provide resident exposure to the breadth and depth of the field. It is a small program (8 categorical and 1 preliminary resident positions) providing an educational intimacy which we feel is very important to our mission. The residents serve almost all of their clinical rotations on the hospital campus. Two exceptions are a two-month PGY-3 rotation in gynecologic oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a one-month PGY-2 rotation in IVF at the Weill-Cornell Medical College. All clinical activities are performed under the supervision of full-time teaching faculty.

Sincerely

Steven R.Inglis M.D.

Chairman, OB/GYN

Outpatient Experience:

All of the residents' ambulatory care experience is provided at the Women's Health Center , a busy 45,000 visits per year facility on the main hospital campus. The center includes an obstetric ultrasound unit, a mammography suite, and a breast health clinic. In addition to the general obstetric and gynecologic clinics, there are subspecialty sessions in reproductive endocrinology, urogynecology, colposcopy and oncology. Residents serve one session per week throughout the residency in their own continuity clinic. During two months out of each year the resident is assigned exclusively to the Women's Health Center. They are exposed to the management of a broad range of outpatient problems in general and subspecialty obstetrics and gynecology and in primary care.

Inpatient Experience:

The Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is a 387-bed acute care facility with an adjacent Nursing Home and Extended Care facility. It is the flagship of the three hospital Medisys Health Network, which also includes Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Brookdale University Medical Center. The population served by JHMC is a multicultural mix representative of the surrounding communities. The hospital performs about 3,000 deliveries per year, with a very high proportion of high-risk patients, and does about 1,500 gynecologic surgical procedures. All gynecologic and obstetric patients are utilized for resident education.

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

On-call System:

A night-float system is in place at JHMC, and residents at each level participate as night-float during two-month-long blocks per year. The hospital has been adhering to New York State work hour regulations for more than a dozen years, and the recently developed ACGME standard presented no adherence difficulty for us. The night-float residents cover both obstetric and gynecologic services. Coverage during holidays and weekends is distributed equitably among the residents in each year.

Educational Program:

The Department is an educational affiliate of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill-Cornell Cornell Medical College . In that regard, several educational programs are shared between the two departments. We are very proud of our Grand Rounds program, which includes nationally and internationally recognized experts who come to Jamaica to share their knowledge. In addition to the formal Grand Rounds program, a number of other didactic activities occur during the course of each week. A typical week of teaching conferences includes the following:

Monday 08:00-09:00 Grand Rounds

09:00-10:00 Obstetric or Gynecologic Complications

12:00-13:00 Meeting with Chairman

Tuesday 08:00-09:00 Reproductive Endocrine Seminar

Wednesday 07:30-08:30 Chairman's Rounds

Thursday 07:00-08:00 Textbook Chapter Review

08:00-09:00 Gynecology Conference

Friday 08:00-09:00 Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference

Departmental Organization:

T he department is organized into several divisions. These include Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Gynecologic Oncology, Reproductive Endocrinology, and Urogynecology/Pelvic Surgery. Fellows from the Weill-Cornell Medical College participate in our high-risk obstetric clinic an in our obstetric ultrasound unit, but there are no fellows interposed between residents and attending physicians in the inpatient service. The Department consists of twenty-five full-time salaried faculty in generalist and subspecialty domains. A list of faculty follows: