OB-GYN Residency
Faculty

The faculty in the residency program at the primary institutions (WRAMC and WRNMMC) consists of generalist Obstetrics and Gynecology faculty as well as faculty from all 4 subspecialties. All faculty are fully invested in the program; there are no “part-time” faculty. The generalist OB/GYN faculty have areas of special interest and expertise in addition to the obvious special interests of the subspecialist faculty. All faculty members are fully involved in education and supervision. Each Division, or Service, also has a faculty member as Director or Chief, who is in charge of completing resident evaluations, and works directly with the Program Director and Assistant Program Directors in curriculum review and development, and in preparation of the objectives for individual rotations. In addition to physician faculty, Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwives also provide educational resources for the program.

The program arrangement, and affiliations with local and distant facilities, provides for unique opportunities by including faculty from these other institutions. The program’s extended faculty include personnel assigned to NIH, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and USUHS. The faculty at DeWitt Army Community Hospital (Dewitt), Inova Fairfax Hospital, Washington Hospital Center, and Womack Army Community Hospital (WAMC), provide an invaluable resource for the residents during these rotations. The faculty at USUHS, which includes the Chair, Program Director, Director of Continuing Medical Education, Director of Clinical Clerkships, are considered integral members of the residency program faculty, as well as having significant roles in the university. By way of the rotations at Inova Fairfax, DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Washington Hospital Center, and Womack Army Community Hospital, the extended faculty also includes staff obstetricians/gynecologists and subspecialists at these facilities. The local and extended faculty certainly enhance the residents’ education by adding unique foci of interest and expertise. Indeed, as described in the Research section, many of the faculty are widely recognized researchers, with extensive lists of presentations and publications, and many are research grant recipients. A representative bibliography (by no means complete) of recent publications by various faculty members is available. Of note, nearly all of the publications include residents.

Many of the faculty members add additional expertise by being involved in numerous other activities, both at the local level (hospitals and USUHS) and at the regional and national levels. As described, one of the faculty is a former member of the CREOG Education Committee; this faculty member is also a national District officer in ACOG. Current faculty serve, or have served, on the Editorial Board of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, which is the obstetrics and gynecology journal with the largest circulation worldwide. One former faculty member was a member of the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Obstetrics and Gynecology, which is a phenomenal accomplishment. Another faculty member was the President of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO), which is the leading organization in the education of medical students in women’s health. Faculty members also serve as principal Investigators in the Gynecologic Oncology Group, which is a national research organization for issues related to gynecologic malignancies. The local faculty also includes 4 Oral Examiners for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, which is truly outstanding representation. Current faculty have served as consultants to the respective services’ Surgeons General for Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health. These faculty members are extensively involved in women’s health care issues in the respective services, and serve as spokespersons for all OB/GYN providers in their respective services worldwide. And this is only a representative list! This extensive involvement in other activities by many of the faculty unquestionably adds to the program’s reputation, as well as contributing further expertise to the education and career guidance for the residents.

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Mentorship/Advisors Prior to the start of the PGY-1 year, a faculty member is “assigned” to each resident, to serve as an advisor and mentor. Residents are free to choose a different faculty to serve as an advisor and mentor at any time during their training; the purpose of this preliminary “assignment” is so that a resident had an identified advisor from the very start of his or her residency. Many residents “identify” with more than one faculty member, based on shared interests or hobbies, professional interests, or research areas of focus. Interaction with multiple faculty members enhances the team concept. Top