Educational & Clinical Experiences - Women’s and Pelvic Health Residency

Didactic learning is offered primarily through weekly residency lectures and labs. This overlaps with our ABPTRFE- accredited orthopedic residency program to provide a comprehensive curriculum. Guided research activity is threaded throughout the program with the residents choosing a project based on their interests and available resources.

The program's comprehensive curriculum is developed from and addresses the most recent version of the Description of Residency Practice (DRP). All curriculum components complement each other to enhance the participant's learning. The organization of the program's curriculum ensures congruency between didactic and clinical components. The curriculum provides a structure for the designation of types, lengths and sequencing of learning experiences that ensures the achievement of the program's outcomes.

A Week in the Life of an Ochsner Women’s and Pelvic Health Resident

Clinical Practice

• One-on-one mentoring: 3 hours
• Patient care: 32 hours

Didactic

• Lecture and labs: 5 hours
• Journal club: 30 minutes

Additional Opportunities

• Physician Collaboration: Clinic shadowing and surgery observation
• Research: All residents will participate in the critical inquiry process with opportunities to develop research project designs that can be submitted for IRB approval.
• Continuing education courses

Women’s and Pelvic Health Curriculum Summary