Course Number: FMME____ /ACSM 401-54

Course Title: Obstetrics in Family Medicine – Greensboro AHEC

Faculty: Bert Fields, MD

Prerequisites: Completion of Third-Year Family Medicine Clerkship

Offered: Blocks 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11 (Availability depends on Selective ACSM 401-45)

Min. Enrollment: Max. Enrollment: 1 per block

Duration: 1 elective period

Meeting Time: 8:00 a.m.

Credit Hours: 6

Meeting Place: Greensboro AHEC/Family Practice Center

Learning Objectives: At the end of the course students will be able to:
• Develop advanced examination skills for common outpatient medical problems.
• Learn to evaluate the patient in labor.
• Gain some experience in management and delivery of uncomplicated obstetrics
• Learn first degree and second-degree episiotomy repair.
• Learn basic interpretation of fetal monitoring
• Participate in resident teaching conferences

Learning Activities: The course should appeal to any student interested in family medicine who is
contemplating pursuit of obstetrics in their practice or later completing a family
medicine/obstetrics fellowship. The student is closely supervised by obstetric
junior faculty (fellows). They participate in labor and delivery, obstetrics call,
prepartum and postpartum rounds and obstetrics teaching conferences. This
component comprises about 60% of the time. The second core component
centers around work within the family medicine center. This includes walk-in
clinics, prenatal clinics, and working directly in continuity clinics of residents and
faculty. This comprises 40% of student time.