The calendar year is divided into variable blocks in which residents are assigned to rotating service teams directed by a senior resident. The resident, in consultation with the attending faculty members, is responsible for the patients on his/her service. Responsibility for individual patients is delegated to junior house officers by the senior resident, commensurate with their level of training and competence. On each service, residents are assigned to specific patients (inpatient and outpatient) to provide optimal continuity of care. Service team members at both institutions include junior and senior medical students, full-time and part-time faculty, and nursing staff. Other members of the team are Family Practice and Emergency Medicine residents.

First year residents take rotations between University Health Truman Medical Center and Saint Luke’s Hospital in areas of obstetrics, gynecology, night call, surgical intensive care unit, emergency medicine, and ultrasound. First year residents also have a float rotation where they are placed were needed. After the 1st year, residents are required to have submitted a research proposal to the IRB and be ready to collect their data.

Second year residents rotate between University Health Truman Medical Center, Saint Luke’s Hospital, and Children’s Mercy Hospital. Residents rotate on the Maternal Fetal Medicine service as resident provider for high-risk patients. The resident is exposed to a variety of complicated maternal diseases in a multidisciplinary setting. Residents rotate at Children’s Mercy Hospital with the Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology specialists. Here residents will be exposed to ambulatory visits, hospital consults, surgical and emergency services under the advisement of the Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology fellows and faculty. Their Gynecologic Oncology rotation is at Saint Luke’s Hospital for early exposure to oncology.

Third year residents rotate between University Health Truman Medical Center, University Health Lakewood Medical Center, Saint Luke’s Hospital, and Research Medical Center. Residents are exposed to a number of surgical rotations, including urogynecology, and gynecologic surgery as the sole resident on the service. At Research Medical Center, residents rotate with the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility service where they participate in outpatient care of women with primary and secondary infertility as well as women with disorders such as PCOS, müllerian anomalies, and genetic disorders. Residents also see patients in our new LGBTQ Clinic. Residents participate on benign gynecology where they can fine-tune their surgical skills.

Chief residents rotate between University Health Truman Medical Center, Saint Luke’s Hospital, and Research Medical Center. Chief residents are in charge of their services from scheduling to managing the distribution of cases for their teams. Chief residents also participate in surgical centered rotations. At Saint Luke’s Hospital and Research Medical Center residents have the opportunity to participate in minimally invasive surgery utilizing the robot via dual-console and as main surgeon.

The program also includes Grand Rounds on Thursday mornings at 7:30 am and Didactics on Friday afternoons beginning at 2 pm. Weekly teaching curriculum is also filtered in to rounds at our two primary locations. The didactic schedule includes monthly M&Ms, lectures given by our perinatal, urogynecology, gynecologic and oncology specialists, book club and other educational topics.