• About Our Department
  • Administration
  • Our History
  • Professionalism Initiatives
  • Opportunities for Giving
  • News and Events
• Faculty
• Divisions
  • General Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Helen O. Dickens Center for Women
  • Maternal Fetal Medicine
  • Penn Center for Advanced Gynecologic Surgery
  • Penn Family Planning & Pregnancy Loss Center
  • Penn Health for Women at Pennsylvania Hospital
  • Penn Health for Women at Radnor
  • Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
  • Reproductive Genetics
  • Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery
• Education
  • Residency
    • - Curriculum and Clinical Experience
    • - Educational Conferences
    • - Research
    • - Current Residents
    • - How to Apply
  • Fellowships
    • - Family Planning
    • - Gynecologic Oncology
    • - Maternal Fetal Medicine
    • - Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
    • - Urogynecology
  • Medical Students
    • - Core Clinical Clerkship
    • - Core Didactics
    • - Elective Courses
    • - Women's Health Certificate Program
  • Simulation and Team Training
  • Conferences
• Career Development
  • Women's Reproductive Health Research
  • Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health
• Patient Care
• Research
  • Center for Research in Reproduction and Women's Health
  • Maternal and Child Health Research Program
  • Women's Health Clinical Research Center
  • The Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center
    • - Ovarian Cancer
    • - Translational Research
    • - Clinical Research
  • Research in Human Behavior and Reproduction Program
    • - PMS Program
  • Clinical Research Trials

The Core Curriculum is covered in Problem Based Learning (PBL) sessions, Case Management Conferences, Lectures and Workshops. For PBLs and case conferences, clinical situations have been chosen to stimulate a discussion of the important issues surrounding each case and to promote information synthesis, decision-making and problem-solving. Students are expected to research the clinical problems for the PBL prior to class and are encouraged to participate. There are some topics that you are responsible for but are designated for self-study in the syllabus.

Interdisciplinary sessions on adolescent health care and domestic abuse will be held with Pediatrics.

Every student is required to attend the video lecture and gynecology exam workshop on the first day of the rotation. Basic skill workshops on suturing and knot tying, foley insertion, venipuncture and spontaneous vaginal delivery are held at the Penn Clinical Simulation Center at Rittenhouse.

Attendance at all sessions is mandatory.

Problem based learning sessions, lecture objectives and notes are available in the syllabus. In addition, power point presentations are available for the following sessions:

• Preventive Care - More than Just a Pap Smear
• Family Planning Methods
• Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation
• Managing the Breastfeeding Woman
• Pelvic Pain - Dysmenorrhea and Endometriosis
• Female Infertility
• Maternal Physiology
• Prenatal Genetics
• Problem Based Learning
• Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
• Urinary Incontinence in Women

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Helpful Links:

• Core Clinical Clerkship Syllabus 2009
• Didactic Schedule 2009 - (THIS SCHEDULE IS TENTATIVE)
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology
• Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics
• Visiting Student Program
• Penn Clinical Simulation Center at Rittenhouse