What is the typical resident’s OB experience?
Our residents take 12 weeks of dedicated OB training in the R1 and R2 years. In addition, residents rotate on the Family Medicine Service for 18 weeks throughout their three years, during which there is ample OB experience under the guidance of faculty family physicians. Residents also rotate through Columbia Health Center, a Seattle Public Health Department clinic serving indigent patients, providing prenatal care to this at-risk group as well as attending their deliveries. Our residents feel competently trained in management of low-risk obstetrics and appropriate consultation for high-risk OB patients, and the majority of our graduates include OB in their practices.
