Web based medical education training can be effective and efficient.
This site uses the science of how students best learn off of computer screens to provide basic training in women’s healthcare. It is designed to deliver the maximum amount of knowledge in the shortest time, consistent with effective immediate learning and long-term retention of that knowledge.
After training in basic knowledge and skills, the coursework shifts from foundational to more in-depth training in complex subjects. Clinical reasoning and decision-making are emphasized at this point, to enhance competency.
These courses are available to everyone, but they are designed for entry-level women’s healthcare providers. All our courses are free.
This course is designed to cover the breadth of women’s healthcare as an introduction to your clinical work in the hospital and ambulatory clinics. On completion of this basic course, you will be well prepared for deepening your knowledge of these issues through further coursework, reading, and engagement in clinical activities.
Your training will require about 5 hours of your time and is best undertaken over a number of days.
This course will introduce you to the many examination and procedural skills needed by practitioners of women’s healthcare.
On successful completion of the Basic Knowledge and Basic Skills courses, you will be ready to begin your clinical experience under supervision in the hospital and ambulatory care center.
This training will require about 3 hours of your time.
14 surgical cases, condensed in time to focus on the important aspects. Ideal for familiarization, you will get a better look than you would if you were scrubbed in and standing beside the patient.
The emphasis in these videos is on surgical anatomy and linking the procedure to the underlying problem the surgery is designed to fix. The course is not designed to replace the educational need to actually scrub in to surgical cases.
Rather, this course will provide good familiarity with the breadth of OB-GYN surgical procedures.
In the Advanced Knowledge course, in-depth training occurs in the most important of women’s healthcare clinical problems. Pathophysiology is explored and the range of clinical presentations are considered.
Come on rounds with me in the hospital. I’ll discuss each of the 24 patients on the ward, why they sought treatment, and what we did to evaluate them. I’ll explain our treatment plans and how those plans played out.
During rounds, I’ll explain the clinical judgements that went into each patient’s clinical management. I’ll review the decision-making process.
I’d like to tell you about 21 patients from my office. I describe their background and why they came to the office. I’ll explain my evaluation of their problem and what I did about the problem. And of course, I’ll let you know how everything settled out in the end.
The emphasis will be on clinical reasoning and judgement. Some of the problems are complex because of confounding medical issues. Sometimes the confounding factor is a social issue.
Telling you these stories will take a little more than an hour.
Understanding the basic science support of clinical medicine is one of the essential foundational pillars of medical student training. This is true in most areas of medicine and particularly true in obstetrics & gynecology. The pathophysiology of women’s healthcare issues is best understood in the context of solid basic science preparation.
APGO (Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics), working with the University of Michigan and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has produced a series of 30 brief videos, designed to link basic science to clinical OB-GYN practice.
Watching and listening to all 30 videos will take a little over 5 hours.
Teaching is a skill most have learned through observing good teachers and sometimes not so good teachers. While these acquired skills may be very good, even a small exposure to what our educational science colleagues have learned can have a large impact on our teaching.
APGO (Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics), working with the Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has produced a series of 10 brief videos, “designed to provide faculty development to enhance teaching effectiveness and engage university and community-based educators as well as provide an ideal solution to enhancing residents-as-teachers programming.”
This course is available to everyone and will take a little over an hour to complete.
This course is designed to cover the breadth of women’s healthcare as an introduction to your clinical work in the hospital and ambulatory clinics. On completion of this basic course, you will be well prepared for deepening your knowledge of these issues through further coursework, reading, and engagement in clinical activities.
This course will introduce you to the many examination and procedural skills needed by practitioners of women’s healthcare.
14 surgical cases, condensed in time to focus on the important aspects. Ideal for familiarization, you will get a better look than you would if you were scrubbed in and standing beside the patient.
Some clinical skills require a higher level of expertise. In this advanced course 11 additional skills are presented.
I’d like to tell you about 21 patients from my office. I describe their background and why they came to the office. I’ll explain my evaluation of their problem and what I did about the problem. And of course, I’ll let you know how everything settled out in the end.
Understanding the basic science support of clinical medicine is one of the essential foundational pillars of medical student training. This is true in most areas of medicine and particularly true in obstetrics & gynecology. The pathophysiology of women’s healthcare issues is best understood in the context of solid basic science preparation.
Teaching is a skill most have learned through observing good teachers and sometimes not so good teachers. While these acquired skills may be very good, even a small exposure to what our educational science colleagues have learned can have a large impact on our teaching.