Tuesday morning from 7:30am-1:00pm consists of protected time for resident education. A variety of activities may occur during this time. Most often, the morning starts with patient care conference (alternating OB and GYN). We discuss recent complicated cases, rare cases, or outcomes from selected cases.

Grand rounds will occur during this time slot as well.  Speakers may include visiting professors, departmental faculty, or faculty from other departments within the University of Kentucky.

The remainder of the day consists of didactic lectures required by the CREOG residency handbook pertaining to:

• General Obstetrics
• Maternal Fetal Medicine
• General Gynecology
• Ambulatory Gynecology
• Reproductive Endocrinology
• Pediatric Gynecology
• Surgical Skills
• Urogynecology
• Primary Care/Routine Health Maintenance

The chemotherapy conferences is a venue to discuss the current gynecology oncology patients receiving chemotherapy.  Their treatment schedules as well as concomitant radiation therapy are planned with the inpatient and outpatient chemotherapy coordinators.  Residents are responsible for preparing the week's inpatient admission orders for selected patients and reviewing their chemotherapy orders with the gynecology oncology fellow.

The benign gynecology service staffs a pre-operative/ambulatory gynecology clinic and colposcopy/LEEP clinic on Wednesdays. During lunch, provided by the clinic, a predetermined chapter is reviewed and discussed. Topics are chosen from selected operative gynecology, ambulatory gynecology, and other general gynecology texts. Also, the operative schedule is reviewed and discussed among the residents and faculty.

The Maternal Fetal Medicine Department along with the labor and delivery and MFM residents conduct an MFM Conference on Thursday mornings after attending rounds.  The conference consists of a presentation given by acting interns, interns, residents, neonatologists,  or faculty.  The conferences cover a wide range of general obstetric and high risk obstetric topics, i.e. normal labor, intrapartum GBS prophylaxis, PPROM, POL, fetal anomalies, fetal monitoring strip review, infectious diseases in pregnancy, etc.

One Friday per month, the Gynecology residents are able to learn surgical skills in a surgical pig laboratory. Some examples of the surgical skills that are practiced are listed:

• Laparotomy incisions
• Laparoscopic abdominal entry
• Laparoscopic tubaligation
• Laparoscopic salpingectomy
• Laparoscopic hysterectomy
• Bladder, Bowel, Large vessel injury repair
• Ureteral anastomosis and repair
• Bowel resection and anastomosis
• Ileostomy and Colostomy
• Retroperitoneal dissection of large vessels and lymph nodes

Residents and the Central Baptist resident activities director meet each Wednesday morning to discuss interesting and complicated cases. On selected Wednesday's, residents present topics in a Grand Rounds format to the volunteer facutly in attendance.