Teaching

Undergraduate Students:
The 6 week clerkship is given during the third academic year (American program) and fourth academic year (Israel program). The clerkship is conducted in each of 6 academic hospitals affiliated to the university. (Assaf Harofe Medical Center, Rabin Medical Center, Sourasky Medical Center, Sapir Medical Center, Sheba Medical Center and Edith Wolfson Medical Center ). Four courses are given by each affiliated department annually,

As the clerkship may be the only clinical exposure to Obstetrics and Gynecology, the course aims to train students sufficiently, in order to enable them to function well as primary care physicians. In order to facilitate learning the course utilizes varied parameters of education: frontal lectures, bedside teaching, films, video tapes, formal ward rounds, case presentations and informal discussions. During their stay students familiarize themselves with history taking and physical examination including gynecological examinations. The students time is spent rotating through the various stations, including perinatology, gynecology, infertility and oncology units of each department. During this time students spend time with these teams in their ward rounds, clinics and operating sessions. Students are expected to clerk patients on admission, carry out a physical examination and list the investigations they wish to carry out. Students are expected to keep up to date with the patient’s treatment and progress, to present their patients on the teaching rounds, and to go with their patients to any procedures, operations etc.

Each student has time set aside for labour ward routines. While in the labour ward students participate in the morning ward round and are allowed to receive uncomplicated deliveries after having witnessed at least two deliveries under the supervision of a doctor or midwife. Students are also advised to see all the complicated deliveries during their clerkship viz. twin delivery, vacuum extraction, forceps delivery and caesarean section.

Sessions are provided in the gynecology emergency room to allow students to see gynecological emergencies. Students are also expected to assist in the operating rooms with major operations and the minor procedures.

At completion of the clerkship, the performance of the students is evaluated by the medical staff and the students stand for an oral exam. The written exam is taken at a later time. The students are also requested to assess the qualty of their teaching experience by an independent evaluation unit and the results of this evaluation id presented to the teachers.

Postgraduate Education:
The Tel Aviv Postgraduate Program in Obsterics and Gynecology is planned and conducted with collaboration of the Medical Schools in Haifa and Beer Sheba. The objective of the course is to integrate the teaching of Obstetrics and Gynecology with the newest information available, some of which is not yet summarized in the textbooks.

Residents participate in a three-year program of four hours per week. The course includes the basic and clinical science underlying the speciality. This present year, the first semester is devoted to specific subjects in Gynecology, whereas the second semester deals with controversial subjects in Obstetric management.

Seminars are usually given by the leading physicians in the field from all teaching hospitals in Israel. In addition to lectures, there are discussions on various clinical problems. At the end of the academic year, there are video conferences with internationally renowned experts from the U.S. on the main problems of current Obstetrics such as:- pre-term labour, hypertension in pregnancy, diabetes in pregnancy. These sessions provide a broad and deep view of the subject under discussion and include debates between the experts, on the dilemmas involved in the subject under discussion, and their management. There are also video conferences with case presentations and clinical discussions in which the audience can participate actively by asking questions.

Another objective of the course, is to prepare residents for the Part I and II specialist examinations. Hence, there are simulations of the part I and II examinations, in which there is assessment of the residents performance in multiple choice questions, of the type occuring in the part I and II specialist examinations.