Family Medicine - Obstetrics Fellowship

Overview

Advanced Obstetric Training for Family Medicine Physicians

The USA Family Medicine Obstetrics Fellowship prepares family physicians to provide comprehensive maternity care across inpatient and outpatient settings. This one-year fellowship offers advanced clinical and procedural training, including cesarean delivery and obstetric ultrasound, with a mission to expand safe, high-quality obstetric care to rural and underserved areas.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate obstetric patients and their fetal monitoring tracings in triage.
• Provide labor management, vaginal delivery, and instrumented deliveries to obstetric patients.
• Perform cesarean sections as primary surgeon with obstetric providers. Surgical skill level at the beginning of the fellowship will determine when the fellow is ready to be the primary surgeon.
• Augment surgical skills by assisting gynecologic surgeries, including tubal ligations, D&Cs and open hysterectomies.
• Perform post-partum tubal ligations on patients.
• Provide daily management of antepartum service patients.
• Perform limited obstetric ultrasound at USA Health Center for Women’s Health and Andalusia Health.
• Teach residents on the obstetric service: triage evaluation, cervical exams, labor management, Pitocin augmentation, IUPC, FSE, vaginal delivery, and postpartum care.
• Present ACOG Practice Bulletins during weekly didactic sessions.
• Completes all mandatory department, educational and hospital requirements.
• Adheres to current Infection Control and Safety Standards.
• Regular and prompt attendance.
• Ability to work schedule as defined and overtime as required.
• Related duties as assigned.

Additional Information

Employees must be in a regular position, working 20 hours or more per week (.50 FTE or greater) to qualify for benefits.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree.
• Completion of a three-year family medicine residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Osteopathic Association (AOA).
• Active Alabama medical license or eligibility to obtain.
• Active board certification or eligibility to obtain.
• Calid Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Registration Number.
• Committment to Alabama Family Practice Rural Health Board’s requirement of one year return of service in a rural Alabama community with fewer than 25,000 citizens OR employment at a family medicine residency that teaches obstetrics to future family medicine physicians.