OBJECTIVES Outpatient hysteroscopy has become an integral part of postgraduate training in gynecology. It is an operator-dependent procedure, however there are no recommendations regarding total number of performed procedures to reach proficiency. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study aimed to assess the learning curve (LC) using cumulative summation test for learning curve (LC-CUSUM). RESULTS A ...

Johns Hopkins Medical Center, located in Baltimore, Maryland, opened in 1889; its associated medical school opened four years later. Today the hospital, a leading research center, contains many departments, including a fertility center that is renowned for taking on difficult cases that have been rejected by other fertility clinics. The fertility center was founded by physician Georgeanna Seega...

1Associate professor of Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HC-FMUSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Associate professor of Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HC-FMUSP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3Full professor of Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HC-FMUSP, São...

PURPOSE The retention of health care workers in developing countries is a key component to reducing the current health care workforce crisis. The availability of postgraduate medical training in developing countries could be an appropriate adjunctive solution. The authors investigated factors that led obstetrics-gynecology (ob/gyn) residents at a university-based academic training program at th...

Residents play a pivotal role in the education of medical students and junior house staff but are rarely provided with the tools to help them teach effectively. Residents value their roles as teachers and desire training programs in teaching skills. Teaching skills courses for residents have been shown to improve residents' self-confidence and self-assessed use of effective teaching behaviors. ...

Laparoscopic surgery has been shown to have many favorable effects on surgical outcomes and postoperative recovery times. However, the cost of currently available training programs, such as the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS), limits their adoption in developing countries. To address this cost constraint, educators at the Justinian University Hospital (JUH) in Northern Haiti used loc...

FIGO – the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics – is the only organisation that brings together professional societies of obstetricians and gynecologists on a global basis. Founded in 1954, in Geneva, it currently has member societies in 124 countries or territories. Its vision is that women of the world achieve the highest possible standards of physical, mental, reproductive a...

conclusions all of the gynecologic surgeons must be aware of gastrointestinal injuries and should anticipate injury to these organs especially in high-risk patients for decreasing patient morbidity. results the mean age of women was 33.2 ± 7.57 years. 44% of the patients had a history of abdominal scar. 32% of all gi injuries occurred during total abdominal hysterectomy (tah). the small bowel w...

Comprehensive Gynecology is a new and opportune addition to the current selection of textbooks in the area of care of the female patient. The text is the in toto contribution of four distinguished chairmen of departments of obstetrics and gynecology located across the country, who dispense with the usual format of a multi-editor, multi-author compilation. Each is a leader in his own field of in...