Department of Family and Social Medicine

Family-Centered Maternity Care Fellowship

Goal

Family Centered Maternity Care fellows provide and teach appropriate and competent prenatal, Intrapartum, postpartum, newborn and interconception care for patients living with health inequities.

Objectives

The fellowship enables residents to:

1. Provide prenatal care

  • Provide direct patient care
  • Supervise and teach residents in family medicine prenatal clinic
  • Facilitate group prenatal care using the Centering Pregnancy model

2. Participate in prenatal quality care review

3. Explore and develop teaching materials on social risks in pregnancy:

  • Adolescence
  • Poverty
  • Homelessness
  • Chronic mental disorders
  • Drug use
  • Alcohol use
  • Tobacco use

4. Recognize and treat gestational diabetes

5. Stabilize and treat hospitalized pregnant patients

6. Recognize obstetrical conditions requiring consultation

7. Provide Intrapartum care

  • Demonstrate competency in electronic fetal monitoring through the Gnosis online course
  • Insert 5 intrauterine pressure catheters
  • Apply 5 Fetal scalp electrodes
  • Perform 50 vaginal deliveries
  • Develop competency in labor management
  • Attain competency in vacuum deliveries
  • Serve as first assistant in 10 cesarean sections

8. Provide and supervise post-partum care for vaginal and operative delivery patients

9. Assist breastfeeding patients

10. Attain competency in basic obstetrical ultrasound

11. Counsel obstetric patients regarding genetic risk

12. Provide hospital newborn care

  • Breastfeeding support
  • Perform circumcisions
  • Resuscitate distressed newborns
  • Provide ongoing care to hospitalized newborns

13. Maintain and expand family practice clinical skills

14. Develop leadership and teaching skills

15. Maintain collegial working relationships between nurses, attending and residents on labor and delivery

RW:9/2018