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DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY
students rotating for eight instead of ten weeks. This was in an effort to achieve the university mandate to return to regular calendar rotation thus leading to completion of the MBBS program at the pre-COVID time. Teaching and learning are carried out by the different services. OBSTETRIC PERINATAL SERVICE This service manages high risk Obstetric cases and accepts referrals from the rest of the island. The Unit provides teaching for postgraduate and undergraduate medical students. Perinatal Audits occur monthly as a joint meeting with the Department of Child Health and annual conference in February of each year is run by the High Risk Obstetric team in collaboration with the Neonatologists & Neonatal Pathologists. The Labour Ward and Postnatal Services are supervised by consultants Drs. Michelle Campbell and Lenroy Bryan, Dr. Cathy Maddan and Dr Leslie Samuels. These consultants also teach undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as mid- wives in training. The Department offers Obstetric Ultrasound Services to both the University Hos- pital and referrals from outside the University. Ultrasound training is spearheaded by Dr. Nadine Johnson and Dr. Tiffany Hunter. OBSTETRICS SKILLS & DRILLS The department offers 2 Emergency Obstetrics Workshops (JOTTIE) each year sponsored by Ferring Pharmaceutical Ltd and offered as a multi-disciplinary training workshop for Anaesthetic Residents, Accident and Emergency Residents, Paediat- ric Residents, Obstetrics & Gynaecology Residents and midwives from University Hospital and Government Hospitals. It takes place in the simulation lab of the School of Nursing. ONCOLOGY UNIT Dr. Taylor & Dr. Bambury are the two trained gynaecological Oncologists in the department and together with Professor Fletcher, Dr. Rattray & Dr. Mitchell & Dr. Medley, form the Gynaecological Oncology Team. They are assisted by Sister Murdoch and her team of Oncology nurses as well as administrative secretary Miss Thompson. Residents rotate through the unit spending 2 months in the Col- poscopy and general Oncology areas. Patients requiring colposcopy in the man- agement of the abnormal cervical smear are seen in the Colposcopy clinics while patients with gynaecological malignancies, are seen in the Oncology clinic both in preparation for surgery and for post-surgery follow-up, post chemotherapy and
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