Curriculum

First Year 

The first year of training is exclusively at UCI Medical Center. It includes the following rotations, dividing the year into 14 blocks of approximately three and a half weeks each: 

• Labor and Delivery Days — 2 blocks 
• Labor and Delivery Nights — 2 blocks 
• FHC-SA (primarily OB/GYN ambulatory urgent care) — 2 blocks 
• GynOnc — 2 blocks 
• Gynecology (inpatient and ED) — 2 blocks 
• Ambulatory (primarily specialty outpatient clinics) — 2 blocks 
• REI — 1 block, first half of the year 
• GYN Night Float — 1 block, second half of the year 

Second Year 

Eight blocks of the second year of training are spent at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, with the remaining six blocks at UCI Medical Center. 

• Long Beach Labor and Delivery days — 2 blocks 
• Long Beach Labor and Delivery nights — 2 blocks 
• Long Beach Women’s Perinatal Group (MFM) — 2 blocks 
• Long Beach GynOnc — 2 blocks 
• URPS (Urogyn) — 2 blocks 
• UCI Antepartum/MFM — 2 blocks 
• GYN Night Float — 1 block, first half of the year 
• Complex Family Planning — 1 block, second half of the year 

Third Year 

The third year adds in the high-volume GYN surgery experience of a Kaiser Permanente rotation and includes a call-free elective block that can be used to achieve any educational goal desired by the resident: 

• Kaiser Permanente Orange County GYN — 2 blocks 
• UCI Labor and Delivery Nights — 2 blocks 
• UCI GynOnc — 2 blocks 
• Long Beach Gynecology (inpatient, outpatient + ED) — 2 blocks 
• FHC-SA Clinic Chief — 2 blocks 
• REI/GYN Float (emergency fatigue/sick coverage and OR float) — 2 blocks 
• Complex Family Planning — 1 block, first half of the year 
• Elective — 1 block, second half of the year 

Fourth Year 

The fourth year of training gives the chief resident a large number of decision-making responsibilities. The fourth-year resident runs all the different services at UCI Medical Center and the resident services at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, including outpatient clinics and inpatient obstetrics, gynecology and gynecologic oncology.  

They also spend two months at Kaiser Permanente Anaheim, which is a GYN rotation with an excellent volume of minimally invasive procedures. 

• Kaiser Permanente Orange County GYN — 2 blocks 
• UCI Labor and Delivery chief — 2 blocks 
• UCI GynOnc chief — 2 blocks 
• UCI Gynecology chief — 2 blocks 
• LB OB chief — 2 blocks 
• LB GYN chief — 2 months 
• Jeopardy (provides interview, conference, and vacation coverage) — 2 months