Protected Educational Conference Time

Five hours of protected conference time per week achieves the goals of the CREOG core curriculum. Each workday begins with service rounds followed by a protected educational session attended by all residents and most of the faculty members.

Educational Fund

For independent educational activities, $1,000 is provided for PGY-1, and $2,000 for PGY-2, PGY-3, and PGY-4. Residents are encouraged to present research at National meetings.

Library and Communication Services

Access to a comprehensive, multisource learning facility with 10,000 volumes, 200 periodicals, and a computerized research center with multiple databases, as well as a computer link to smaller clinical collections, are available. Librarians are also available to perform literature reviews and organize research events.

Facilities

For obstetrics (in The Beginnings Maternity Center): Complete LDR suites, a postpartum nursing unit and nursery, a neonatal intensive care nursery, surgical procedure rooms, and an intensive care/recovery area. You will also have experiences with genetic counseling in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and in our associated Invitro Fertilization Clinic and Laboratory.

For gynecology patients: inpatient services at Reading Hospital include comprehensive diagnostic and treatment modalities such as:

  • Surgical services
  • Oncology services
  • Urogynecology
  • Minimally-invasive surgical services
  • Reproductive endocrinology
  • Robotic services surgical

Additional surgical experience (both inpatient and outpatient) includes microsurgery, laser surgery, video laser, colposcopy, urethroscopy, hysteroscopy, and pelivscopy. Ambulatory procedures and skills are practiced in the outpatient services department, at private physician practices on campus, and in our maternal-fetal medicine center.

Featured Facilities

  • Resident workstation
  • Resident lounge
  • Resident library
  • On-call rooms
  • Lactation room
  • On-site gym and access to Drexel University College of Medicine gym
  • Simulation lab with Noelle Birthing Simulator and full range of surgical simulation equipment and curriculum