Obstetrics & Gynecology Clerkship

The Ob/Gyn rotation can be brutal as overworked residents are not always the nicest. that said, Ob/Gyn is a fairly focused rotation compared to Peds, Medicine and Surgery, and there are good resources available. this is one rotation where your studying will simultaneously prepare you for the wards and the Shelf.

So now to the important stuff, how do you perform well & rock the shelf?

• Downloads for the Wards:
  
• General downloads for the wards - see Clinical Downloads
• Ob/Gyn
• "Ob/Gyn - Guide to Success"
• Labor & Delivery (L&D) Note
  
• Ob/Gyn - Op Notes
• Ob/Gyn - H & PE

• Ob/Gyn PDA programs:
• Pregnancy Wheel (free)
  
• Drugs for Pregnant and Lactating Women - from Skyscape*
• The Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics - from Skyscape*
  
• See PDA essentials for programs you should have for every rotation.

• Books for the Shelf exam:
  
• Blueprints Obstetrics and Gynecology Fourth Edition (Blueprints Series)
  
• An excellent general review with a full practice exam at the end of the book. Read this book 1st.
• This is a standout text in the Blueprints series.
  
• Case Files: Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Read this after completing Blueprints to highlight high-yield info
  
• Easy read w. short vignettes, you are guaranteed to see similar cases on the Shelf exam.
  
• If you have time after getting though the book once, reinforce the content by self-testing with the Q&A at the end of each case.
  
• Obstetrics & Gynecology: PreTest Self-Assessment & Review (Pretest Series)
  • Highly recommended as a Q-book pre-shelf, the actual Shelf questions are not quite as knit-picky but, they are somewhere in between Case Files and Pre-test.
    
  • Questions are the same as those on Access Medicine, so if you have a login you can save yourself the $20 - $30.

*Skyscape progams are availble as free trials, they can also be cracked giving you access to the full version. Use google to figure out how.