St. Anthony North Hospital

Maternal-Child Fellowship

Family medicine graduates will train in advanced obstetrical skills during this one-year fellowship in maternal-child health.

Avista Adventist Hospital and St. Anthony North Health Campus are partnering to offer a one-year fellowship in maternal-child health. The program focuses on preparing family medicine graduates in advanced obstetrical skills: including surgical obstetrics, high-risk prenatal care, gynecological procedures, and newborn resuscitation.

Contact

Ellie Chaparro, Fellowship Coordinator

14300 Orchard Parkway

Westminster, CO 80031

Phone: 720-627-4045

Fax: 720-627-0173

Program Summary:

Avista Adventist Hospital and St. Anthony North Health Campus are partnering to offer a one-year fellowship in maternal-child health.
This program focuses on training.

Throughout the year, fellows will spend time in three major areas:

Avista Adventist Hospital Labor and Delivery Deck

Fellows will focus on managing laboring patients, performing c-sections and tubal ligations. The fellows work primarily with Clinica Campesina patients, a federally qualified health center with a majority Spanish speaking population. Fellows work under the direct supervision of obstetrics (OB) attendings and spend time as an independent provider with on-call OB support.

St. Anthony North Health Campus

Fellows will focus on taking part in a high-risk OB/GYN clinic performing many procedures, including c-sections, surgeries (abdominal hysterectomy, D&C, LEEP, cold knife cone), and neonatal resuscitation. Fellows will also work on-call as the attending for medicine/OB service.

Other experiences

Attending the medicine/OB service supervising residents (five weeks per year).
Neonatal resuscitation training at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, including intubation experience with pediatric anesthesiology.
Continuity clinic two to three half days per week, with a mix of prenatal, women’s health, and full spectrum family medicine patients.
Longitudinal one to two meetings per month to review cases, journal articles and assigned reading.
Rotating with maternal fetal medicine one to two days per month.
Attending the AAFP Maternal Care Conference.
In-hospital calls are approximately one night per week and two weekends per month. Home “c-section call” is approximately Q2, although this is flexible based on the fellow’s c-section numbers.

Additional Program Details

Clearly stated goals for practice that require advanced obstetrical training.
Adequate experience managing low risk normal spontaneous vaginal delivery to function independently with minimal supervision on the labor deck.
Adequate experience to supervise residents on labor and delivery and inpatient medicine.

Applications are accepted from all graduates of ACGME/AOA-accredited family medicine programs. Interested Family Medicine PGY-3 applicants should mail, fax, or email their CV, cover letter, procedure log and three letters of recommendation (1 LOR should be from your program director) to: