Family Planning Fellowship Clinical responsibilities of the Fellows are directed towards providing comprehensive contraception and abortion services. This includes working at the Columbia University Medical Center Family Planning Clinic and our hospital-based abortion service. Fellows learn to provide medical abortion and early surgical abortion in a clinic setting, and second trimester abortion in an operating room setting. Other responsibilities include working with the Maternal Fetal Medicine Service to provide surgical termination of pregnancy for medically complicated in-patients and staffing the gynecologic surgery service for three weeks during the first year. No obstetrical duties are expected. Specific clinical activities vary according to the interests of each fellow, and according to opportunities in the department. Fellows also have many opportunities to participate in meetings and activities sponsored by national and international agencies headquartered in New York that focus on reproductive health issues. Fellows all participate in research conducted by the Division. With close mentorship, Fellows are expected to initiate and complete a project which may involve conduct of a clinical trial or secondary data analysis of another Divisional project. The Fellowship Director, Dr. Westhoff, and the Associate Fellowship director, Dr. Davis, are both available for close supervision, mentoring and support throughout the research process. The Fellows who have completed the program have accepted positions at academic medical centers and are actively providing abortion and contraception services. Activities of graduated Fellows also include conducting clinical research funded by the NIH and other sources and starting Ryan residency training programs. For information on other Family Planning Fellowships, and for an application, please visit www.familyplanningfellowship.org.
We foster in our residents a commitment to reproductive choice and fully train them as care providers. Residents currently spend about 8 weeks of their first year rotating through our division. They provide contraceptive care and counseling to patients in the family planning clinic, as well as learn and perform first trimester pregnancy terminations. There is opportunity for surgical sterilization and second-trimester termination experience during the general gynecology rotations. In addition to Columbia University Medical Center residents, we offer a rotation in family planning to visiting residents from other New York City hospitals, whose programs lack these training opportunities.
We provide education to the medical students during all four years of study at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Medical students receive lectures from our faculty in the first two years, and have the opportunity for an optional selective experience in the first year. All medical students participate in small-group learning experience during the third-year OB/GYN rotation, with an opportunity for clinical participation. We offer an elective in reproductive health to fourth-year medical students from all AAMC-accredited medical schools, to gain more experience in both the counseling and provision of family planning services. There are also opportunities for summer research projects, all of which lead to publication. For more information, please call (212) 305-4805. Many students pursuing graduate degrees in public health work as research assistants for our clinical studies. Masters and Doctoral candidates have carried out thesis and dissertation research through our Division. For more information about the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, visit: http://mailman.hs.columbia.edu. |
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The Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City was established in 1997. Requirements include an MD or DO degree and graduation from an accredited U.S. residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology or other specialty if appropriate. Fellows complete a two-year clinical and research program which includes coursework towards a Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH) or a Masters of Science (MSc) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. International experiences in family planning and abortion are available. 
