Fellowship Programs
Complex Family Planning
Program Details
Curriculum
Our two-year fellowship includes training in family planning clinical care within university, free-standing, urban and rural settings, engagement in the design and performance of clinical research, and participation in international or domestic underserved field work, and teaching junior trainees, including medical students and non-obstetrician-gynecologist residents. Our family planning teaching conferences and meetings include the following:
- Weekly one-hour conference with faculty, fellows, residents and students with formal family planning presentations, case discussion and journal club.
- Twice monthly fellow-only educational sessions based on the following textbooks: Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy; Speroff & Darney’s Clinical Guide to Contraception; and Contraception for Medically Challenging Patients.
- Twice a year book club on family planning books in popular culture. Previous selections include Birth of the Pill, One Child, Absolute Convictions, and Choice Words.
- Twice monthly fellow-only educational sessions with the Director on a topic of the fellows' choosing.
- Twice monthly research-in-progress meetings.
- Twice monthly business meetings.
- Formal mentoring meetings once per month.
- Fellows are supported to complete advanced education in epidemiology, statistics, and research design through classes available at UC Davis, online, and other fellowship resources.
Family Planning Clinical Care
UC Davis is a high-volume referral center for rural Northern California and the medically underserved Central Valley. The fellow will receive high volume training in first trimester abortion procedures at rural and urban freestanding and hospital-based clinics including manual and electric vacuum aspiration and medical abortions. The fellow will also receive specialized training in managing pregnancies of unknown locations, early pregnancy loss, and unusual and abnormal early pregnancies. The fellow will become proficient in second trimester abortions by dilation and evacuation (D&E) to California’s legal gestational age limit within our institution and will rotate at the Southwest Women’s Options Center in New Mexico for gestational age training beyond that limit. The fellow will be specially trained in complex contraceptive counseling, difficult IUD insertion and removal, and implant insertion and difficult removal at our Center of Excellence. The fellow will gain expertise in providing contraceptive counseling to women with complicated medical conditions in our collaborative clinics in the neurology and pediatric hematology-oncology offices. The fellow will also serve as an inpatient consultant for hospitalist services such as the transplant team, and as an outpatient consultant to primary care physicians and general obstetrician/gynecologists under the supervision of the UC Davis Family Planning Faculty. Fellows take Family Planning home call once a week and one weekend a month with faculty-backup, and two Gynecology home calls each month. Fellows in their second year have their own private family planning and gynecology clinic, with opportunity for gynecologic surgery.
Clinical care includes regular interactions with residents and students in the outpatient clinic and operating room settings. Fellows will teach in these clinical settings and supervise residents and students through procedures.