Rotations

Rotation Schedule

The sequence of rotations has been planned to ensure that residents have increasing responsibility and autonomy in patient management. The rotations are divided into 4-week blocks.

  • The PGY-1 year serves as an introduction to obstetrics and gynecology. Residents spend 4 weeks off-service, and apart from their family planning experiences, spend their time on the Stanford campus.
  • The PGY-2 year continues to build on the basics with introduction of more subspecialties and increased operative responsibilities/experiences.
  • The PGY-3 year includes a call-free selective where residents are encouraged to be creative and develop experiences to meet their individual professional goals. There is an extramural rotation at El Camino Hospital, a private community hospital that complements the extensive experience in benign gynecologic surgery at Stanford.
  • The PGY-4 year is spent almost entirely at Stanford with the resident functioning as the chief of the respective clinical services. Another selective block allows residents the opportunity to finalize their residency portfolio.

PGY-1

PGY-2

PGY-3

PGY-4

Obstetrics
8 weeks

Obstetrics
8 weeks

Jeopardy/Gyn
8 weeks

Obstetrics 
8 weeks

OB Night Float
8 weeks

OB Night Float^^
4 weeks

Gyn Night Float
8 weeks

OB Night Float
8 weeks

MFM
4 weeks

MFM
4 weeks

MFM
8 weeks

Gyn
8 weeks

Gyn
8 weeks

Gyn
4 weeks

FP*
4 weeks

Advanced Gyn†
8 weeks

Benign Gynecology**
8 weeks

UroGyn
4 weeks

UroGyn^^
4 weeks

MIGS
8 weeks

Gyn Oncology
8 weeks

Gyn Oncology
8 weeks

Gyn Oncology
4 weeks

Gyn Oncology^^
4 weeks

ED^^
2 weeks

MIGS 
8 weeks

El Camino/Gyn
8 weeks

Selective
4 weeks

SICU^^
2 weeks

REI
4 weeks

Selective
4 weeks

 

 

Peds Gyn^
4 weeks

 

 

*includes family planning at Planned Parenthood
**includes Gyn clinic, MFM clinic, primary care, Planned Parenthood, OB ultrasound, Sexual Medicine, REI
^includes Peds Gyn, Peds Transgender clinic and Peds Gyn OR
^^during the first half of the year only
†Gyn surgery at San Mateo County, Outpatient procedure clinic (colpo, LEEP, etc.), Vulvar derm clinic

Continuity Clinic

Stanford offers a true continuity clinic experience where residents are identified as the primary care giver for the same group of patients throughout their residency. Residents are encouraged to manage their own patients as If they were in their own practice group of seven residents. Interns begin clinics in September of their PGY1 year.

Family Planning

We consider family planning – provision of contraception and abortion – an essential aspect of comprehensive women’s reproductive healthcare. ACGME requires abortion training be integrated into residency training programs. As such, family planning training is integrated into clinical rotations starting in the first year. Through our Ryan Program, our residents reach competency in first trimester abortion by end of intern year with exposure to second trimester abortion starting in the first year and throughout the four years.