OCOM 7020 - Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Correlate appropriate antenatal care with lower maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.
• Correlate appropriate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of complications during pregnancy with lower maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.
• Correlate breastfeeding with outcomes for mothers, infants, and children.
• Ensure awareness of the fundamentals of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of complications during pregnancy.
• Ensure awareness of women’s varied perspectives on and experiences with birth including natural childbirth, medicated childbirth, cesarean section, and pregnancy loss.
• Ensure understanding of how to facilitate normal labor.
• Ensure understanding of the variations in human sexuality.
• Ensure understanding of common gynecologic procedures and surgery.
• Ensure understanding of contraception and options in reproductive choice.
• Ensure understanding of gynecologic malignancies.
• Ensure understanding of how to monitor normal labor and delivery as well as complications associated with labor and delivery.
• Ensure understanding of lactation physiology and clinical aspects of breastfeeding management.
• Ensure understanding of the etiology and psychosocial aspects of infertility.
• Ensure understanding of the evaluation of abnormal bleeding.
• Ensure understanding of the fundamentals of antenatal care.
• Ensure understanding of the fundamentals of postpartum care.
• Ensure understanding of the menstrual cycle, menstrual irregularities, and how culture affects menarche and menopause.