Education

UTMB’s School of Medicine boasts the ninth largest medical enrollment in the country and graduates approximately 230 physicians per year. Obstetrics & Gynecology is one of the original departments of the Medical Branch, providing over 100 years of specialty training. The department’s 4-year residency program offers training in obstetrics and gynecology via didactic teaching, simulation, and surgical training, clinical experience, and research opportunities. Our graduates pass the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology examinations and successfully match into subspecialty fellowship programs at a high rate. UTMB’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship program provides additional clinical training in high-risk obstetrics and clinical and basic science research, with the option of earning a PhD.

Our medical doctors and scientists extend their learning on a continual basis through participation in national and international professional organizations, collaboration with colleagues, and research. The department also holds grants to support 2 formal training programs for faculty, the Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) and Building Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health (BIRCH) programs.

The Brand New, State-oF-the-Art Medical Education Center includes: 

• 77 Bed Simulated Hospital
• 5 Floors of Cutting-Edge Simulation Facilities
• The 5th floor is equipped with 2 simulated operating rooms, 10 ICU rooms, multiple control and monitoring rooms and 2 debriefing rooms
• The 4th floor hosts our standardized patient program and has 16 patient exam rooms, 3 training rooms, 3 debriefing rooms and a monitoring & control room
• The 3rd floor has 16 individual patient rooms covering adult, child, infant and maternity simulations. This floor also has a large flexible space that can be set up as a PACU or an OB suite, as well as 2 large debriefing rooms, 2 small debriefing and 1 monitoring & control room
• The 2nd floor has 3 large skills labs offering a total of 30 physical examination spaces, a virtual skills lab, 3 debriefing rooms and 1 monitoring & control room
• The HEC hosts numerous task training pieces of equipment as well as over 60 low, mid and high-fidelity manikins for creating real-life simulations
• The control rooms on each floor allow seamless operation of manikins while remotely being able to view and record simulations through integrated software