title: The fourth-year medical school curriculum: recommendations of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology have proposed a fourth-year medical school curriculum for a student interested in pursuing a residency in obstetrics and gynecology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Faculty members and residents in North Carolina, Illinois, and Michigan were surveyed as to the ideal curriculum that they would recommend for fourth-year students. The committee members representing the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics then reviewed these surveys and proposed a final curriculum.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A core curriculum of general medicine as an acting internship, an intensive care unit rotation, neonatology, and emergency medicine was recommended. Additional courses strongly considered were ambulatory obstetrics-gynecology, acting internship in obstetrics-gynecology, endocrinology, and general surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The committee recommends a curriculum that is broad and balanced in general medical education.
authors.affiliation: Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Washington, D.C.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Walton
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Fenner
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Seltzer
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Wilbanks
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Laube
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Crenshaw
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Messer
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Hale
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006176:Gynecology / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000193:education*