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.
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.
Walton
L A
LA
Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Washington, D.C.
Fenner
D E
DE
Seltzer
V L
VL
Wilbanks
G D
GD
Laube
D W
DW
Crenshaw
M C
MC
Messer
R H
RH
Hale
R H
RH
D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006176:Gynecology / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000193:education*