Night Float

The first-year’s responsibilities include:

• Postpartum rounds with the chief resident at 7:15 a.m.
• Obstetric triage
• Management of uncomplicated labor
• Spontaneous vaginal deliveries
• Primary cesarean deliveries
• Medical and surgical management of miscarriages

The second-year’s responsibilities include:

• Coverage of gynecology oncology patients
• Gynecology consults
• Emergency gynecological surgeries, i.e., ectopic pregnancy, ovarian torsion, miscarriages
• Morning rounds with the Gynecology Oncology service, including presentation of patients to the rounding fellow
• Management of subspecialty and generalist inpatient gynecology patients

The third-year’s responsibilities include:

• Management of all patients on labor and delivery, primary management of high-risk patients and maternal transfers from surrounding hospitals
• Management and supervision of triage patients
• Consultant for the emergency department
• Operative vaginal deliveries
• Cesarean deliveries
• Call coverage for antepartum patients
• Presentation of labor and delivery patients during attending rounds each morning at 7:15 a.m.

The chief’s responsibilities include:

• General supervision of all resident activities on labor and delivery and the gynecology service
• Supervision of obstetric triage
• Assisting junior residents during operative vaginal deliveries, cesarean deliveries, and during the surgical treatment of miscarriages
• Performing and assisting the gynecology resident with emergent surgeries
• Management and disposition of obstetric and gynecology consults with the respective resident