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How to improve our training curriculum

Katrín KristjánsdóttirÓmar Sigurvin

+Overview

Training environment

Training requirements

Resident Survey - How are we doing?

How can we improve?

+Landspítali University Hospital, Kvennadeild:Department of Obstetrics and gynecologyReferral center for all Iceland:

Approx. 3500 deliveries/year; 70% of all deliveries, nearly all the preterm.

25 bed gynecological unit. Referral of all gynecological cancers.

University hospitals of a similar size in Nordic countries: Odense, Lund, Trondheim, Turku

+Icelandic requirements for specialist training in Obstetrics and gynecology Four years of Obstetrics and Gynecology

One year of General Surgery

No mention of training abroad

Landspitali University Hospital´s department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( 3500 del./year) offers 2-3 year training posts

Almost all go abroad for further training

RCOG accreditates 2 years of training at Landspitali

+Resident survey - How are we doing?

Sent to 32 ob&gyn residents currently or recently in the Icelandic program

Nine compound questions

Answers 25 = 78%

+How well could you attend scheduled teaching?

+Compared to other specialities, scheduled teaching is...

+Specialist’s interests in teaching

+I’ve done the following number of operations

+I’ve done the following number of operations

Strengths?

Weaknesses?

+How to improve our training curriculum

Identify education Clinical Academic

Protect education time

2 year curriculum

Morbidity and Mortality

Supervision

Evaluation- feedback

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+Educational opportunities

Academic educationLectures, conferences, journal clubs etc.

Simulation training

Clinical educationClinical workObstetric and Gyn cases

Protected educational time!

+2 year curriculum

Our program has resident trainees that stay with us for 2 yearsIdentify educational objectivesCreate an educational curriculum that

rotates biannually

Morbidity and Mortality

Supervision

Evaluation and Feedback