Medical students on this rotation will experience the full breadth of Maternal-Fetal Medicine practiced in western North Carolina. Student responsibilities will include managing inpatient antepartum patients and patients on labor and delivery, and participation various clinics including the high risk obstetrics, the MFM outreach, and the prenatal diagnosis clinics. Student will also spend time with various professionals in the prenatal diagnosis clinic, such as maternal-fetal medicine specialists, diagnostic ultra-sonographers, and genetic counselors. They will also participate in the monthly multidisciplinary fetal board conference and take overnight call with the obstetrical team.

During this rotation students will spend most of the time working with the MAHEC OB/GYN faculty and residents in various specialty clinics including the following: obstetrics, high risk obstetrics, gynecology, GYN procedures (Colposcopy/LEEP), reproductive endocrinology, breast, asthma, teen obstetrics and behavior medicine clinics. Call is optional.

Student responsibilities during this elective will include rounding with the oncology team in the mornings and afternoons on hospital patients, assisting on GYN-ONC patient surgeries, clinic time with Oncology attendings, lectures with oncology team regarding specific topics, morning conferences (tumor board. Call is taken one night a week with residents on service.