For immediate release: August 14, 2007
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School of Medicine to offer Obstetrics Fellowship in Reno
One applicant will be selected for new fellowship aimed at rural communities in 2008
RENO, Nev.— The University of Nevada School of Medicine will soon add a needed fellowship aimed at physicians in rural communities to its current offerings. Beginning in July 2008, the Department of Family and Community Medicine will partner with the Medical Group of Northern Nevada and Renown Medical Center to offer its first obstetrics fellowship in Reno.
“This will be a one-year obstetrics fellowship with emphasis on surgery-assisted deliveries in order to train family physicians to practice the full scope of family medicine in rural settings where obstetricians are generally scarce,” said Catherine McCarthy, M.D. assistant professor within the School of Medicine’s Department of Family and Community Medicine and fellowship director.
The fellowship will be held at the School’s obstetrics clinics within the Family Medicine Clinic, at Renown Medical Center and the Yerington Rural Health Clinic. It will provide advanced training in obstetrics and operational deliveries, such as caesarian and forceps deliveries, beyond the teachings of physicians who have completed the standard residency in family medicine. The emphasis will be on developing skills in operation deliveries and care of patients with complications of delivery.
Program applicants will be screened by a review panel this fall and final selection for the program’s first fellow will be made after the first of the year. Only one fellow will be selected for the first year of the program.
McCarthy, who was a key figure in securing the fellowship’s accreditation with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, has a special interest in obstetrics herself.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been meeting statewide healthcare, educational, and clinical needs since 1969. The School of Medicine encompasses 16 clinical medical education departments, including Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as five nationally-recognized departments within basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. As the largest multi-specialty healthcare focus within the state, the School of Medicine employs more than 185 doctors who both teach and practice medicine throughout Nevada. The school’s statewide faculty physician practice group has a combined 25 different medical specialties with seven physician practice offices located in the Reno-Sparks area and five physician offices located in Las Vegas.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine utilizes a best-practice approach to medicine and is committed to addressing the health needs of Nevada now and in the future. For more information, please visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.
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