Overview
The Maternal Child Health Fellowship is designed to equip Family Medicine physicians with advanced skills in managing obstetrical patients and newborns. The curriculum includes surgical obstetrical training and comprehensive care throughout prenatal, antenatal, intra-partum, and postpartum stages. Additionally, it covers the assessment and initial management of newborns, including unstable newborns who may require close monitoring, treatment, or assistance from the NICU. The fellowship offers opportunities in collaboration with Banner University Medical Group OB/gyn department, Sun Life Health (a local Community Health Center), and other community partners. Training takes place at Banner - University Medical Center in downtown Phoenix, Banner Ocotillo in Chandler, Banner Casa Grande, and Banner Desert. This is a new program and we will continue to build and refine the curriculum, based on the fellows’ feedback to optimize the experiences.
Fellows follow a curriculum to ensure a well-rounded experience in both maternity and newborn care. Following successful completion, fellows should possess the skills and abilities to work with a rural or underserved community, providing full spectrum family medicine and maternity care to include higher risk prenatal care, vaginal delivery, surgical delivery, management of obstetrical complications, ultrasound, newborn care including newborn resuscitation and stabilization, newborn transport, and newborn level I/II nursery care. These skills are acquired under the supervision of faculty specializing in general Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Neonatal Intensive Care.
Additionally, there are opportunities to participate in outpatient Family Medicine and OB/GYN clinics and possible inpatient moonlighting. Fellows can gain experience through community outreach with Sun Life Health and Wesley Community Health Centers, including mobile OB care services. There are also rural experience opportunities at the Banner Payson Medical Center with Dr. Roberta Matern, Director of the Banner Payson Residency Program.
Experiences
- Call and coverage on a variety of labor and delivery units, including an academic medical center, a large community hospital, a 100-bed community hospital, and a remote sole community hospital adjacent to a tribal community.
- Neonatal resuscitation training at Banner University Medical Center – Phoenix
- Continuity clinic two-four half days per week, averaged, with a mix of prenatal, women’s health, and full spectrum family medicine patients
- OB/prenatal clinic
- Experience with Community Health Centers/FQHC and mobile OB outreach programs
- Longitudinal meeting monthly to review cases, journal articles and assigned reading.
- Clinic and antepartum rounding time with maternal fetal medicine
- Attending the AAFP Maternity Care Conference and/or ASCCP colposcopy course.
Contacts
Rebecca Briggs
Administrative Assistant
Phone: 602-255-7822
Email: @email
Sharry Veres, MD, MHSM
Department Chair for Family, Community and Preventive Medicine
Director for the Maternal-Child Fellowship
Email: @email