OB/GYN Residency
Join the next generation of doctors helping patients lead their best lives.
About us
Devote your future to OB/GYN and you’ll do more than build a career — you’ll guide your patients through nearly every major milestone in their lives. A patient’s relationship with their OB/GYN provider can last from the teens to the senior years, with each stage bringing new opportunities to improve their health and well-being.
During a Geisinger OB/GYN residency, you’ll develop the skills you need for a thriving career through exceptional clinical training alongside a talented and diverse faculty. Here, you’ll contribute directly to family and community health in northeastern and central Pennsylvania through surgical volume, obstetrical experience and subspecialty rotations. This is your chance to make a difference in a small community while preparing for a big future.
But the focus won’t just be on your patients — resident wellness is central to our values. During your obstetrics and gynecology education, you’ll feel supported and included through every step of your training. Our clinical, career and research mentorships place a premium on integrity and respect as you advance to greater responsibility. A Geisinger residency will empower and equip you with the skills you need for a future in academic medicine, fellowship training or private practice.
You’ll also discover a great place to live and work. Danville, where our residency is located, offers a laid-back atmosphere and quick access to endless outdoor recreation — yet it’s just a short trip away from Washington, D.C., New York City and Philadelphia. It’s the perfect place to launch a career that will last a lifetime.
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Program overview
Thursday mornings are the department’s designated conference time. This protected time provides opportunity for grand rounds, morbidity and mortality conference and preop conference. These are held at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
In addition, obstetrics morning report occurs daily at 7 a.m. (6:30 a.m. on Thursdays) and gynecology morning reports occurs at 7 a.m. every Wednesday.
The Geisinger Education and Medical Simulations (GEMS) center is our innovative and state-of-the-art facility on our main campus where we will engage you in regular simulations to augment your educational experience. Our simulation center provides a bounty of experiences targeted toward each year of residency, ranging from working with standardized patients as you learn how to navigate challenging patient encounters to multidisciplinary simulations in obstetric emergencies. Simulations involving laparoscopic, ultrasound, complex perineal laceration repair and operative vaginal delivery are only a few of the many hands-on simulations you will actively engage in on a continual basis.
With the support and resources you need, you’ll successfully participate in scholarly activity over the course of your training. You will accomplish this scholarship through advancing your knowledge in obstetrics and gynecology.
The four components of scholarship include discovery, integration, application and teaching. You will have exposure to each component of scholarly activity and will receive the support and mentorship to complete one scholarship project prior to the conclusion of your residency training.
As a resident, you are required to complete at least one research project by the end of third year.
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Examples of national meeting presentations by our residents
2021: The International Gynecologic Cancer Society
Poster presentation: The use of routine cytology following cervical cancer treatment: a call to discontinue the surveillance pap test.
2020: SMFM Annual Meeting
Gynecological and obstetrics poster presentations:
- Evaluation of fetal growth restriction in pregnancies complicated by buprenorphine therapy
- Comparison of incidence of neonatal growth abnormalities among women with absorptive versus restrictive bariatric surgery
- Incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome in term pregnancies complicated by medication assisted treatment
2020: ACOG Annual Meeting
Poster presentations:
- Pregnancy outcomes in women enrolled in healthy beginnings program
- Will pregnant women accept the anticipated COVID-19 vaccine?
- Determination of postpartum pain medication requirements by body mass index
2019: SMFM Annual Meeting – Las Vegas, NV
Poster presentation: Consider performing three-hour GTT when rescreening for GDM in pregnancy
2018: ACOG Annual Meeting – Austin, TX
Poster presentation: Educating patients on preeclampsia and the effect of different methods of education on patient anxiety
2017: ACOG Annual Meeting – San Diego, CA
Oral presentation: Comparing diagnosis, management, and outcome of fetal growth restriction using an in utero fetal weight reference vs. a live preterm infant growth reference
2017: APGO/CREOG Annual Meeting – Orlando, FL
Quiz Show Format for Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident Education
2017: SGO Annual Meeting – National Harbor, MD
Poster presentation: Time is money- does IV Tylenol decrease time to discharge in patients undergoing robotic surgery for endometrial cancer?
2016: Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology – Annapolis, MD
Presentation: The impact of hepatitis C on postpartum infection
2016: Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Conference – San Antonio, TX
Presentation: The impact of minor trauma on pregnancy and neonatal outcome
2015: International Association of Medical Science Educators – San Diego, CA
Poster presentation: Does an orientation including case based topics to their third-year clinical OB/GYN rotation improve student satisfaction?
2015: Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine – San Diego, CA
Poster presentation: An evaluation of the effect of the MFM obesity protocol on cesarean rates in the Geisinger Health System
2015: Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine – San Diego, CA
Poster presentation: The relationship of umbilical artery Doppler measurement discordance and persistence of abnormal results in fetuses with growth restriction
2015: International Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology – Montreal, Canada
Poster presentation: Short-term growth as a function of abnormal Doppler flow in growth restricted fetuses
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Geisinger is committed to cultivating a culture of diversity and inclusion. We recognize that our team is our most valuable asset and seek to promote an environment that is welcoming of persons of all races, ethnicities, religious beliefs, genders and sexual orientations. At Geisinger, we celebrate life experiences, personal differences, knowledge, innovation and talent. Within Geisinger’s Department of Graduate Medical Education, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion applies diversity principles in all settings and advances the institution’s efforts to create a welcoming and safe environment for all residents and fellows.
Our program values and embraces diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels. We recognize that working toward inclusivity and an equitable environment to meet people’s needs leads to excellence in education, research and providing compassionate care.
Below is a list of resources at Geisinger that promote an inclusive culture and encourage and celebrate diversity. Learn more about diversity and inclusion at Geisinger.
- BOLD (Black Outreach Leadership Development)
- Women LEAD (Legacy, Empowerment, Advocacy, Development)
- G-PRIDE (Geisinger – People Ready for Inclusion, Diversity and Equality)
- LGBTQ resources
- GAIN (Geisinger Ability Inclusivity Network)
- Affinity groups for house staff (under development)
“Groups with shared race, culture, gender, sexual orientation or other identities” as per Keeping Our Promise – Supporting Trainees from Groups That Are Underrepresented in Medicine by Vela et al. NEJM 2021; 385:487-489.
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