Labor and Delivery elective 2.5 Credits/Maximum of 2.5

Catalog description

This course provides students with a 2-week, immersive experience in the inpatient Labor and Delivery/Night Float services at Hershey Medical Center. Students will participate on a greater, more independent level alongside attendings, laborists, residents, and nurse midwives. The student will be expected to fulfill the duties of an intern including but not limited to admitting and following patients in labor, seeing and managing triage patients, participating in vaginal, operative and cesarean deliveries, assisting with tubal ligations, rounding on antepartum or postpartum patients, and triaging postpartum issues. Students will learn how to care for patients with antepartum complications, manage labor and obstetrical complications, and provide post-partum care. This course provides an excellent opportunity to further enhance medical knowledge as well as prepare students for a possible residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology.