A.  Educational Objectives:  In addition to the educational objectives for fellowship program in the Guide to Learning in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, our fellowship program has objectives in line with SACS criteria as related in the following:

SACS Criteria : MFM Fellowship Masters Degree at Mississippi-- 2006

The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Subspecialty Postgraduate Fellowship Program, within which is the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Master of Science Degree Program, is undertaken at the University of Mississippi Medical Center by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 

Department Interim Chairman:  G. Rodney Meeks, MD

MFM Division Director:  James N. Martin, Jr., MD

MFM Fellowship Director:  James A. Bofill, MD

The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program including the Masters Degree is undertaken in the environment of the greater institution’s Expanded Statement of Institutional Purpose:

The University of Mississippi Medical Center unites the interrelated activities of education in the health sciences and accepts responsibility for teaching, research, service and leadership in this field.  Its programs embrace training for physicians, dentists, nurses, and related members of the health care team; graduate medical education; graduate dental education; graduate study in the health sciences, and the delivery of health care in the teaching hospitals and clinics.

 

….The Medical Center’s principal and continuing purpose is to accomplish the interrelated goals of health professional education for Mississippi:

Goal 1:  To teach in a superior manner the art and science of health care to students of exceptional promise and talent;

Goal 2: To provide high quality treatment for all patients using the disciplines and specialties of modern health care;

Goal 3: To lead the way to discoveries which will raise the health level of Mississippians and, indeed, all mankind;

Goal 4:  To foster dedication to life-long learning;

Goal 5: To respond to community needs through continuing education and outreach programs that extend beyond the campus; and

Goal 6: To recruit and train the caliber of faculty necessary to meet these goals.

The goals of the Medical Center are specifically applied to the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Postgraduate and Masters Program with the Program Intended Educational Outcomes as detailed in the following:

• Graduates will demonstrate mastery of fundamental components of the subspecialty of maternal-fetal medicine consistent with University Goals 1 and 2.  Means of Assessment/Criteria for success include: (a) On the American Board of OBGYN (ABOG) written subspecialty examination in maternal-fetal medicine, 75% of graduates will pass on the first attempt within 5 years of fellowship completion; (b) 75% of graduates will also pass the oral ABOG subspecialty examination in maternal-fetal medicine within 6 years of fellowship completion; (c) 100% of graduates will teach at least three medical student and resident teaching conferences or classes on an annual basis; and (d) supervised performance of antenatal diagnostic ultrasound examinations and procedures in the UMC Antenatal Diagnostic Unit for each individual fellow at the conclusion of fellowship will be at the 70% level or higher for number compared to all graduating fellows as computed over the previous three year period of time.

• Graduates will demonstrate the ability to conduct a research project of sufficient importance and quality to merit publication by the professional medical community in obstetrics/gynecology and maternal-fetal medicine consistent with University Goal 3.  Means of Assessment/Criteria for Success include: 100% of graduates will have (a) Oral or Poster Presentation of a first authored project at a major national professional meeting during the fellowship or in the first year post-fellowing; (b) Acceptance for publication of a first authored paper in a major national peer-reviewed professional journal during the fellowship or in the first year post-fellowship; (c) Completion of a thesis project to meet the requirements for the masters degree and the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology oral examination; and (d) Completion of the Miami IRB education basic and annual renewal on-line course (Citiprogram) prior to undertaking any research project and each of the two years thereafter while enrolled in the fellowship program.

• Graduates will demonstrate a dedication to life-long learning consistent with University Goal 4.  Means of Assessment/Criteria for Success includes (a) the accomplishment of American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology certifications in the specialty of general OBGYN and the subspecialty of Maternal-Fetal Medicine within 6 years of fellowship completion and (b) recertification in the specialty and subspecialty thereafter as required by ABOG by at least 90% of actively practicing graduates.

• Graduates will demonstrate a positive response to community needs through continuing education and outreach programs that extend beyond the campus that is consistent with University Goal 5.  Means of Assessment/Criteria for Success is measured by 75% of graduates having presented at least one educational program during fellowship to (a) another department within the university; and (b) an entity outside the university.

• Graduates will have acquired clinical and research skills sufficient to obtain a post-fellowship position in maternal-fetal medicine consistent with University Goal 6.  Means of Assessment/Criteria for Success is measured by: 90% of graduates will be successful in obtaining a faculty or practice position in the subspecialty of maternal-fetal medicine in the first year following graduation.




B.     Fellow Block Diagrams

Supplied are three block diagrams representative of years 1, 2 and 3 within the fellowship program.  Half of each year is clinical, half research with two fellows assigned to each of these areas.  Only one half day of each week is assigned for clinical duties during research blocks.