Dear Dr. Rodney:
I am a residency faculty in the Indiana University Family Medicine Residency. I completed my family residency and OB fellowship training at IUFMR. Currently, I am a fellow of the MSU primary care faculty development fellowship program and I am working on a project to rework our OB didactic curriculum for our residents.
As part of the MSU fellowship requirement, I am required to plan a curriculum, have an expert reviewer of the project and also to teach a pilot unit. I have heard about your contributions and passion in promoting OB in family medicine and has extensive experience in education of residents and fellows from Dr. Kelly Arnold who was in our program the year before. Also, when we were setting up our OB fellowship, we have found interesting data from your prior research efforts on OB fellowships, ultrasounds in family medicine residents, etc.
With your expertise in the field, I would like to have the opportunity to ask for your agreement to act as an expert reviewer of the curriculum. I would like to set up a phone appointment with you to further discuss the request. I am available the following times:
1/18 430pm
1/19 1-4pm
1/20 1-4pm
1/23 1-430pm
1/24 1-430pm
The content for review will include a curriculum manual and teaching materials, sample test questions for the pilot unit and a review form for you to complete. I anticipate that it will take around 2 hours of your time and it should be ready to be sent to you electronically (or shipped to you if you prefer) in mid February.
Thank you and looking forward to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Bonnie Wong MBBS
Assistant Professor in Clinical Family Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
WMR Replies:
I am honored. We really need to talk in person. Send me a CV, and the approval process for installation of this curriculum at IU. The rumor was that IU FM had been encouraged to downscale its ambitions in the OB fellowship. The existence of a family medicine obstetrics fellowship year affects the design of such a curriculum.
Political reality is a major determinant in the family medicine obstetrics curriculum. Some of this should be filed for discussion in Ecuador.
Cesarean section is the 3rd tier for family medicine. This is partly described in the fellowship overviews attached. The ultrasound curriculum is essential and we have some curriculum materials and an ipad app which need to be seen in person.
Let me offer you a scholarship grant including cost of a trip to Memphis such that you can see and taste the Memphis curriculum first hand. We are 24/7-365, so the ideal time would be fly Friday, spend Saturday hospital and office, home that night or Sunday am There are many choices depending on fights, and your schedule.
You should consider the distinctions described in our recently published 3 tier system of family medicine obstetrics[Fam Med 2011; 43: 631-7] and some information about the board certification in surgical family medicine obstetrics.
Index--fellowship OB, curriculum
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