PROMOTE OB
PRimary care Obstetrics and Maternal Outcomes Training Enhancement
1. PROMOTE is the advanced obstetrical training track in the Penn Family Medicine Residency program. All residents are required to select a track (Community Medicine, Inpatient, or PROMOTE OB) at the end of intern year.
2. Upon graduation, PROMOTE residents will be equipped to practice pregnancy care in a variety of practice settings including academic, community, urban, and rural. Graduates will be able to provide high quality care to marginalized and vulnerable patient populations in low resource settings, helping to reduce health care disparities in pregnancy care.
3. PROMOTE residents spend additional weeks on the labor floor at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Hospital. There are also PROMOTE 2 and PROMOTE 3 rotations, where residents spend time on the antepartum service, in high-risk clinic, and in the antenatal testing unit to learn advanced obstetrical skills and management.
4. PROMOTE residents can participate in cesarean deliveries, group prenatal care, a rural OB month in New Hampshire, and a longitudinal experience at an FQHC managing prenatal patients.
5. Advanced didactics and FMOB mentorship are benefits of the PROMOTE track. Residents also have opportunities to be involved in OB related QI work, participate in hospital and city based perinatal committees, and get involved in research opportunities related to pregnancy care.
6. PROMOTE residents can obtain procedural skills:
- PRimary care Obstetrics and
- Maternal Outcomes Training Enhancement
- Minimum of 80 vaginal deliveries
- Perineal laceration repair
- Opportunity for assisted vaginal deliveries
- OB ultrasound including dating, AFI/BPP, and basic biometry
- Minimum of 20 cesarean deliveries with opportunity for competency if desired
- Colposcopy
- And more!
7. PROMOTE residents will learn to manage:
- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
- Diabetes in pregnancy
- Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder
- HIV/Hepatitis B/Hepatitis C
- Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes
- Refugee patient care
- LGBTQ+ reproductive care
- 4th Trimester Postpartum Care
- And more!
Please contact the director of the PROMOTE OB track with any additional questions: