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It is with great pride and pleasure that I invite you to consider specialty training in obstetrics and gynecology here at UCI.
As an alumna of the program, I can attest firsthand to the very high-quality training our residents receive and the strong, team-oriented culture that supports them.
Our program offers comprehensive training in all areas of Obstetrics and Gynecology. We work closely with our four fellowship programs to provide exceptional opportunities to explore and gain competence in all areas of our specialty:
Our graduates have consistently divided approximately in half in choosing to pursue a fellowship or enter general practice, and are exceptionally well prepared to do either.
Our educational culture is grounded in core beliefs in the critical importance of graduated autonomy and problem-based learning, allowing trainees to safely stretch their comfort zones and develop tools that will allow them to identify and attack any type of problem in their future careers.
We pride ourselves on excellence in patient care and education, and members of our department at every level are motivated to support each other in these goals. Through close mentorship with faculty and the program’s responsiveness to resident feedback, residents are engaged in optimizing their own educational experience.
Our affiliated sites, which include high-volume Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente and Planned Parenthood, are thoughtfully selected to augment the tertiary care patient population and academic opportunities available here at UC Irvine. Faculty from these sites are active members of our academic community.
Our locations in north Orange County and Long Beach provide natural diversity in our patient populations and extensive opportunity to work with underserved and vulnerable patient populations.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Reggie, our program coordinator.
Laura E. Fitzmaurice
Associate Clinical Professor
Residency Program Director
Division of OB/GYN Hospitalists
Phone: 714-456-8224
lfitzmau@hs.uci.edu
Reggie Melendez
Residency Program Coordinator
Phone: 714-456-8224
Fax: 714-456-8360
reginm1@hs.uci.edu
Due to the large number of applications we receive, in previous years, only about one in five applicants has been offered an interview.
Once selected for an interview, we will do our best to accommodate requests for interview dates. We accommodate requests on a first-come, first-served basis
The UCI Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency Program is devoted to the pursuit of diversity, equity, and an inclusive learning environment, including a holistic, fair, and objective application review process.
In pursuit of this goal, we are requesting that all applicants complete an online suite of assessments (Altus Suite), to assist with our selection process for the 2022/23 application cycle. Thanks to advocacy and support from APGO/CREOG and Altus, these assessments are available at no financial cost to OB/GYN residency program applicants this cycle.
Altus Suite is a standardized, three-part online assessment of non-cognitive skills, interpersonal characteristics, and personal values and priorities that we believe are important for successful residents of our program. Altus Suite will complement the other tools that we use for applicant review and evaluation. In implementing Altus Suite, we are trying to further enhance fairness and objectivity in our selection process.
Altus Suite consists of:
You will register for Altus Suite for CSP-20101 - U.S. Graduate Medical Education
Access www.TakeAltus.com to learn more about the three-part assessment, important dates and requirements, and to create your account.
We will interview for seven PGY-1 positions to start the 2023-2024 academic year.
The interview dates are as follows (all Fridays):
All interviews will be conducted virtually on the Thalamus platform
On his/her interview date, each applicant will sign up for either a morning (AM) or an afternoon (PM) session. All times listed are in Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Schedule
For all applicants (AM and PM), the following are OPTIONAL:
For applicants interviewing in the AM session:
For applicants interviewing in the PM session:
Each applicant will be interviewed by two faculty members (25 minutes each), three residents (13 minutes each) and the Program Director (13 minutes). Each applicant will also have two fifteen-minute breaks.
A virtual tour, as well as UCI GME and UCI OB/GYN Residency Program overview videos, will be made available via Thalamus and can be viewed any time prior to, on breaks during, and/or after the interview date.
Our recruitment and selection process starts with holistic application review, and is designed to help us match applicants who will become thriving members of our UC Irvine OB/GYN Residency Program family. Our residents each bring their unique backgrounds and interests to bear in pursuing our department’s mission of “Discover, Teach, Heal, Serve” with passion and perseverance.
Applications are considered as a body of work, with focus on depth and quality, rather than quantity, of projects and on clinical performance and evaluations. There is no minimum USMLE score required to apply, and recently matched applicants have scored in a very wide range.
While it is certainly not required, we love for applicants considering our program to visit us for an elective rotation, which we offer via VSAS in maternal fetal medicine, gynecologic oncology, family planning, female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery and outpatient OB/GYN (“GYN Walk-in”).
In each of the past four years, two or four of our seven residents (including those from UC Irvine School of Medicine) have done sub-internships with us prior to matching here.
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Alice Brown, MD – University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
Alyssa Bujnak, MD – University of Missouri
Marie-Claire Leaf, MD – University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Ariana Melendez, MD – University of Illinois College of Medicine
Jamie Miller, MD – University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Griselda Reyes, MD – University of California, San Francisco
Luke Schmidt, MD, – Drexel University College of Medicine
Class of 2023
Lindsay Burton, MD, MPH – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Emily Du, MD - Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Melissa López, MD, MPP - UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program
Devesh Naidoo, MD - University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Desire Nguyen, MD - University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Priya Patel, MD - University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Lauren Witchey - University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Class of 2024
Melissa Chambers, MD – St. Louis University School of Medicine
Danielle Greenberg, MD - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Helena Hong, MD – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Ann Nguyen Pham, MD – St. Louis University School of Medicine
Toni Okuyemi, MD – University of Minnesota Medical School
Patrick Penalosa, MD – University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Joris Ramstein, MD – University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Class of 2025
Eloho Akpovi, MD - The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Elizabeth Crawford, MD - University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Isabel del Canto, MD - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Michelle Didero, MD - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Alyssa Gonzalez, MD - The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Kristen Hardy, MD – West Virginia University School of Medicine - Charleston
Justine Maher, MD - University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
First Year
The first year of training is exclusively at UC Irvine Medical Center. It includes the following rotations, dividing the year into 14 blocks of approximately three and a half weeks each:
Second Year
Eight blocks of the second year of training is spent at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, with the remaining six blocks at UC Irvine Medical Center.
Third Year
The third year adds in the high-volume GYN surgery experience of a Kaiser Permanente rotation and includes a call-free elective block that can be used to achieve any educational goal desired by the resident:
Fourth Year
The fourth year of training gives the chief resident a large amount of decision-making responsibilities. The fourth-year resident runs all of the different services at UC Irvine Medical Center and the resident services at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, including outpatient clinics and inpatient obstetrics, gynecology and gynecologic oncology.
They also spend two months at Kaiser Anaheim, which is a Gyn rotation with an excellent volume of minimally invasive procedures.
All residents have their own continuity clinics at our affiliated FQHC clinic in Santa Ana.
Weekend L&D and ED call at UCI and LB are shared amongst the more junior classes, with the 4th year residents providing back-up call from home.
Residents rotating at Kaiser take in-house OB call at Kaiser while on those rotations.
Each class has four hours of protected teaching time or administrative time on Fridays.
The curriculum encompasses a wide range of domains, including medical knowledge, technical skills labs, simulations, research, quality improvement, interpersonal communication skills, wellness, teaching and professionalism.
The UCI OB/GYN Residency Program is committed to maintaining compliance with the ACGME Program requirements, including clinical experience and education hour restrictions. These requirements include:
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