Message from our Residency Program Director

We are thrilled that you are interested in the OBGYN residency program at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin. We are proud to train exceptional people, and we work with a dedicated team of educators to make it possible. We recruit six residents per year to learn and grow in a fast-paced, growing health care system in the exciting mid-sized Midwestern city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Our residents participate in the full range of obstetric experiences in a high-volume, high-acuity birth center. Our birth center is currently expanding to include an OBED and second labor floor to meet the growing needs of this service.  We emphasize operative delivery with both forceps and vacuum to avoid primary cesarean in appropriate candidates. We also offer care for patients desiring TOLAC, breech extraction of a second twin, immediate LARC, and immediate postpartum salpingectomy for sterilization. Residents have the opportunity to work and learn in multidisciplinary teams, including certified nurse-midwives, family medicine OB providers, and faculty and staff OBGYN physicians. We have a robust high-risk service managed by our Maternal-Fetal Medicine team, which includes full-time faculty, advanced practice providers, and  MFM fellows. We are also fortunate to have a perinatal mental health team working in both inpatient and outpatient settings.  

We also offer outstanding educational experience in all aspects of gynecology. We have fellowship-trained providers in every GYN subspecialty, including Complex Family Planning, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, and Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Our residents enjoy a rigorous surgical experience as well as the full range of consultative and procedural GYN in the office, the emergency department, and in the inpatient setting. Our residents receive extensive training in Family Planning through our well-established partnership with Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. 

Our residency program is about much more than procedural experience, however. We have a formal didactic curriculum with 3-4 hours of protected educational time each week, including Quality Conference, Morbidity and Mortality review, Grand rounds, Simulation, Journal club, and many other educational opportunities. In addition, our residents also engage in a departmental research requirement during their training. Each resident completes a research project that culminates in a presentation and final manuscript at the conclusion of their third year of residency. This scholarly endeavor teaches residents how to critically review the literature and how to develop an appropriate statistical approach as they design, conduct, and complete a research study. The development of these skills during residency is an integral component of their professional training. 

We value the professional and personal wellness of our learners and support programming that fosters it. This includes unstructured wellness time on the fifth Wednesday morning of the month, as well as a budget for workroom snacks and wellness activities.  

You will finish the MCWAH OBGYN residency well-trained and ready to excel. Our residents have gone on to private practice, academic medicine, and fellowship positions feeling prepared to thrive in the next step in their careers. Please browse the remainder of our website for further details of the residency, our educational program, current residents, and the beautiful city of Milwaukee.