Welcome to the Residency Program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Our faculty and staff are dedicated to providing the highest quality of primary and specialty healthcare for women in a compassionate and responsive manner.
Jessica Francis, MD - Residency Program Director
The Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital are excited to transition to a single site academic OBGYN residency program. We will be recruiting five residents per year to learn and grow in a very fast paced and growing health care system.
Our residents participate in the full range of obstetric experiences on a very busy labor and delivery. 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. We have a robust high-risk service managed by our Maternal Fetal medicine division, which includes eight full time faculty, two advanced practice providers, two genetic counselors and three MFM fellows.
In regard to gynecology, we offer an unmatched educational program. We have fellowship trained providers in every subspecialty recognized by ABOG, as well as in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology and Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery. Our residents enjoy a robust 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 exceptional training in Family Planning through our partnership with Rush and their well-established relationship with Planned Parenthood of Illinois.
Our residency program is about much more than procedural experience, however. We have a formal didactic curriculum with 3-4hours of protected educational time each week that includes Quality conference, Morbidity and Mortality review, Grand rounds, Simulation, Journal club, and many more educational opportunities. In addition, our residents also engage in a departmental research requirement during their training. Each resident completes a self-lead research project that culminates at the conclusion of their third year of residency with a presentation and final manuscript. Residents learn 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 in an integral component of their professional training.
Last but certainly not least, we pride ourselves on our focus on improving the diversity of our program. We serve a diverse and wonderful patient population and strive to mirror that population in our training program.
You will finish the MCWAH OBGYN residency well-trained and well-prepared. Our residents have gone onto private practice, academic medicine and fellowship positions feeling ready for 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.