Health care
BY SARAH BRAGER
Most doctors agree no day at the hospital is guaranteed to look the same. For medical resi- dents, unpredictability can bring the best learning opportunities. July 1 marks the one-year anniversary of Hous- ton Methodist Willowbrook Hospital’s OB GYN residency, the hospital’s rst and only graduate medical education residency. Houston Methodist Willowbrook launched the four-year program in part to expand access to OB GYN care in northwest Houston, Program Director Dr. Sarah Hoopes said. Read all about it Drs. Katie Kolp and Christine Jeong, two residents in the inaugural ve-person cohort of the program, said they love how the hands-on training teaches them to roll with the punches. Depending on their rotation, a day may be spent assisting with patient check-ups in the clinic, newborn deliveries or surgical procedures in the operating room. In an interview with Community Impact , the residents said being a part of a new program helped boost camaraderie within their small cohort and gain con dence with making decisions under pressure. “We learned how to be residents while also helping shape what the program would become, and without senior residents or an established structure, we had to step into leadership and Doctors re ect on 1st year of Willowbrook OB GYN residency
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Residents Donya Derakshani (left) and Christine Jeong (right) go over patient rounds with Program Director Dr. Sarah Hoopes.
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Hoopes said northwest Houston needs more OB GYNs to best serve its growing population. Most of their patients come from the Spring, Cypress and Tomball communities, but many also travel from more rural areas that lack health care providers, she said. Looking forward Houston Methodist Willowbrook will welcome a new ve-person cohort of residents in July, faculty said. Faculty member Dr. Stacy Norton said they will continue to adjust the program’s curriculum and rotations as it grows to four full cohorts of doctors as well as expand the hospital’s academic culture.
responsibility early,” Jeong said. Hoopes said one that sets the program apart from other teaching hospitals is its emphasis on continuity of care, meaning residents are able to see the same patients over time and develop a trusting relationship. Houston Methodist Willow- brook is also known for its low-intervention birth training, with certi ed nurse midwives available to assist with natural childbirth in the hospital. “We are unique in our e ort to include interdis- ciplinary training,” Hoopes said. “Our residents train with pelvic oor physical therapists, sonog- raphers, geneticists, certi ed nurse midwives, lactation specialists and neonatal nurses.”
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