• Large faculty with high degree of national prominence and expertise: trainees learn from experts in their field; trainees work with outstanding role models and mentors.
• Strong academic culture: trainees learn to practice evidence-based medicine; trainees are challenged to become clear-headed clinical thinkers; trainees attend high quality conferences and educational sessions.
• Magee is a women’s hospital and the regional referral center for a large catchment area: patient volume, range of acuity, and range of diagnoses ensure that trainees have outstanding clinical skills and can practice anywhere; trainees develop excellent procedural skills.
• Magee utilizes non-residents to deliver patient care that is purely “scut”: residents can focus on level-appropriate learning objectives.
• The residency has strong support from Magee and the Department: residents input is routinely used to improve the program; a well-staffed residency administration works daily to optimize resident education; residents meet regularly with the Chair and the Program Director to discuss the education program.
• The residency has 5-year accreditation status from the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education with no citations.
• The Department has multiple subspecialty fellowships: residents who seek subspecialty fellowships have outstanding opportunities locally and nationally; trainees attain broad clinical and procedural skills; faculty effectively balance resident procedural training with fellow procedural training due to vast experience; fellows are outstanding role models and mentors for residents.
• Magee is a free-standing women’s hospital: obstetrical and gynecologic care is a major focus of the hospital’s mission; residents also benefit from full-service specialty consultation on-site, such as critical care medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, neonatology, and many others
• The R3 year has elective time which may be used for an international rotation: trainees can continue and/or develop their commitment to women’s health globally during residency.

Our program is a participant in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). All applicants to our program must apply using ERAS as no paper applications will be accepted. The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences only sponsors J-1 visas. International medical graduates (IMGs) can contact the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) for the application materials and should reference the document below for information pertaining to the departmental requirements for IMGs.

Completed applications consist of:

• ERAS Common Application Form
  
• Personnel Statement
  
• Photograph
  
• Minimum of Three Letters of Recommendation (with one letter being from either the Chair or a faculty member from your school's Ob/Gyn Department)
  
• Dean's Letter
  
• Official Transcript of Grades (from all medical schools attended)
  
• NBME/USMLE Scores

Decisions for interviews are based on an applicant's entire application. To be eligible for an interview, applicants must have passing scores on USMLE, however, we do not have a cut off based on class ranks. Once a decision for interview is made by the Admissions Committee, you will be informed via email as to whether or not you are invited for an interview. With the high volume of applications received each year, it is not possible for our Admissions Committee to review all of the completed files immediately upon receipt of Dean's letters. Applicants may not hear from us regarding the Admissions Committee's decision until the middle of November, so please be patient but feel free to contact us regarding the status of your application.

Interviews are by invitation only. This year, we will interview applicants on the following four Saturdays:

Saturday, November 14
Saturday, December 12
Saturday, January 9
Saturday, January 16

On average, we receive 360 applications from both U.S. medical students and international medical graduates each year for our nine first-year positions. We interview approximately 70 applicants over the course of the four interview days. Out of our current resident class, 40% were elected to AOA with less than 1% having participated in a fourth-year Ob/Gyn elective at our institution. Sixty percent of the graduates from the past five years of residency have pursued an academic career.

Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is the obstetrical and gynecological teaching unit of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC is adjacent to the medical school and its other teaching hospitals, as well as the undergraduate campus of the University of Pittsburgh, in the Oakland section of the city. The inpatient obstetrical and gynecological service includes 110 adult beds, 6 adult ICU beds, 80 bassinets, and 74 neonatal intensive care unit beds. The ambulatory care units and emergency services for obstetrics and gynecology are conveniently located in the hospital. In a one year period, there are approximately 43,000 patient visits to the Ambulatory Care Clinic. The Emergency Department at Magee had over 16,500 patient visits during the last academic year of which 45% were obstetrical or gynecologic visits.

Additional facilities and services include:

1. A dedicated ob/gyn ultrasound unit (sonographers are all obstetrician gynecologists)
2. A reproductive genetics unit
3. A library with staff and expertise to pull articles and perform literature searches
4. Extensive clinical, basic, and translational research resources (incluing the Magee-Womens Research Institute)
5. Multiple on-site simulation tools
6. Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research (WISER) located approximately one block from the hospital; the full service multidisciplinary medical simulation center of the University of Pittsburgh.

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