Fellowship

The fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS) is a three-year program designed to train obstetrician-gynecologists or urologists for productive careers in academic medicine. Currently this program is approved to accept one fellow per year, for a total of three fellows. The FPMRS program at UT Southwestern will be participating in the NRMP fellowship match and accepting one fellow to begin in July 2012.

Clinical Facilities

Fellows will rotate through:

• Parkland Memorial Hospital
• UT Southwestern University Hospital--St. Paul
• UT Southwestern Outpatient Building
• UT Southwestern University Hospital-Zale Lipshy

All of these facilities are contiguous with UT Southwestern Medical School.

Scott and White Clinic is a 636-bed Level I Trauma acute care facility and has been ranked among the top 100 hospitals by Thomson Healthcare’s 100 Top Hospitals. The Scott & White Clinic is located about 2 ½-hours away from Dallas by car. Fellows have the opportunity to spend an elective month with Dr. Bob Shull, who is an expert vaginal surgeon.

Conferences

Each fellow is funded to attend the AUGS annual conference each year. Fellows are expected to attend the full conference. They are encouraged to present their work annually at this meeting, in addition to producing manuscripts for publication each year of the program. Attendance at other functions may also be funded at the discretion of the program and division director, particularly if research is being presented.

The division also has an active conference schedule in which all fellows are encouraged to participate. A variety of conferences, journal clubs, grand rounds, and lectures specific to the division are available. Daily lectures and grand rounds are also given by different departments of the medical school and are published in a monthly calendar of events.