Our Division of Gynecology is taking a leadership role in clinical care and resident education in the area of minimally invasive surgery.  

1,900 Major and 2,100 Minor Surgeries Annually

Albert Einstein Medical Center's Division of Gynecology performs approximately 1,900 major and 2,100 minor surgical procedures annually.  Patients requiring general gynecologic care (annual care, health promotion and disease prevention, non-surgical complaints, and contraception) are seen and provided care in the resident continuity care system and offices of the faculty Patients requiring general gynecologic surgery are identified in the continuity clinics and in consultations, and are evaluated preoperatively. When these patients need surgical care, they are then referred to the pre-operative clinic for care by the gynecologic surgery team. Patients with urogynecologic problems and those requiring advanced laparoscopic and pelvic surgery are also seen and evaluated by the faculty. Residents will operate with them and learn the appropriate selection of cases and the skills necessary to perform advanced gynecologic, laparoscopic, and urogynecologic surgery.

Laparoscopic Surgical Training Laboratory

Under the leadership of Drs. David Jaspan, Philip Horn and John Myers, our laparoscopic surgical training laboratory is where residents train one-on-one with the faculty and follow structured self-learning programs.

The laboratory includes state-of-the-art artificial reality simulation laparoscopic trainers programmed to teach basic skills and to "walk" young surgeons through procedures and complications (just like the airline simulators used by pilots), and prototype trainers designed by Drs. Jaspan and Myers. In addition to the active teaching program (for our residents and for residents from other programs), the laboratory also is the center of ongoing educational research in the teaching of the psychomotor skills of surgery ("hand-eye" skills) in partnership with Dr. Charles RB Beckmann.

 

Resident Procedural Experience

A comparison of our procedural statistics with national data shows Albert Einstein to be well above the 80th percentile in almost all categories. 

AEMC OBGYN Gynecologic Procedures : Resident Experience (Comparison to National Resident Experience Data, expressed in percentage)
Gynecologic Procedure Categories	2004	2005
Abdominal Hysterectomy	75%	56%
Laparotomy	69%	96%
Operative Laparoscopy	75%	96%
Hysteroscopy	80%	96%
Conization of the Cervix	96%	98%
Surgical Sterilization	44%	94%
Vaginal Ultrasound	32%	71%