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Didactic Curriculum

Our Three Major Scheduled Educational Opportunities

These sessions comprise the important organized educational opportunities for residents. Substantial effort is expended to be certain the major learning objectives for residents (the “CREOG Objectives and ACGME Competencies) are addressed with high quality offerings.

Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds are the academic focus point for the entire Department, held every Wednesday morning, September through June at 7:15 to 8:15 am, except for the eight Wednesdays which are reserved for the Einstein Institutional Curriculum Series. Speakers are invited from the ranks of nationally recognized scholars in medicine, nursing, business, and other disciplines as well as from our own Einstein faculty. The rounds are open to the entire Einstein community and carry one hour’s CME credit for physicians.

Tuesday Morning Program
(three fully protected 45-minute sessions on Tuesday mornings) - the core educational offering for residents.

  • In July, August, and September, the FUNDAMENTALS LECTURE SERIES is presented, general material reviewing basics of OBGYN and Primary and Preventive Care.

  • In October through until June, the ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES is presented, offerings of various kinds (lectures, seminars, M&M, special speakers, the CITROG review series, reviews of Precis, Prolog, and the ACOG Educational and Technical Bulletins)

Morning Report

  • Morning report is held each Monday, Thursday and Friday and is attended by the on-call attending for the day and the post-call attending as well as the Chairman or a Program Director, and other attending physicians as their schedules permit.

  • Morning Report is the focus of active training in evidence based practice, providing residents the opportunity to:

  1. Develop the ability to relate clinical information needed to care for patients

  2. Understand the importance of a complete history and physical

  3. Be able to develop a differential diagnosis based on history and physical examination

  4. Learn the appropriate tests needed to refine diagnoses such that a therapeutic plan can be developed

  5. Discuss alternative approaches of management

  6. Learn standard therapies and the be able to justify deviations from standard based on clinical situations unique to each patient

  7. Review recent literature relating to the disease process

  8. Review the pathophysiology of the disease proces



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