Rini Ratan, M.D.
Course Director
Office: PH16-62
Phone: Ext. 5-1217
Email: rr2172@columbia.edu

The Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship is a five-week rotation which is spent either at the Presbyterian Hospital, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center or Stamford Hospital (Stamford, CT). The main objective is to familiarize the student with the signs and symptoms of normal and abnormal reproductive function and to teach the basic examinations in Obstetrics and Gynecology. The course will emphasize and reinforce skills of taking an appropriate history, performing a physical and pelvic examination, formulating a differential diagnosis, treatment plan and management of patients.

The student may gain exposure to the medical-surgical aspects in the subspecialty areas of gynecologic oncology, reproductive endocrinology and perinatology.

The primary didactic vehicles will consist of formal lectures with assigned readings. Small group preceptor sessions along with conferences will supplement the core.