2. ★ Gynecologist treat and diagnose diseases in the female genital and rectal
organs
★ Care for women during pregnancy
★ Discusses problems with patients and prescribes medicine
★ discuss with patients about test results
★ discuss with women on how to have a good diet and proper hygiene
★ Examines patients to diagnose what the problems are
★ Gynecologist educate women on complications that might happen during
pregnancy and the important diseases they need to know of
★ have to do surgical procedures (thinking about mother and baby’s health)
★ Gynecologists perform pap smears in order to determine if women have
any diseases
★ have to help women who are fertile with insemination
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3. ★ In 1500 Jacob Nufer was the first reported successful cesarean section
to have both the mother and baby survive
★ In 1825 the first ever blood transfusion performed for postpartum
hemorrhage was made by James Blundell
★ 1847 James Young Simpson used chloroform as an anesthetic during
labor
★ In 1866 J. Marion Sims did the first human artificial insemination
★ Alfred Duhrssen was the first successful series of vaginal cesarean
sections reported
★ Oskar Kreis was the first person to use spinal anesthesia for labor in
1900
★ First screening for cervical cancer introduced in 1941 by George
Papanicolau
★ Ian Donald developed the ultrasound in 1958
★ In 1978 in vitro fertilization first performed successfully by Patrick
Christopher Steptoe
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4. ★ Common health issues include
○ Cervical Cancer
○ Vaginitis
○ Dysmenorrhea
○ Yeast Infection
★ Cervical Cancer is common in women and is detected with pap smears and
can be cured if it is detected at an early stage
★ Vaginitis is an infection in the female genital that causes irritation, itching,
swelling etc. it can be caused by poor hygiene, std, bacteria in genital or harsh
soaps and can be cured with over the counter pills or creams
★ Dysmenorrhea is a painful menstruation. symptoms may be nausea,
dizziness, and back pain and can be treated with aspirin.
★ yeast infections are caused by an increase in yeast bacteria in the female
genital. symptoms are itching and burning. yeast infections can be treated by
over the counter creams or gynecologist might give you pills to take orally. the
yeast infection gets cured with the treatments
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5. ★ Students interested in being a gynecologist must first earn a high school
diploma and complete a bachelor's degree that includes full-year courses
in subjects like chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics and English. A
high GPA and high scores on the Medical College Admission Test is
required. It is taken in the third year of college.
★ Once admitted in medical school, a student must complete four years of a
training program in gynecology which include classroom training as well
as clinical practice. Residents must take on the responsibilities as a leader
in either their third or fourth years of the program.
★ During the fourth year of residency, aspiring gynecologists must take an
written and oral certification examination. Once this permission is
granted, candidates are known as "registered residency graduates."
★ It usually takes 8 years to become a gynecologists: 4 years of medical
school and 4 years of medical residency programs
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7. ★ Aside from AIDS, the most common sexually transmitted diseases among
women is pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
★ In the U.S., more than 1 million women experience PID each year
★ teenagers having the highest rate of infection.
★ 100,000 women become infertile each year as a result of PID.
★ in 2012 about 8,010 women will die from endometrial cancer
★ more than 840 women will die of cervical cancer within the next year
★ in 2009 27,813 women died from a gynecologic cancer
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9. ★ Employment for physicians and surgeons are expected to grow 24 percent
in the years 2010-2020
★ the birth rate can also determine whether the jobs will decline or increase
in the next couple of years.
★ Total jobs (currently)-14,000
★ fewer OB/GYNs are delivering babies because of the high cost of
insurance for this type of medicine
★ jobs might decline because women are
having babies at home
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10. ★ Gynecologist have to have to be responsible of health and safety in
others
★ have to have a high level of interactions with patients
★ gynecologists always work indoors in clinics and hospitals
★ wear uniform(white jacket) and masks or gloves to protect
themselves from diseases
★ work more than 40 hours a week
★ have a work schedule
★ sometimes can be on-call for emergencies
★ gynecologists have to be exact on work
★ stressful environment due to daily deadlines
★ have to make decisions that will impact patients lives
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13. A day in the life...
12:00 p.m. — A scheduled C-section on a 26-year-old. In her third pregnancy, the patient has requested tubal
sterilization, so we prepare for this as well.
2:00 p.m. — C-section finished. Gets called on a 20-year-old, who, at 41 weeks, needs labor induction.
3:15 p.m. — Grab a quick bite to eat.
4:00 p.m. — Rounds on the maternity ward. Many patients with male newborns request circumcision, perform any
circumcisions requested.
6:00 p.m. — Quick check on the patient who was bleeding earlier. Her bleeding has stopped, but I plan for further
observation.
7:00 p.m. Home dinner with my family, which is waiting.
10:00 p.m. Gets call from the clinic's labor and delivery unit about an 18-year-old who is contracting every two
minutes. The nurse says she is not dilated, but she asks for my recommendations. Instruct her to start intravenous
fluids and testing to assess risk for pre-term delivery.
10:45 p.m. — Follow-up call on the 18-year-old, who is still contracting. Reviews her test results and determines it's
safe to administer medications to stop her contractions.
11:30 p.m. — Another follow-up call on the 18-year-old. The medication is effective, and the patient stops contracting.
Fetal monitoring is normal. Her risk for pre-term delivery is low, so we send her home with an appointment to
return within the week.
3:00 a.m. — A colleague wakes me up with the news that a patient is in active labor, so it's time to drive back to the
hospital. It seems there is always a delivery in the middle of the night!
8:00 a.m. — Time to hand off these cases to my colleagues. Checks in briefly with the higher-risk cases, and then it's
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