{"id":3633,"date":"2016-10-26T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/for-wisconsin\/?post_type=campus_story&p=3633"},"modified":"2016-10-26T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:26:58","slug":"uw-madison-launches-nations-first-rural-obstetrics-and-gynecology-residency","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/uw-madison-launches-nations-first-rural-obstetrics-and-gynecology-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Madison launches nation’s first rural obstetrics and gynecology residency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Waupun Memorial Hospital, one of the locations where the first residents will eventually be placed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Madison, Wisconsin – Faced with a nationwide shortage of obstetricians and gynecologists, especially in rural areas, the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has started the nation\u2019s first rural-residency program to train and provide care to women in rural Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Residency is medical training where newly graduated doctors practice medicine under supervision of an attending physician. The\u00a0obstetrics and gynecology residency program lasts four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cResidents who train in certain settings are more likely to locate their practices in similar settings. We want to give them experience in these underserved areas,\u201d said\u00a0Dr. Ellen Hartenbach<\/a>, residency program director and professor of\u00a0obstetrics and gynecology at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince we started the program we\u2019ve already heard from other medical schools in the country interested in starting a similar program. We see a need that has to be addressed. \u201d<\/p>\n

Hartenbach adds, \u201cSome women need to drive more than an hour to see an Ob-Gyn. This program plans to train doctors to practice in the rural areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ellen Hartenbach, MD, director of UW-Madisons Rural Residency program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the American College of Nurse-Midwives nearly half the counties in the U.S. do not have an obstetrician\/gynecologist. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists estimates there will be between 6,000 and 8,800 fewer Ob-Gyns than needed in the United States by the year 2020 and a shortage of possibly 22,000 by the year 2050.<\/p>\n

The recruitment for the first rural-track resident is underway. A new rural-track resident will join the program each year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are specifically looking for doctors who want to practice in these rural communities. We train them and hopefully they will stay in Wisconsin,\u201d said John Street, educational program manager for the rural residency program. \u201cThis is the perfect example of the Wisconsin Idea: Work being done at the university going beyond Dane County.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2021\u00a0obstetrics and gynecology residency class will have one member, who will be dedicated to hospitals outside of Madison. The training for the resident will begin in July 2017 and the first year will be spent in Madison.<\/p>\n

Starting in 2018, the resident will complete rotations in hospitals and clinics in Monroe, Portage, Ripon, Waupun and Watertown. The goal will be to expand to more rural areas in Wisconsin eventually.<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Rural Physician Residency Assistance Program and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health provided funding for this position.<\/p>\n

Media Inquiries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Kumlien<\/a><\/p>\n

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