 
The Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship looks to actively help students develop the skills listed below. These objectives are shared other clerkships, particularly Internal Medicine and Psychiatry.
The goal of the UNC Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship is to help students develop a comprehensive approach to the evaluation and care of women. During the clerkship, students will continue to improve on their abilities to obtain, record, analyze and communicate clinical information. More specifically, it is expected that all students, by the end of the clerkship, will be able to:
- Obtain an accurate, comprehensive history from the patient.
- Perform a rational, thorough physical exam.
- When appropriate, focus the history and physical exam to the patient's active issues.
- Order basic laboratory and radiologic studies as appropriate and to know how to interpret the results of these studies.
- Use information from the history, physical examination and initial laboratory data to create a problem list.
- Recognize and prioritize the issues in the problem list that need attention and to generate a differential diagnosis for each active problem.
- Use information from the history, physical examination and initial laboratory data, along with the problem list and differential diagnoses, to generate a patient-oriented assessment that includes a diagnostic and therapeutic plan for each of the patient's active problems.
- Record in writing, and present orally, the results of the complete history and physical examination (including assessment and plan) in a systematic, concise and coherent manner.
- Use the medical literature to understand the natural history of diseases and to help plan therapy that addresses the pathophysiology of these diseases.
- Integrate clinical reasoning skills with an ever increasing knowledge base
- Continue to develop and use the skills of self-directed learning.
- Have fun becoming a life long learner!
The patients the students meet on the wards and in the clinics should be the focus for the development of these skills; the students' contact with the patients is the center of the curriculum.
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