Ob/Gyn

Interim Chair: Rida W. Boulos, M.D., M.P.H.

Obstetrics and Gynecology is a combined medical/surgical specialty dealing with reproduction and diseases of the female reproductive tract. The obstetrician cares for the patient before, during and after pregnancy (both normal and problematic), while the gynecologist provides preventive as well as curative care for non-pregnancy related conditions.

A four-year residency training program in obstetrics and gynecology is provided by the Department. Dr. Yolanda Renfroe is the Program Director of the Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The department develops and provides a portion of the M2, M3 and M4 curriculum. Dr. Rida Boulos is the M3/M4 Clerkship Director. Medical students spend eight weeks of their third year on an obstetrics and gynecology clerkship rotation. The clerkship includes didactic lectures, teaching rounds, and rotations with assigned attending physicians in general gynecology, obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine. The Department also offers an eight-week obstetrics and gynecology clerkship in the Bloomington area for one third-year student on each of the eight-week rotations.

Four-week electives in benign operative gynecology, gynecologic oncology, labor and delivery obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine and reproductive endocrinology and infertility are offered to medical students in their fourth year.

The faculty members of the department are:

Interim Chairman

Rida W. Boulos, M.D., M.P.H.

Division of Gynecologic Oncology

Kenneth A. Hodel, MD

Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

Kathy Trumbull, MD

Jacek Graczykowski, MD

In addition, there are approximately 30 part-time faculty members who serve as members of the teaching faculty for medical students and residents.