Description
Mayo Clinic OB/GYN practice has a 25-year history of cutting-edge courses for practicing obstetric, gynecologic, family medicine and internal medicine providers. This enterprise-wide clinical and surgical course encompasses all areas of OB/GYN, including discussions relating management of adnexal masses, essure removal, hysterectomies, sexual health, pelvic pain, integrating MVA into pregnancy care, blood loss, endometriosis, vulvar dermatology, robotic surgical approaches, pelvic organ prolapse, genetics, updated pap smear guidelines, 3rd party reproduction, fertility preservation among transgender and gender diverse individuals, prenatal care, and much more.
Content for this course was developed from the 2021 and 2022 live and livestream OB/GYN Clinical and Surgical Updates courses.
Learning Objectives
Upon conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the evidence-based modalities for surgical approaches to endometriosis, submucosal myomas, and oophorectomy during vaginal hysterectomy
- Assess health disparities in maternal health
- Identify innovative approaches to chronic pelvic pain
- Determine strategies to reduce risks of surgical complications and learn to safely manage surgical complications when they occur
- Identify key pelvic anatomy and techniques to decrease risk of complication during gynecologic surgery
- Identify new pap smear guidelines for screening and management
- Determine best strategies for antenatal and intrapartum surveillance
- Interpret health concerns for women including preventative health care and hormone replacement therapy
- Describe options for fertility preservation and management of diminished ovarian reserve
Utilization of this Mayo Clinic online (enduring materials) course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be in this course.
| Lecture Title | Speaker(s) |
| Session 1: Gynecology Surgery & Pelvic Anatomy | |
| Adnexal Mass on Ultrasound: Benign Surgery or Refer? | Kristina A. Butler, M.D., M.S. Carrie L. Langstraat, M.D. |
| Potentially Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind: Tips to Access and Remove the Adnexa During Vaginal Surgery | John A. Occhino, M.D., M.S. |
| Essure Removal: What’s the Standard? | Sarah L. Rassier, M.D., M.P.H. |
| Optimizing Hysterectomy: It’s About the Team and the Instruments | Anita H. Chen, M.D. Christopher C. Destephano Tri A. Dinh, M.D. |
| No Pain, Big Gain: How to Safely and Efficiently Excise Stage I-IV Endometriosis | Megan N. Wasson, D.O. |
| Chronic Pelvic Pain and Innovations | Isabel C. Green, M.D. |
| Feel the Pain, a Tutorial on Pelvic Floor Injections | Anita H. Chen, M.D. Johnny Yi, M.D. |
| Anatomy Through the Laparoscope | Megan N. Wasson, D.O. |
| To Do or Not To Do a Vertical Midline Incision? That is the Question | Paul M. Magtibay, M.D. |
| Single Port Robotic Approach: Gynecologic Surgery and Beyond | Johnny Yi, M.D. |
| Surgery is a Pain in the Neck! Improving Surgeon Well- being | Susan Hallbeck, Ph.D. |
| Apical Support: for Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse | Annetta M. Madsen, M.D. |
| When Things Go Wrong: Assessment and Management of Intraoperative Complications | Jamie N. Bakkum-Gamez, M.D. |
| Defecatory Dysfunction | Olivia O. Cardenas-Trowers, M.D. |
| A Primer in Quality, Safety, and Experience Assessment | Sean C. Dowdy, M.D. |
| Session 2: Office-Based Gynecology & Procedures | |
| Would you Biopsy That? Vulvar Dermatology | Katherine J. Bodiford, M.D. |
| Quantitative Blood Loss | Julie A. Lunde, M.S.N., R.N., CLC Vanessa E. Torbenson, M.D. |
| Moving Away from the OR: Integrating MVA into your Early Pregnancy Care Practice | Margaret L. Dow, M.D. |
| Out of the OR and into the Office: Changing Practice Environments for Hysteroscopy | Aakriti R. Carrubba, M.D. |
| Beyond Hormones, Babies, and Periods- Primary care for the OB/GYN | Suneela Vegunta, M.D. |
| From the Pelvis to the Brain: Understanding the Role of CBT and Prehabilitation in Chronic Pelvic Pain | Cynthia O. Townsend, Ph.D., L.P. |
| Incorporating a Virtual Genetic Information Assistant Into Practice | Megan A. Allyse, Ph.D. |
| Shared Decision Making for the Busy Clinician | Victor M. Montori, M.D. |
| Keeping up with Changing Guidelines: One Pap Smear at a Time | Nicola A. Nicholson, P.A.-C., M.S. |
| The Difficult LEEP | Isabel C. Green, M.D. |
| The ABCs of OCPs | Jenna N. Wygant, APRN, C.N.P., D.N.P. |
| Session 3: Women’s Health & Reproduction | |
| Keynote: Rural Health – Navigating the Obstetric Desert | Regan N. Theiler, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Sexual Health After Cancer | Jacqueline M. Thielen, M.D. |
| Navigating Hysteroscopic Myomectomy: Do’s and Don’ts | Aakriti R. Carrubba, M.D. |
| 3rd Party Reproduction | Jessica L. Bleess, P.A.-C. |
| Myomectomy in Perimenopause: “Am I Too Late?” | Michelle Y. Louie, M.D. |
| Fertility Preservation Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals: Empowering Patients with Information and Reducing Regret | Zaraq Khan, M.B.B.S. |
| Innovation in the Delivery of Fertility Care | Alessandra (Ali) J. Ainsworth, M.D. |
| Secondary Amenorrhea | Chandra C. Shenoy, M.D. |
| Diminished Ovarian Reserve | Frederick W. Larsen, M.D. |
| Perimenopause and Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: What’s Normal? | Shannon K. Laughlin-Tommaso, M.D. |
| Integrative Medicine in Menopause | Denise M. Millstine, M.D. |
| Testosterone Supplementation in Women after Bilateral Oophorectomy: Why, When and How? | Ekta Kapoor, M.B.B.S. |
| Session 4: Management of Pregnancy & Delivery | |
| The Gender Reveal Party: Aneuploidy Screening Update | Myra J. Wick, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 5 Breastfeeding Myths: Debunked | Melissa A. Kurke, R.N., I.B.C.L.C. |
| Antenatal Fetal Surveillance: How Much is Too Much? | Linda M. Szymanski, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Innovations in Intrapartum Surveillance | Yvonne S. Butler Tobah, M.D. |
| Progesterone for Prevention of Preterm Delivery in 2022 | Carl H. Rose, M.D. |
| Aspirin for Prevention of Preeclampsia | Mari Charisse Trinidad, M.D. |
| Cesarean on Maternal Request (Demand): What You and Your Patients Should Know | Vanessa E. Torbenson, M.D. |
| Calculated Risk: The Updated VBAC Calculator | Enid Y. Rivera-Chiauzzi, M.D. |
| Two for the Price of One? Twin Pregnancy Risks (& What to Do About it!) | Linda M. Szymanski, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Session 5: Gynecologic Surgical Cases | |
| Urology Ureteroscopy with Laser Lithotripsy | Gretchen E. Glaser, M.D. |
| Robotic Hysterectomy and Bilateral Salpingectomy with Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping for Complex Atypical Hyperplasia | John B. Gebhart, M.D. |
| Vaginal Hysterectomy with Bilateral Salpingectomy and Ovarian Preservation | Zaraq Khan, M.B.B.S. |
| Laparoscopic Bilateral Salpingectomy for Bilateral Hydrosalpinx | Kristina A. Butler, M.D., M.S. |
| Incidental Ovarian Mass on Imaging with Normal CA-125 in a Postmenopausal Female | Kristina A. Butler, M.D., M.S. |
| Complex Ovarian Mass and Cancer Staging Lymphadenectomy | Zaraq Khan, M.B.B.S. |
| A Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy in Setting on Pelvic Endometriosis and Ovarian Remnant | Zaraq Khan, M.B.B.S. |
| Operative Laparoscopy with Excision of Minimal Stage Endometriosis | Carrie L. Langstraat, M.D. |
| Cytoreductive Surgery for Recurrent Ovarian Cancer | Megan N. Wasson, D.O. |
| Robotic Assisted Hysterectomy: A Demonstration of Technique, Retroperitoneal Sidewall Anatomy and Contained Morcellation | Paul M. Magtibay, M.D. |
| Excision of Cyst in the Perineal Body/Rectovaginal Septum | John B. Gebhart, M.D. |






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