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i'm dr amy crockett i'm one of the
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maternal fetal medicine physicians here
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and i'm the program director for the
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maternal field medicine fellowship
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i think there are a couple unique
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characteristics of our program
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you know our goal is for our graduates
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to come out of the program
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really ready to take a leadership role
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whether that's on a labor and delivery
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unit somewhere or within their practice
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or
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within more of a traditional academic
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setting so i'm selena jones i
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am a rising second year maternal fetal
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medicine fellow
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here at prisma health i really enjoy the
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complexity that i see in clinic
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as well as in the hospital and i love
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the impact that we have on them i think
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of a maternal fetal medicine
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specialist as a provider of hope for
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those patients
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and they're able to carry them through
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to the finish line
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and they're able to take home hopefully
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take home
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a baby with them something that that
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patient may have never
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thought they would have had the
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opportunity to do what we really want to
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train people that are
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ready to come out and and be able to
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make an
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impact with a leadership role wherever
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they go
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training people that are excellent at
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the bedside have a lot of really good
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clinical experience but also
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can use the you know tool set that we
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give them while they're here
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as a fellow i think that
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we have more of a leadership role as a
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clinical instructor
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i take call as a generalist and so
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i am on labor and delivery with the
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residents
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and i am the faculty and so
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it's really me managing these patients
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with the residents
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we also expect our fellows to be highly
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engaged teachers
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while they're here so they practice in a
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faculty capacity supervising the
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residents on labor and delivery
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for sure at night on calls but also when
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they're running the labor and delivery
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unit
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in in general when you look at our
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program we're balanced more towards the
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maternal medicine side of things than we
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are towards the fetal intervention side
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of things we
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of course have a really strong
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experience for the fellows doing
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prenatal diagnosis with ultrasound that
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just
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is kind of the bread and butter of our
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specialty but really our strength is
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in managing women with complex
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pregnancies
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our fellows also spend a little bit more
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time on labor and delivery compared to
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other programs
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the national requirement is for them to
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spend two months in a supervisory
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position on labor and delivery we have
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our
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fellows spend three months up there the
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labor and delivery unit is
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an enormous very diverse team that
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includes
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a lot of different nurses trainees
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consulting practices in general obgyns
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to midwives
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to be able to flourish in that kind of
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environment and really be able to
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lead the team towards getting the best
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care and the best outcomes for patients
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one of the things that i found
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interesting about this program
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was the research i was pretty intrigued
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with
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my fellowship director and her work in
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centering pregnancy
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and as well as especially particularly
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her work with racial disparities
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we're a tertiary care center which is
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the
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level 4 nicu in our region we draw the
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high risk and complicated patients from
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a wider population of about 10 000
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deliveries
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so it's really nice it's it's a it's a
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way to get the cream of the crop or
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really the focused population
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of the most interesting cases without
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having to have so much of the
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routine ob volume so really the first
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kind of four months
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i just expect the fellows to sort of get
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their feet underneath them and start to
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identify a mentor
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and then by the second half of the year
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the focus goes more into
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being able to start developing the idea
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for the research projects
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that work falls to the fellows and so
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because it can be so time consuming we
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have blocks and blocks of research
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months
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together during the second year so that
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they have the ability and the freedom to
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really troubleshoot
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those projects the third year is really
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trying to transition towards independent
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practice
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it means developing those skills to
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run a full ultrasound unit because
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that's just what you'll be expected to
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do in practice every day
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drafting the ultrasound reports
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counseling the patients
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and managing a really busy profile are
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are some of the goals
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that we have and the focus for the last
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six months of the fellowship is
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getting ready for for practice here it
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does feel like
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a wealth of support and
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it feels like people actually care and
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they
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want to see you succeed and they want to
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teach you
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and they want you to go off and
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be the person in that career that you
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want to be
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one of our other really unique
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opportunities is that we put all of our
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fellows through
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a two-year certificate program at
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clemson university
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it's a certificate in clinical and
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translational research
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it's a really nice way to have a
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structured base
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in some of the science behind the
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quality improvement work that
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you know is so important for us here i
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think the most
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inspiring about being here or
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this department in particular is all of
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the
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female leadership and so that's
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inspiring to me because i strive to be
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like that
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i strive to have the leadership
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capabilities
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to be able to manage multiple tasks at
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once
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and just be a strong person for my
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patients
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i do think though the institutional
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culture here is
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is unique and really important and
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that's what makes it a nice place to
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work
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either as a fellow that's kind of in
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this hybrid position between the
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residents and the faculty or or as
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faculty
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there's lots of people around that have
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a lot of involvement and engagement and
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commitment to teaching into our fellows
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overall being a fellow is a lot
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different from being a resident
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it's a lot more it's a lot more relaxed
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but very intense at the same time
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it's hard but i think that it's very
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rewarding
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and i'm just very happy to be here
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you
