One of the strengths of the Baylor College of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency Program is its training institutions.

Residents rotate through one of the busiest public hospitals in the country as well as two of the leading tertiary care hospitals in the Texas Medical Center. Residents leave after four years of training confident they are well-prepared to deal with almost every type of obstetrical and gynecological case that they may encounter.


Ben Taub General Hospital
Ben Taub General Hospital is one of two general hospitals operated by the tax-supported Harris County Hospital District. Baylor's faculty is responsible for the medical services at Ben Taub and at five of the District's nine community health clinics. Almost 40 percent of the Baylor housestaff is in training at District facilities at any one time, providing complete patient care under the supervision of full-time teaching faculty.

A 550-bed, acute-care facility with a Level I Trauma Center containing five specialized emergency suites, Ben Taub opened in January 1990. The obstetrical service consists of five delivery suites, 66 obstetrical beds, 14 labor beds, five observation beds, two isolation beds, one intensive care bed and 121 bassinets. More than 90,000 patients are treated annually in Ben Taub's emergency center and more than 150,000 persons are seen as outpatients in the medical and surgical specialty clinics. About 20,000 patients are admitted each year.

About 1,800 patients can be expected to be admitted each year on the gynecology service and about 8,200 for obstetrics. Deliveries number more than 5,400 a year. All Ben Taub patients are available to Baylor residents.


St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (SLEH), a 949-bed, adult acute-care, not-for-profit facility, also enjoys an international reputation for tertiary care. Its services, especially in cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, hand surgery and high-risk pregnancy, receive patients from throughout Texas and the world. The facility is contiguous to The Methodist Hospital.

Its Halbouty Premature Nursery provides state-of-the-art facilities for 16 premature infants. The hospital's newborn research program includes clinical and research training for resident physicians on developmental problems of the newborn. Approximately 35 percent of SLEH maternity patients are high-risk and the Baylor OB/GYN-staffed obstetrics service offers special expertise to these patients.

In a typical year, SLEH will have about 2,000 gynecology admissions and 3,000 in obstetrics.