Annual report : 1934 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.
- Society for the Lying-In Hospital
- Date:
- 1934
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Credit: Annual report : 1934 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![medical students from other universities and lastly instruction through staff conferences and Journal Club meetings to the whole attending and resident staffs, as well as many visitors. Our weekly Monday afternoon staff conferences which are open to physicians interested in hearing frank discussions of gynecological and obstetrical problems, are attended each week by fifty to sixty doctors some of whom are visitors from various parts of the country. This conference lasts from two to four hours and at present the departmental library, which is the largest room in the Lying-In Hospital, is filled to capacity at the time of these conferences. We believe that this type of teaching is the best form of post graduate instruction. We are firmly convinced that maternal mortality in the United States will be lowered only by two factors, better undergraduate teaching of the subject of obstetrics and gynecology in our medical schools and more intensive and more rigorously super¬ vised training of young doctors in our maternity hospitals. We have tried to meet these two specifications by having obstetrics and gynecology assume as important a role as surgery or medi¬ cine in the curriculum of the Cornell University Medical College and by instituting a five year hospital residency system for the training of medical graduates who wish to specialize in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. The Lying-In Hospital is always open to visiting doctors who wish to observe our work for a day, a week, or even months. We constantly have such visitors, and a few have spent long periods of time with us. The Ladies’ Auxiliary Board of the Lying-In Hospital sup¬ ported and directed the activities of our Social Service Depart¬ ment, which has worked in an exceedingly satisfactory manner, cooperating, to the interest of every patient, with the medical, nursing and clerical staffs. The Ladies’ Board has helped the Lying-In Hospital in other ways, particularly in providing funds for the rental of radium, and for the support of a special maternal health clinic. As a result we have, for the first time, been able to treat in a satisfactory manner many women suffering from cancer. We wish to express our deep gratitude to the Ladies’ Auxiliary Board of the Lying-In Hospital. [10]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31710979_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
