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Welcome to the Bridgeport Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Training Program. Our OB Gyn residency is an ACGME-accredited training program in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Our program has been training exceptional generalists since 1946 and continues to ensure our graduates are confident to practice independently, and also able to pursue successful academic careers in a fellowship track if that is their professional goal.
As your Program Director, it is my responsibility and my pleasure to provide a quality educational experience and enable you to develop into a highly skilled physician, providing compassionate care to women through all stages of their lives.
It is our pleasure to provide you with valuable information about our curriculum, call schedule, faculty, residents and other common areas of interest.
The following statements represent the essential core of our focus during a resident’s training at Bridgeport Hospital:
Bridgeport Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Training Program participates fully in the National Residency Match Program currently with four positions available per year. We are seeking applicants with a strong commitment to patient care. Our program is highly selective. In addition to a strong academic record, we require our residents to have an evidence-based approach to clinical care, demonstrate a collaborative communication style, and show ownership in their work responsibilities. As we are a Yale-affiliated training program, it is expected that our residents will have an enthusiasm for teaching at all levels.
We offer quality obstetric training with exposure to full-time, on-site Maternal Fetal Medicine faculty. As a resident, you will also have access to a thorough and diverse surgical experience with procedure volumes well above national averages. In addition to the full range of general and subspecialty gynecologic surgeries, residents will be exposed to the newest minimally-invasive surgical techniques and gain extensive robotic surgery experience. Finally, there is a strong emphasis on outpatient experience in our Bridgeport Hospital Clinic.
Our residents will leave us fully trained as competent generalists in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Many have chosen to pursue highly successful careers in private practice. A sizeable number of our graduates have obtained additional training in a variety of subspecialties including Maternal Fetal Medicine, Female Pelvic Medicine and Reproductive Surgery, Gynecologic Oncology and Family Planning.
We hope you will find the information provided here useful and that you will strongly consider applying to our program for your training. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
- Jean Tornatore, MD
Program Director
As an ACGME program, we try to incorporate the concepts of the milestones into the design of the experiences for the years and into evaluations and expectations. The milestones that are used to assess where a resident is in his/her training spectrum, generally fall into the following sequence:
Our rotations try to mimic this progression. PGY-1 spend the majority of their time in rotations where they can develop strong initial assessment skills, and become confident in management of routine conditions. PGY-2 spend more time in rotations where they are managing more complex services and complicated patients. PGY-3 residents spend time honing their personal skills on complex patients and begin to become competent in supervision of other residents. Our PGY-4s spend time on their services, learning how to manage and run a multilevel team and a complex service of patients.
Bridgeport Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Training program has a robust didactic curriculum provided to the residents.
Resident didactic sessions are fully protected time, with coverage of clinical duties by faculty, private physicians and midlevel providers. The curriculum for the resident didactics follows a 2-year cycle of topics tied to ACGME competencies and the core CREOG Educational Objectives. The material is presented in a variety of ways, including chapter reviews, Grand Rounds, practical workshops, hands-on simulation, Tumor Board, specialty-specific conferences, GME office resident education series, OSCEs, Morbidity and Mortality Conferences and journal clubs.
Residents on vacation, away electives and night float are not expected to attend.
In addition to our hospital-based rotations, we encourage and support our residents who want to explore experiences outside of our hospital. It is important to be exposed to alternate experiences when trying to decide what to do after residency. We do not have any set opportunities that are organized and structured through the department, but we are able to help guide a resident through the process if they are interested in setting up an outside elective.
The Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Training Program utilizes a night float rotation for the majority of nighttime clinical coverage. Residents spend a total of approximately eight weeks on night float each of the four years of training. Each rotation consists of an upper and a lower level resident. The night shift team works 14-hour shifts for five days from Sunday night through Friday morning. There is full-time, in-house faculty supervision of the residents while on night float as well as dedicated obstetrical anesthesia. The remaining nights and weekends are broken into a Friday night/Sunday day shift and a 24-hour Saturday shift. On average, a resident will have two weekend shifts per month.
Although moonlighting is permitted, there are strict regulations that the work remains within the work hour regulations. It is unusual that a resident is able to make this work.
PGY 1
Tyler Brown MD, Saba University School of Medicine
Kimberly Hernandez MD, CUNY School of Medicine
Kristen Kuo MD, Tufts University School of Medicine
Amy Hackett MD, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine
PGY 2
Aysegul Gizem Imamoglu MD, Acibadem Universitesi Tip Fakultesi, Turkey
Erin Leigh Morhardt MD, Frank H. Netter, MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Jillian McKenzi Pesce MD, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Elizabeth Rodier MD, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
PGY 3
Koraima Cedeno MD, Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) School of Medicine Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
Graham Dersnah MD, American University of Caribbean School of Medicine, Sint Maarten
Arlene Gutman MD, University College Cork School of Medicine, Ireland
Kayla Smith MD, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DCa
PGY 4
Maddie Carmain MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Va.
Amani Alshekh Kouder MD, University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine, Syrian Arab Republic
Joanna Kukla MD, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Mich.
Lauren Roth MD, University of Queensland School of Medicine, Australia
2021
Rodrigo Fernandez Diaz, MD, Universidad Central de Venezuela Luis Razetti School of Medicine, Venezuela
Jane Morrison, MD, Saba University School of Medicine, Saba, Dutch Caribbean
Wafa Khadraoui, MD, American University of the Caribbean, Saint Maarten
Mio Sawai, MD, Kansai Medical School Osaka, Japan
Janice Soto-Morales, MD, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
2020
Dr. Ainsley McFadgen, private practice, part of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center health system, Chatauqua, New York
Dr. Andres Reig, REI Fellowship, IVIRMA, New Jersey
Dr. Erika Schaeffer, private practice, Milford, Connecticut
2019
Dr. Ashley Bellamy, private practice, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Dr. Joel Messom, private practice, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Dr. Saki Onda, private practice, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dr Ashley St Germain, private practice, Samaritan Health Services, Oregon
2018
Dr. Meryl Davis, private practice, Greensboro, North Carolina
Dr Christopher Hicks, private practice, Sarasota, Florida
Dr Craig Sauer, private practice, New Haven, Connecticut
2017
Dr. Mitchell Clark, private practice, New Haven, Connecticut
Dr. Eamon Felton, private practice, Nashville, Tennessee
Dr. Robert O'Sullivan, faculty, Bridgeport Hospital
Dr. Michelle Stoltzman, private practice, Sarasota, Florida
2016
Dr. Lily Bayat, private practice, New York
Dr. Perry Friedma, private practice, Royal Oak, Michigan
Dr. Tiffany Zigras, private practice, Ontario, Canada
2015
Dr. Joan Alvarez, private practice, Miami, Florida
Dr. Emily Baltes, private practice, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Dr. Maia Sharuk, laborist, Boston, MA
2014
Dr. Dallas Reed, faculty, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
Dr. Marneece Williams, private practice, Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Nwamaka Ugokwe, private practice, Brooklyn, New York