• Fellows teach residents and health professional students and have the opportunity to develop and strengthen mentorship and educational skills.
• Fellows take call from home, but are expected to be first-call when on call with the support of attending backup to serve as MFM consultants to OHSU and the greater medical community.
• The OHSU MFM faculty provide strong mentorship for fellows and each fellow has an individualized Scholarship Advisory Committee dedicated to research and thesis support and achieving professional development goals.
• Clinically our program is well balanced with dedicated complex diabetes and adult congenital heart disease multidisciplinary clinics as well as immersion in prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy clinic. Our fetal therapy program has two fetal surgeons and fellows are involved in all fetal procedures.
• At OHSU, as an MFM Fellow, you have the opportunity to complete a combined Maternal Fetal Medicine and Medical Genetics Fellowship. In this dual program, we aim to provide learners with the tools to become leaders in the field of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Medical Genetics; to utilize skills and education in MFM and Medical Genetics to improve maternal and fetal care in pregnancy and for life. Learn more about the MFM/MMG Combined Fellowship.
• Fellows are offered opportunities to further develop as academic clinicians including lecturing, participating in writing literature reviews, acting as manuscript reviewers, and pursuing either a Master's degree or a certificate in research.
• Fellows participate in quality improvement projects as required and for those interested in a career path in advocacy or quality improvement, we have faculty mentorship and professional development opportunities to work in our health system, with our statewide perinatal quality collaborative, and on health policy.
• Fellows enjoy protected time to attend conferences, sit for the general OB/GYN oral board exam, and other opportunities for professional development in MFM (such as the Perinatal Research Society Young Investigators workshop and NICHD Young Investigators Conference).
• The opportunity to see how accurate "Portlandia" actually is while living in one of the most beautiful parts of the county.

Mentorship is provided by the MFM division. Group fellowship meetings are held monthly with Dr. Valent to discuss fellowship-related issues. In addition, the fellowship program director meets with each fellow individually on a biannual basis (or more frequently if needed) to review the progress of his/her research and professional development. Each fellow has a Scholarship Advisory Committee that is individualized to provide additional mentorship for research and professional growth and development.

Although fellows achieve autonomy in the provision of outpatient and inpatient clinical care and fetal ultrasound, MFM faculty are always readily available for support, questions, and teaching. MFM faculty provides additional mentorship to facilitate and support fellow research during project development, recruitment, statistical analysis, publication, and thesis preparation.

Fellowship education

As education is a top priority, fellows have protected time for all educational activities.

Human Investigations Program (HIP): The primary objective of the HIP program is to increase the number and level of competency of patient-oriented clinical investigators and the course is directed toward young investigators and fellows. Prior fellows have all completed the HIP program successfully during their fellowship. There are two tracks within the HIP program, successful completion leads to either a graduate Certificate of Human Investigation or a Masters of Clinical Research awarded by OHSU.

Certificate of Human Investigation: The university supports a free two-year course-work based program specifically directed toward creating clinician-researchers. It is an integrated clinical and translational research education curriculum.

Master of Clinical Research (MCR): The three-year OHSU MCR program provides formal training for clinicians and scientists who desire to make clinical and translational research a prominent part of their long-term career goal.

Conferences

Fellow education is highly important; fellows are expected to participate in regular conferences including:

• Annual national meetings including Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Society of Reproductive Investigation
• Weekly MFM division meeting and fellow didactics, multidisciplinary Fetal Therapy Conference, and Oregon Perinatal and Neonatal Network conference
• Monthly perinatal ultrasound conference and division research meeting
• Bimonthly MFM journal club, joint neonatology and MFM meeting, joint neonatology, pediatric cardiology, and MFM conference, and joint MFM and adult congenital heart disease conference

Second Fellow Position

OHSU MFM Fellowship Program has the ability to accommodate a total of four fellows. There are two graduating fellows, one 2nd year fellow, one 1st year fellow and two incoming fellows. We will be matching one fellow this year.

All required residency education for entry into ACGME-accredited fellowship programs must be completed in an ACGME-accredited residency program, or in an RCPSC-accredited or CFPC-accredited program located in Canada.

CREOG scores are not required.

A complete application must include:

• ERAS application
• CV
• Official transcripts
• MSPE (Dean's letter)
• Personal statement
• Photo
• USMLE/COMLEX
• ECFMG (if visa sponsorship is required)
• 3 Letters of recommendation (1 must be from Director of your OBGYN Residency Program)

Important dates:

• Monday, May 1: Deadline for applications to be included in the first notification
• Monday, May 15: Single notification date for interviews
• Monday, May 21: Initial deadline to accept or decline interviews

2023 Interview dates:

• Friday morning, June, 30
• Wednesday morning, July 12
• Monday morning, July 17

The Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship program encourages applicants from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in medicine to apply.

All interviews are virtual.

Questions?

To contact the fellowship program, please email obgynfellowship@ohsu.edu with your subspecialty in the subject line.

To apply online please visit the ERAS website.