Advocacy

Saint Joe’s is committed to advocacy work on a local and national level. Each year our residents are relieved of clinical duties to attend the Colorado State Lobby Day at the Colorado State Capitol, a few blocks away from the hospital, where we meet with local representatives to advocate for state-wide legislature to better women’s health. In past years, we have lobbied to extend FMLA coverage for better maternity leave options and improved contraceptive coverage.

Our residents work closely with ACOG Colorado, who each year generously sponsor residents from both St Joe’s and CU to attend the national ACOG Congressional Leadership Conference. This conference is an excellent opportunity to learn the basics of advocacy, how-to lobby sessions, and ultimately meet our state senators and representatives to lobby for national bills affecting women’s health. In past years, we have lobbied for and helped pass legislation to establish funding for Maternal Mortality Review Committees in all 50 states to address our nation's increasing maternal mortality rate, to extend Medicaid coverage for pregnancy through one year postpartum, and to increase NIH funding for research into women’s health diseases.

Rotation schedule

The overall educational objectives of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program at Saint Joseph Hospital are based on Educational Objectives: Core Curriculum in Obstetrics and Gynecology as published by the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. This format is reviewed with each new edition and continues to allow for the training of physicians in the primary and preventive care of women, pregnancy, and the female reproductive system.

We expect our physicians to be able to evaluate the general healthcare needs of women, and deviations from normal in women so that they can appropriately refer to other specialists. We strive for compliance with all aspects of the RRC Requirements.

Admission is highly competitive, and applicants must have passed USMLE or COMLEX Step 1. Applications are submitted via ResidencyCAS, and interviews are scheduled in November and December.

Our program uses only ResidencyCAS for the application process, which requires electronic submissions. For any questions related to using ResidencyCAS, please contact their support team. You can find more information about ResidencyCAS here.

The following information is required for your application to be accepted for review:

• Personal statement
• Dean's letter
• Medical school transcript
• USMLE Step 1: Pass (COMLEX scores will not be accepted)
• Three letters of recommendation. One of these must be from a practicing, board-certified OB-Gyn physician.

If you have postgraduate training, a letter of recommendation and/or evaluation from the program director is required.

Please note that it is a requirement of our program for residents to be licensed by the State of Colorado, Board of Medical Examiners by the end of the second year of training. The Colorado Board website has further information on this requirement.

Applicants applying to St. Joseph Hospital OB/GYN Residency Program are encouraged to complete Casper and Duet through Acuity insights (formerly Altus Assessments).

Acuity Insights is a standardized, multi-part online assessment that measures different competencies and attributes that we believe are important for successful students and graduates of our program. Acuity Insights will complement the other tools we use for applicant review and evaluation. In implementing Acuity Insights, we are trying to further enhance fairness and objectivity in our selection process.

To complete the assessments, visit acuityinsights.app to create an account and register to complete the following assessments:

• Casper: 100-120 minute online, open-response situational judgment test
• Duet: 15-minute value-alignment assessment

We offer a competitive salary and full range of benefits including:

• Generous health care package for residents and their families
• 401k retirement plan
• Malpractice insurance
• Paid time off for vacation and sick time
• Education fund
• and more!

More details are available in the document linked below.

We like to think of our residency as a family.

We love spending time together outside of work for holidays, birthdays, weddings, or just because. We are excited that you are considering joining our family here at Saint Joe's!

Here at Saint Joe's, we have many traditions that make our residency special. For example, every year, each class gets their dedicated class weekend off, allowing for a class trip altogether. There's also the long-standing tradition of post-night shift brunch on Friday mornings during the night's rotation, which is something we all look forward to each week.

In the fall, we hold our annual resident retreat where all the residents and attendings have the opportunity to spend time together outside of the clinical setting. In the past, we have done ropes courses, rock climbing, and trampoline parks. We typically also spend time in a cabin in the mountains afterward and end the night with our tradition of a themed costume party.

In the spring, we have our annual "Spring Fling." This residency tradition is a special event where we all dress up and gather with family, friends, alumni, and faculty to celebrate and honor the graduating class.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology welcomes medical students from accredited U.S. or Canadian medical schools who are strongly considering OB/GYN as a career. The rotations are four weeks long and include both inpatient and outpatient care. Students work closely with house staff to ensure sufficient patient contact. Students attend all OB/GYN educational conferences.

We accept students starting July 1 through January 31. We will accept applications starting on March 1 through May 1 and will alert all students of their application status before June 1. We will accept applications through the VSLO program. Please contact us directly if you have any barriers to applying through this program. We will also accept applications emailed directly to the program.