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DALLAS -- There's no 'July phenomenon m obstetrics, Dr. Thomas D. Myles said at the annual meeting of the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Every July, a new group of residents begins training. Veteran physicians joke that it's a risky time to be a patient in an academic medical center, as these newly minted doctors begin learning by doing.
But that's not true with respect to intrapartum outcomes, said Dr. Myles, director of maternal-fetal medicine at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center at Amarillo.
He evaluated the delivery records of 7,814 obstetric patients at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago over a 3-year period. The rate of cesarean sections was significantly higher during the first semester, July-December, than during January-June, by a margin of 15.8% vs. 14.3%. However, this ...