Residency Program
Department Chairman: Robert S. Schenken, M.D., Professor
Director of Residency Program: Elly M-J. Xenakis, M.D., Professor
Residency Coordinator: Karin J. Brewer
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio offers a fully accredited four-year training program in Obstetrics and Gynecology that fulfills the requirements of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology for specialty certification.
This program is conducted primarily at University Health System facilities (University Hospital and University Health Center Downtown), with an additional gynecology rotation at an affiliated San Antonio hospital (Metropolitan Methodist Hospital). The training is supervised by full-time faculty and part-time faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Our faculty include members certified in the subspecialties of Gynecologic Oncology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Clinical Genetics, and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.
The University Health System teaching facility is tax-supported, with approved residency programs in all specialties. Facilities of the University Health System include University Hospital - a fully-accredited 547-bed hospital and University Health Center Downtown - an outpatient clinic facility located eight miles from the hospital. These facilities serve as the teaching hospital and clinical center of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, which is adjacent to University Hospital. Patients are cared for directly by residents with faculty supervision.
Metropolitan Methodist Hospital is located within ten miles of the University Hospital. Residents participate in the management of private patients and perform gynecological surgery at this institution under the supervision of a Clinical Professor.
Second and third-year residents have the option of spending one month on a selective gynecology rotation associated with our Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen, TX.