Gynecology And Obstetrics

Gynecology means medical peculiarity that highlights on a women’s care, whereas obstetrics highlights on the childbirth and provides care during antenatal as well as pregnancy accompaniment with care after post-partum. Gynecology unlike obstetrics is being geared in the direction of general healthcare of female along with focus upon organs of reproduction in female. Obstetrics’ specialists are known as obstetrician whereas gynecology’s specialists are known as gynecologist.

Obstetrics and gynecology’s abbreviations are OB-GYN, OBG or O&G. These medical-specialties deal with the reproductive-organs of female in her state of pregnancy as well as non pregnancy.

Sub specialties:

The examples regarding training of subspecialties which are provided to the physicians residing in United States are:

• Medicines for maternal fetal – Subspecialty of obstetrics, many a times also referred as a perinatology, which highlights on surgical and management regarding pregnancies of high risk as well as on fetus the surgery with target for reducing death rate and morbidity.
• Reproductive infertility and endocrinology – Subspecialty which focuses upon biological reasons as well as interventional infertility’s treatment.
• Oncology of Gynecology – Sub specialty of gynecology which focuses upon surgical and medical treatment which a women undergoes, who is having cancer in reproductive-organs.
• Reconstructive operation of pelvic and urogynecology – Subspecialty that focuses upon women’s surgical and diagnosis treatment with inconsistence in urine and pelvic-organ’s prolapse. Many a times referred as the Female-urology by the laypersons.
• Advanced surgery of laparoscopy.
• Family-planning – sub specialty of gynecology which offers training usually in termination of pregnancy / abortion and contraception.
• Geriatric and menopausal gynecology.

Among these starting four sub specialties only are recognized truly by ACGME as well as ABOG, whereas we recognize other specialties as an informal practice’s concentration.

Usually gynecology’s and obstetrics’ practitioner are called as gyn/ob who are usually women. Because gynecology and obstetrics deals mostly with the sensitive issues of female so most of the patients prefer visiting a female physician.

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