Patient Care
Members of the Division of Gynecology provide patient care at both the Women's Health Group at the Medical Plaza and at the Park Avenue Women's Center. Specialized clinics designed to treat patients with specific problems include the Urogynecology and Colposcopy clinics. Gynecology faculty also provides supervision to the OB-GYN residents in their weekly Continuity of Care Clinics. In these clinics, residents see patients with a wide variety of gynecologic problems, referred from the surrounding 16 county rural population of North Central Florida, as well as from southern Georgia and other areas of the country. The Gynecology Division performs a broad array of basic and advanced gynecologic surgical procedures.
Urogynecology Clinic: The Urogynecology Clinic, staffed by Patty McKey, M.S.N., has been a major source of divisional accomplishment. Patients are referred to Urogynecology from not only the general Gynecology clinic but from throughout the hospital and surrounding areas. Advertised widely, this clinic is utilized by local physicians in addition to university physicians. Full urogynecologic evaluation is available including five channel cystometrograms and urethral pressure profiles, cystoscopy, urethroscopy, and uroflowmetry, augmented by extensive urolog evaluation. Discussion is held concerning surgery for incontinence problems, which range from stress incontinence to vesico-vaginal fistulae repair, and patients are presented at the Urogynecology conference, where final decisions on surgical therapy are made. This clinic serves as a major source for resident training in urogynecologic evaluation and surgery. Each graduating resident is trained in performing urethral suspensions and enters practice well prepared to evaluate and treat urinary incontinence.
Colposcopy Clinic: Colposcopy Clinic serves as the tertiary referral clinic for premalignant lesions of the vulva, vagina and cervix. Diagnostic capabilities include the usual colposcopic evaluation with appropriate biopsies. Therapeutic interventions include laser capability, loop electrical excisions, and cryotherapy. Clinical experience with the loop electrical excision has served as the basis for lectures to various organizations such as the Florida and Georgia Medical Association. Current clinical and laboratory research is underway to evaluate this emerging mode of therapy for cervical dysplasia in the United States. Colposcopic screening has also extended beyond the weekly Colposcopy Clinic, with nurse practitioners providing additional clinics at the University of Florida Clinics. Outlying health units are also supplied by nurse practitioners trained at the UF who provide colposcopic screening and biopsies which are reviewed by the Director of Colposcopy at the University of Florida.
Gynecologic Surgery: Surgical training is accomplished at the University of Florida Shands Hospital and Shands at Alachua General Hospital, as well as North Florida Regional Medical Center. Working under the direct supervision of faculty members, residents are trained in both basic and advanced gynecologic surgical techniques, including advanced laparoscopic procedures and pelvic reconstructive surgery. The division places a strong emphasis on training in the art of vaginal surgery.
Location: http://www.obgyn.ufl.edu/GYN/patient.shtml