Overview

The Sea Mar FMOB Surgical Obstetrics Fellowship
is a partnership between Sea Mar Community Health Centers and Providence
Regional Medical Center OB/GYN Department. It is a one-year experience focused
on high-risk and surgical obstetrics.

In the hospital, fellows manage complicated
antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients with full time supervision
from OB/GYN faculty and Sea Mar FMOB faculty. They play a vital leadership role
on the labor and delivery team and are responsible for resident teaching. They
act as primary surgeon on the majority of C-Sections with supervision from
OB/GYN and Sea Mar FMOB surgical attendings.

In the outpatient setting, fellows serve as
junior faculty at Sea Mar Community Health Centers, independently caring for
their own panel of family medicine patients and precepting residents in their
continuity clinic.  They work in Sea
Mar’s Complicated OB Clinic and Ultrasound Clinics, learning to perform dating,
anatomic screening, and growth ultrasounds.

Skills and Experience

Typical procedure numbers for a fellowship year:

C-section, primary surgeon – 100-150

Vaginal deliveries >50

Operative vaginal deliveries – 10-15

Fellows also gain experience with skills such as
external cephalic version, breech delivery, twin delivery, and assisting on
cesarean hysterectomy if the opportunity arises.

Schedule:

The fellowship has a unique schedule with
alternating weeks spent on the labor floor and in clinic. On labor &
delivery weeks, fellows complete 5 shifts varying from 12 hours to 24 hours in
length. Fellows may opt to add other experiences such as Family Medicine
Teaching Service attending weeks, NICU rotations, and office procedure clinics.

Teaching:

Fellows take part in monthly didactics and skills
workshops with FM-OB and OB/GYN faculty. They also work with FM-OB faculty and
present to residents at their bimonthly OB-focused didactics and ALSO provider
course. Fellows are involved with quality improvement work and participate in
relevant hospital committees.

Directors:

Dr. Joanna Stephens is on the
faculty at Sea Mar Marysville Family Medicine residency program. She is a
family physician with fellowship training in maternal child health and surgical
obstetrics. She studied International Relations with a focus on global public
health at the College of William and Mary. Prior to medical school, she spent a
year in the Côte d’Ivoire on a Fulbright Fellowship researching breastfeeding
among HIV positive women in Abidjan and volunteering in the maternity ward of a
public hospital. It was there that she developed her interest in maternal child
health and its role in the health of communities. She completed medical school
and residency in family medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She then went
on to complete a fellowship in maternal child health and surgical obstetrics at
the University of Rochester in New York. Dr. Stephens speaks French and
Spanish, and has also studied and volunteered in South Africa, Botswana,
Argentina, and Guatemala. Her clinical interests include refugee and migration
health as well as improving equitable access to safe obstetric care.

Dr. Anne Camber is an obstetrician
with Providence Medical Group at Providence Pavilion for Women
and Children. She is from Oakland, California and has an undergraduate degree
in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley. Her medical degree
is from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. She completed residency
at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland California. She has extensive experience with
both inner city and rural medicine, having practiced in both Stockton,
California and Libby, Montana. She enjoys teaching obstetrics to residents and
medical students.

Prior Fellows’ Destinations after Graduation:

2020-2021

Zeena Al-Tai, MD

Medical School:         

University of Queensland, Australia

Residency:                 

Sea Mar Marysville Family Medicine Residency

Post Fellowship:         

FMOB with C-Section privileges at Community Memorial Hospital, Ventura, California

FMOB with C-Section privileges at St John’s Regional Medical Center, Oxnard, California

Kirsten Hansen, MD

Medical School:         

University of Washington School of Medicine

Residency:                 

Sea Mar Marysville Family Medicine Residency

Post Fellowship:        

FMOB with C-Section privileges at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center, Bellingham, Washington

2021-2022

Claire Fletcher, MD

Medical School:         

University of Kentucky School of Medicine

Residency:                 

Sea Mar Marysville Family Medicine Residency

Post Fellowship:

FMOB with C-Section privileges at Glacial Ridge Medical Center, Glenwood, Minnesota

Jenna Schmidt, MD

Medical School:         

University of Washington School of Medicine

Residency:                 

Sea Mar Marysville Family Medicine Residency

Post Fellowship:

FMOB with C-Section privileges at Bartlett Regional Hospital, Juneau, Alaska

Current Fellows:

2022-2023

Dr. Ana Cornea, MD

Dr. Cornea graduated as chief resident from the Sea Mar Marysville Family Medicine Residency Program. She attended the University of Washington School of Medicine and has been an outstanding leader both on and off the labor floor during her residency at Sea Mar. She intends to practice in the Pacific Northwest at a community health center working with underserved populations. She is passionate about women’s health and full spectrum family medicine.

Dr. Rashmi Sharma, MD

Dr. Sharma graduated from Louisiana State University Family Medicine Residency in Shreveport, LA. She is originally from Nepal and graduated from Kathmandu Medical College. She has extensive global health experience, and has worked as a physician for Doctors Without Borders in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. She has a Masters in International Health from the Swiss Tropical Institute where her thesis focused on maternal mortality in Nepal. She also completed a fellowship in Disaster Medicine at Brown University. She came to the US to gain further residency training at Louisiana State University, and now is pursuing surgical obstetric training so that she can provide higher level OB care internationally in her global health career.