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Women’s Wellness: American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists opens its 2015 Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting this weekend.

Samantha Whitehorne

April 30, 2015

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The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists opens its 2015 Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting this weekend.

San Francisco will be the place to be this weekend for the 11,000 headed to the 2015 ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting  (opens in a new tab). This year’s conference has a new theme, “Teaming Up for Women’s Health,” and a number of other additions, like more surgical tutorials and days focused on specific practice areas.

Association: American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Conference: 2015 ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting

Venue: Moscone Center

Kicking off the conference is Robert M. Wah, MD, president of the American Medical Association, who will speak on improving women’s healthcare with teamwork, organized medicine, and technology. Here are three other highlights:

IQ points. In a new fun and interactive session called “Are You Smarter Than a Junior Fellow?,” two well-known professors will challenge two young physicians to see who is wiser than a team of residents.

Find a job. This year’s meeting will feature the first-ever ACOG Career Fair. Attendees can network with several potential employers in the exhibit hall and review literature about employment opportunities in a no-pressure environment. Even better: If a job seeker finds a match, he or she can set up private one-on-one interviews.

Power of partners. ACOG recognized the knowledge and expertise its subspecialty societies have, so it collaborated with 10 of them and is giving each the opportunity to offer a three-hour education session during the conferences. The groups include the Society of Family Planning and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

If you want to examine more of the meeting, ACOG’s social spaces, including Facebook  (opens in a new tab) and Twitter  (opens in a new tab) (#ACOG2015  (opens in a new tab)) will give you the scoop. (Also, take a peek at the President’s Blog  (opens in a new tab) for even more insider information.)