Obstetrics & Women’s Health Fellowship

Training Family Physicians for Advanced Obstetrics and Women’s Health Care

For family physicians who want advanced training in pregnancy care, delivery, operative obstetrics, high-risk OB, ultrasound, and women’s health procedures.

The Obstetrics & Women’s Health Fellowship is designed to equip family medicine physicians to care for women throughout pregnancy, delivery, and beyond. Fellows gain the experience needed to provide broad-scope women’s health care, manage higher-risk pregnancies, and perform key obstetrical and gynecologic procedures with growing confidence and independence.

This fellowship prepares physicians for communities where access to maternity care matters deeply and where family doctors with advanced OB training can help meet a critical need.

FELLOWSHIP Experience

Fellows receive focused training across Cahaba Medical Care clinics and hospital settings in both rural and urban communities.

Clinic training includes prenatal care, women’s health visits, obstetrical ultrasound, and continuity family medicine. Fellows participate in and eventually help lead prenatal clinics at multiple locations.

Hospital training includes obstetrical triage, labor management, deliveries, operative vaginal deliveries, cesarean sections, and care for pregnancy complications.

Fellows gain experience managing:

Labor rule-out
Decreased fetal movement
Possible rupture of membranes
Pregnancy loss
Inductions of labor
Spontaneous labor
Preterm labor
PPROM
Shoulder dystocia
Gestational diabetes
Preeclampsia
Cholestasis
Pregestational diabetes
Chronic hypertension
Multiple gestation
Thyroid disease
Autoimmune disorders

Procedures

Women’s Health procedures: Colposcopy, LEEP, IUD insertion and removal, Nexplanon insertion and removal, endometrial biopsy

Obstetrical Procedures: Operative vaginal deliveries, Cesarean section deliveries (with or without tubal ligations), Ultrasounds

Other: Circumcision

Fellow B has the opposite schedule (so when Fellow A is Week 1, Fellow B is Week 2 and then they switch). Week A is classically considered the “Jefferson County Week” so call Monday-Thursday is for deliveries in Jefferson County. Week B is “Bibb County Week” and call is Monday-Thursday for deliveries at Bibb Medical Center. Weekend call (Friday-Sunday) is for the entire organization and is every other weekend.

Program Location

Cahaba Medical Care Clinics

RURAL: Bibb/Perry County (Centreville, Woodstock, Marion locations)

URBAN: Jefferson County (Bessemer, West End, Ensley, Fairfield locations)

Hospitals

BIBB COUNTY: Bibb Medical Center

JEFFERSON COUNTY: UAB Medical West, St. Vincent’s

APPLICATION

Applicants must be board certified (or board eligible) in Family Medicine and have completed an ACGME accredited residency program by the start of the fellowship. Applicants must be US citizens or have valid work authorization; we do not accept or sponsor visas.

This fellowship is not ACGME accredited, but is recognized by the ABPS.

We will begin accepting applications on July 1, 2026.

Application deadline will be August 15, 2026.

Interviews will be conducted in the fall of 2026, with fellows confirmed by January 2027.

Fellowship will be one year in duration (July 2027 - June 2028).

Three(3) letters of recommendation (1 from your residency’s program director)
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Copy of USMLE or COMLEX transcript
Copy of medical school diploma
Copy of medical school transcript
Copy of current state medical licensure
Answers to the following:
- Write 1-2 paragraphs describing your long term career goals and your interest in women’s health and obstetrics.
- List any previous obstetrical experience
- Describe what you would like to gain from this fellowship

Submit a copy of your supporting materials to Brittany Hudson at brittany.hudson@cahabamedicalcare.com