The Maternal Child Health (MCH) Fellowship Program is a collaboration between the Family and Community Medicine and Obstetrics/Gynecology Residency programs at UCSF Fresno. This 1-year fellowship is aimed at providing family medicine residency graduates with an extended spectrum of surgical obstetrics training along with a deeper experience with newborn care. Fellows receive hands-on training in operative delivery, high-risk antepartum care, and care of the ill newborn. The principal training sites for this fellowship are the Community Medical Centers (CMC) hospitals located in Downtown Fresno and Clovis. The outpatient partners include several large community clinic systems across Fresno County where we provide full-spectrum perinatal care.
The MCH fellows enter the program receiving a faculty appointment at the level of clinical instructor within the department of Family and Community Medicine. Fellows spend the majority of their time on the labor and delivery unit at CMC hospitals under the supervision of obstetrical faculty and work with UCSF Fresno Family Medicine and OBGYN residents. Rounding out the experience includes time in the high-risk perinatal clinic at the University Women’s Specialty Center providing high risk antepartum care and enhancing antenatal ultrasound skills alongside experienced maternal-fetal-medicine faculty. A 4-week intensive block at the Community Regional Medical Center level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit completes the core requirements for the experience, providing care with board certified neonatologists. Elective opportunities are available, including opportunities with other family medicine-obstetrics faculty to participate in monthly case conferences, learn addiction care, and work alongside the Public Health department’s Perinatal Substance Use Disorder Taskforce for Fresno County. Fellows also contribute to perinatal care at rural community clinic sites, have both inpatient and outpatient family medicine-obstetrics supervisory, and teaching responsibilities with the Family Medicine Residency Program throughout the year. The MCH fellows receive faculty development as family medicine faculty and will lead FMOB case reviews during resident didactics. The MCH fellows have access to resources to participate in a required research experience and related scholarly projects in maternal-child care.
Applicants
Fellowship applicants must have completed a Family Medicine residency program and be ABFM board-certified to participate in the program. Applicants must also have a demonstrated interest in maternal child health. One or two highly qualified fellows will be selected each year.
Note: The program is going to start taking applications for the 2026-27 academic year starting the fall of 2025.
Applicants interested in working with our department’s FMOB team should consider the HEAL Initiative Global Health fellowship opportunity:
https://healinitiative.org/fellowship-overview/rotating-fellow-apply/
Our FMOB leadership in the news:
https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/med-watch-today/medwatch-today-reducing-opioid-use-in-ld/
Contact Us
Reach out to MCH fellowship co-directors
Dr. Khan: [email protected] and Dr. Linscheid: [email protected]
Ivan Gomez, MD
