womens' health vs OBGYN

[mamagir]

Hello everyone. so I have two questions. Are womens' health and OBGYN synonymous? If not can someone make a distinction?
second question is do you think its possible or wise to go into obgyn without having a particular love for surgery?

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[Biology101]

Hello everyone. so I have two questions. Are womens' health and OBGYN synonymous? If not can someone make a distinction?
second question is do you think its possible or wise to go into obgyn without having a particular love for surgery?

I would also like to know this, more specifically if one can do more OB and then transition later into something other than surgical gyn

 

[THP]

Hello everyone. so I have two questions. Are womens' health and OBGYN synonymous? If not can someone make a distinction?
second question is do you think its possible or wise to go into obgyn without having a particular love for surgery?

What do you mean by "women's health?" If you don't want to do surgery that is fine, although residency might be annoying for you. There are definitely gynecologist who just do outpatient GYN. You mostly take care of women in perimenopause and maybe some in-office procedures such as colpo and LEEPs. Probably do a lot of paps and write for birth control, manage dysfunctional uterine bleeding. The downside is you will develop a relationship with a patient and not be able to offer her a definitive solution through surgery.

There are docs in the community here who specialize in menopause and HRT actually trained in internal medicine as well as vulvar dermatoses that are trained in dermatology. You can make your practice what you want.

 

[mamagir]

" What do you mean by "women's health?" ''
That was kind of my question I guess. Do OBGYNs nowadays also treat medical problems in women? Its just that I always see the term kind of separate. I understand OBGYNs are classified as primary care here whereas where I trained OBGYNs are specialists. So am I right to assume the primary care aspect is what the term ''women's health" represents?

As per my second question I understand I can make my practice what I want at the end. It's residency I am concerned about. I really do like obgyn and dont mind doing the surgery but just concerned I may not be really good at it or something. In fact if I were to train as an OBGYN and then return to my country I would be consulted mainly for all the surgical aspects of it.