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USF Fellowship Program Loses Accreditation

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By LINDSAY PETERSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 20, 2009

TAMPA - A fellowship program at the University of South Florida for doctors specializing in risky pregnancies has lost its national accreditation.

USF officials are appealing the findings of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They said the problems are largely the result of miscommunication and improvements are being made.

The program provides specialty training to three doctors in obstetrics and gynecology every three years. They spend one year doing clinical work and the other two in research and scholarly development.

The obstetrics and gynecology board took issue with the clinical portion, saying after a site visit in October that the fellows were seeing too many patients without proper supervision.

David Keefe, chairman of the USF obstetrics and gynecology department, responded that the program had changed before the site visit to provide an attending doctor in the clinic with the fellows.

He requested another site visit to "redress the miscommunications which occurred with the recent one, and to demonstrate these improvements to the division."

Reporter Lindsay Peterson can be reached at (813) 259-7834.

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