WELCOME TO THE ORANGE COUNTY, CA
OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY SOCIETY

The Orange County Obstetrical and Gynecological Society is the principal organization serving the Orange County area through which obstetricians and gynecologists from academic centers (specifically, the University of California, Irvine Medical Center), private community practice and the Kaiser (HMO)-contracted Southern California Permanente Medical Group are brought together on a regular collegial basis to pursue educational activities directly suited to the needs of practicing obstetricians and gynecologists.

The Society was initially accredited to provide Category 1 CME to its constituency in the 1980s and has endeavored to keep its commitment to present high quality CME activities for the membership.

The CME Program is under the leadership of the President and the Vice President who chair the committee meetings. The committee also consists of the Secretary/Treasurer and Immediate Past President. The committee is assisted by the CME coordinator in scheduling, planning and implementing the CME Program. They integrate the needs of the members through the continuous surveys and recruitment of expert faculty who can meet the educational objectives in an unbiased manner.

The CME committee surveys the membership asking for their perceived needs and considers suggestions from the evaluation forms submitted by their members. The committee members bring information from their involvement at national meetings, professional meetings, hospitals, as well as from ongoing scrutiny of the evidence-based medical literature for new techniques, drugs, government regulations and patient care standards update.

Orange County is a vast urban metropolis containing a mix of ethnicities and encompassing the entire spectrum of household income levels. As a consequence, obstetricians and gynecologists who practice in this area have a varied and diverse patient population and treat a multitude of conditions which may arise in pregnancy as well as a host of gynecologic diseases that manifest in the non-pregnant state. Thus it becomes imperative to the mission statement of the Society that the education needs for CME be met by tapping local regional talent (UCI, UCLA, USC, UCSD, Kaiser) as the physician base continues to grow with the Orange County population.