The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to obstetrics:
Obstetrics – medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during
pregnancy (prenatal period),
childbirth and the
postnatal period.
What is obstetrics?
Obstetrics can be described as all of the following:
Medical specialty – branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.
Academic discipline – In addition to being a medical specialty, obstetrics is the study of the reproductive process within the female body, including fertilization, pregnancy and childbirth.
Mother – a woman who has raised a child, given birth to a child, and/or supplied the ovum that united with a sperm which grew into a child. During childbirth, she is the patient.
The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to obstetrics:
Obstetrics – medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during
pregnancy (prenatal period),
childbirth and the
postnatal period.
What is obstetrics?
Obstetrics can be described as all of the following:
Medical specialty – branch of medical science. After completing medical school, physicians or surgeons usually further their medical education in a specific specialty of medicine by completing a multiple year residency to become a medical specialist.
Academic discipline – In addition to being a medical specialty, obstetrics is the study of the reproductive process within the female body, including fertilization, pregnancy and childbirth.
Mother – a woman who has raised a child, given birth to a child, and/or supplied the ovum that united with a sperm which grew into a child. During childbirth, she is the patient.