Waitakere Hospital Site Map
Gynaecology Clinic (WTK)
How to get there
Instructions on where the clinic is located. Ground floor - Opposite Medical Day Stay - Patients are in reception 2.
Photo of Corridor
Preparing to attend
Look up the patients before you arrive using clinical portal.
Make sure you arrive early, before the clinic starts
Revise ‘How to do a Pelvic Examination’
When you arrive
Introduce yourself to the reception staff, say you are here to sit in with the doctor. Ask where you should wait.
When the doctor arrives, introduce yourself. Say that you have looked up the cases.
What you might be able to do from the logbook
Conduct a speculum/bimanual examination/swabs/smear
Assessment of clinical conditions eg Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, Incontinence (See Page 8-9)
Other opportunities to look out for
Interpret Pelvic USS report
Learn how to explain findings eg Adenomyosis, Fibroids