Offline Course Details

Eligibility

• Doctors specialized in Obstetrics and Gynecology with a minimum experience of 3 years in dealing with infertility issues.
• Physicians familiar with OI (Ovulation Induction) & IUI (Intra Uterine Insemination) procedures using stimulation with gonadotropins.
• Experience in trans-vaginal ultrasound for follicular tracking.

Course Curriculum

• How to select the appropriate pharmacotherapy protocols for ovulation induction and controlled ovarian stimulation cycles based on patient response.
• Discuss assisted reproductive technologies- including IVF and ICSI
• Sperm preparation techniques
• Embryo cryopreservation
• Describe the physiology of first trimester embryo and fetal development
• Monitoring of infertility therapy-conceived pregnancies
• Approaches to ovarian stimulation in patients with PCOS (Polycystic ovarian syndrome)
• Management of poor responders
• Identify patients at increased risk of genetic disorders, and common indications and techniques for genetic screening, testing and counseling.
• Define third party reproduction and identify appropriate screening
• Informed consent and counseling
• Unexplained Infertility
• Surrogacy
• Summarize principles of bioethics, and discuss ethical dilemmas, and religious traditions as they apply to infertility treatment.
• ART and Legal Issues
• Recurrent implantation failure
• Components of patient education and counseling- issues related to multiple gestation