Harvard 61st Annual Update in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2025 (Videos with subtitles + Slides)

Obstetrics, Infertility, Difficult Deliveries, Adolescent Gynecology, Urogynecology, MIGS, Menopause Management, Reproductive Endocrinology, Gynecologic Oncology in General Practice, and Management of High-Risk Patients

The 61st Annual Update: Obstetrics and Gynecology 2025 will be held March 7 – 12, 2025. You can attend online as the course is live streamed, or in person in Boston, MA. All sessions will be recorded and made available to all participants to view online, at your convenience.

OVERVIEW

Much has changed in the field of obstetrics and gynecology in the past year, with significant implications for clinicians. This special update on diagnosis and treatment of the reproductive health of women across their lifespan, designed and presented by Harvard Medical School’s leading faculty and master clinicians, ensures you are current with these changes.

Education is practical, offering updates and practice recommendations that you can immediately incorporate into daily practice to optimize patient care and outcomes.

Unique to this program is the ability to customize your learning experience for your specific areas of interest:

• Clinical obstetrics
• Minimally invasive gynecologic surgery
• Urogynecology
• Gynecologic oncology
• Reproductive endocrinology and infertility
• Adolescent gynecology
• Menopause management
• High-risk patients
• Difficult deliveries
• Advances in diagnostic equipment and techniques

UPDATES and STATE-OF-THE-ART PRACTICES

Education is comprehensive, designed to ensure attendees are current with 2025 updates and state-of-the-art practices. Coverage includes:

• Managing patients with prior preterm birth, labor complications, or preeclampsia
• Abortion and early pregnancy loss
• Maternal mental health
• Fetal anatomy
• Gynecologic pelvic pain
• Hysterectomy best practices
• Infertility workup updates
• Menopause management in 2025
• Cervical cancer prevention and vulvar lesions
• Surgical management of endometriosis
• Placenta accreta syndrome
• Hemorrhage best practices
• Gynecologic cancers in resource-limited regions
• Ovulation induction challenges
• IVF updates
• New avenues for fetal therapy
• Obesity, diabetes, and pregnancy
• Interconception care
• Overactive bladder management
• Endometrial and cervical cancer management
• Care of non-binary or trans patients
• Osteoporosis treatment
• Gestational trophoblastic disease
• Management of the adnexal mass
• C-sections and labor inductions
• Impact of obesity on gynecologic oncology care
• Recurrent pregnancy loss: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
• Management of PCOS, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis
• Postpartum hypertension
• Preventing and managing laparoscopic complications
• Counseling patients about cancer screening, testing, and risk reduction
• Pediatric and adolescent gynecologic cases
• Treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding
• Robotic surgery in benign gynecology
• Urogynecology for the general OB/GYN
• Respectful maternity care

RESULTS-DRIVEN EDUCATION

The lectures, interactive discussions, and clinical skills-development sessions are presented by clinical leaders in their respective subspecialties.

Participants can rely on this program for:

• Important updates that optimize the reproductive health of women across their lifespan
• State-of-the-art approaches to clinical challenges
• Guidance to navigate diagnostic options
• Best practices to optimize treatment plans
• Drug and device updates
• Strategies for high-risk patients
• Education on imaging advances and their implications for clinical practice
• New therapy protocols
• Guidance for when to treat and when to refer

Customize Your Learning Experience

The core curriculum is available as three separate two-day sections, each covering a different area of obstetric and gynecologic practice:

Clinical Obstetrics: 
March 7–8, 2025

Coverage includes:

• Twins, placenta accreta, and other high-risk pregnancies
• Labor planning, induction, breech deliveries, and other complex delivery issues
• Managing weight gain in pregnancy
• Prenatal genetic screening and diagnosis
• Maternal hypertension
• Practical update of STIs
• Depression during and after pregnancy: how to detect and resources for management
• Optimizing the next pregnancy after preterm delivery, hypertension, cervical insufficiency, and stillbirth
• Postpartum care and maternal health
• Equitable abortion care

Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Urogynecology, and Gynecologic Oncology:
March 9–10, 2025

Coverage includes:

• Fibroids, sarcomas, and patient counseling
• Surgical management of fibroids
• Complications in laparoscopic surgery and their management
• Gynecologic pelvic pain: etiologies, diagnosis, algorithms for referral and treatment
• Diagnosis of overactive bladder
• Robotic surgery tips and tricks
• Conservative and advanced management of overactive bladder
• Management of urinary tract injuries during surgery
• Best practices for vaginal hysterectomy
• Tools to prevent and treat surgical complications
• How to manage ovarian masses
• Vulvar lesions: diagnosis and treatment
• Preventing cervical cancer
• Care of women with gynecologic cancers in resource-limited regions
• Fertility-sparing options in uterine neoplasia
• The latest in trophoblastic disease
• Impact of obesity on gynecologic oncology care
• Counseling patients about cancer screening and risk reduction

Infertility, Menopause, and Reproductive Endocrinology:
March 11–12, 2025

Coverage includes:

• The latest cost-effective workup for infertility
• Ovulation induction
• Guidance on when to make a referral for IVF
• Recurrent pregnancy loss
• Common reproductive endocrine disorders
• Genetics and infertility
• Egg freezing for women who wish to preserve fertility options
• Hyperandrogenism and polycystic ovary syndrome
• Congenital anomalies of the reproductive tract
• Managing the health concerns of menopausal women
• Sexual dysfunction in women
• Osteoporosis
• Management of fibroids
• Endometriosis-associated pelvic pain
• Pediatric and adolescent gynecology, and care of non-binary patients