Multiple pregnancy

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

• antenatal management
• intrapartum care
• complications of multiple pregnancies.

Dr Samina Mahsud-Dornan MRCOG (2016)

Dr Dornan is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and a sub-specialist in maternal–fetal medicine at the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast.

This course is intended to help clinicians gain core knowledge for O&G training and the MRCOG examinations. It can also be used by O&G consultants to refresh their knowledge of the area or for teaching.

The content of this course relates to the following Capabilities in Practice (CiPs) and key skills:

CiP 1: Clinical skills and patient care
Relevant to all key skills

CiP 2: Working in health organisations
Understand healthcare differences across the UK

CiP 3: Leadership
Effective use of resources

CiP 5: Human factors
Team working

CiP 6: Developing self & others
Commits to continued learning

CiP 9: Emergency gynaecology and early pregnancy
Manages other early pregnancy complications

CiP 10: Emergency Obstetrics
Manages pain and bleeding in pregnancy
Manages concerns about fetal wellbeing
Manages suspected pre-term labour/SROM
Manages labour
Manages intrapartum fetal surveillance
Manages induction, augmentation of labour
Manages emergency birth, postpartum problems

CiP 12: Non-emergency obstetrics
Manages conditions arising in pregnancy
Manages fetal concerns
Supports antenatal decision making
Manages a postnatal consultation

CiP 13: Non-discrimination and inclusion
Mental and physical health associations

CiP 14: Health Promotion
Promotes a healthy lifestyle
Promotes illness prevention
Understands impact of policy

Further details about each CiP can be found within the O&G Core Curriculum 2024 Definitive Document, available here.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Multiple Pregnancy: the management of twin and triplet pregnancies in the antenatal period. Clinical Guideline 129. London: NICE; 2011.

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Management of Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy. Green-top Guideline 51. London: RCOG Press; 2016.