This episode will be presented from a physician’s perspective. Learners will act as a family physician or a gynecologist in a busy clinic where they will encounter a post-menopausal patient who will present with a sense of pelvic pressure or heaviness. The importance of knowledge about pelvic organ prolapse (POP) will be explained to learners as well as the incidence of the condition. Learners will be introduced of how to obtain a focused history, identify risk factors, perform a physical examination, including the Baden-Walker Hallway System of classification, and order investigations.
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