Training and the Specialty

Candace Cooley trained at a public university, a medical college and two hospitals: a Bachelor of Science in Biology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, a Doctor of Medicine at Albany Medical College, and a residency that began with two years at Albany Medical Center Hospital, from 1994 to 1996, and was completed at Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, Florida, in 1998. This index gathers the entries on that path and on the specialty it leads to. Binghamton University’s history begins with Triple Cities College, opened in 1946 for veterans returning from World War II, which joined the State University of New York in 1950 as Harpur College and became the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1965.¹

Residency itself keeps changing. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that women became a majority of all residents and fellows for the first time in the 2024 to 2025 academic year and made up 88.8 percent of the residents training for obstetrics and gynecology.² After residency comes certification. The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology has offered voluntary certification to the specialty since 1927 and also certifies subspecialists in fields such as maternal fetal medicine and gynecologic oncology.³

The three entries are Binghamton University and Harpur College, Residency and Board Certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology and How Obstetrics and Gynecology Became One Specialty. Her own training is set out on the education page.