A medical abbreviation.

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I'm editing this medical text with my colleagues. We have to find an abbreviation for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Is it Ob-Gyn or Ob/Gyn or OBGYN.
And how do you pronounce it?

It's one I've never come across and my colleagues tell me they can't find it on the internet.
 
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The only time I've heard it said aloud, it was pronounced as individual initials, as in O-B-G-Y-N, but hopefully someone with a medical background could give you a definitive answer. For what it's worth, Wikipedia has OB/GYN.
 
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In the states it's pronounced OB-GYN (names of the letters) - there has to be a bit of a pause between the two. I can't recall seeing it officially written out, but I think the hyphen would be better than the slash because the two are together not necessarily an optional situation. Puma
 

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Apparently there's some leeway because I'm on the obgyn.net site and their doctors use Ob/Gyn while the ACOG site has it as ob-gyn (no CAPS).
 
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A Word With You said:
Apparently there's some leeway because I'm on the obgyn.net site and their doctors use Ob/Gyn while the ACOG site has it as ob-gyn (no CAPS).
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You're right--the ACOG only capitalizes OB-GYN in titles. My mistake!

So it looks like "ob-gyn" and "Ob/Gyn" are both accepted as correct by obstetricians and gynecologists in the US.
 
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