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About Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (NPM) subspecialists provide comprehensive medical care for the newborn infant, particularly the ill or premature infant, and serve as consultants to pediatricians caring for newborns and to obstetricians caring for women with high-risk pregnancies. Training programs in NPM provide the experience and education needed to develop special competence in the management of critically ill neonates with medical and surgical problems. A neonatologist possess in depth knowledge of fetal and neonatal physiology and the clinical skills to diagnose and manage problems seen in the prenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods, including long-term neurodevelopmental follow up.
Training consists of three year fellowship in an ACGME-accredited NPM Fellowship Training Program following successful completion of a pediatric or medicine/pediatric residency. During training, NPM fellows acquire clinical competence and develop necessary skills for life-long learning, teaching and scholarship. Satisfactory competion of fellowship includes the conduct and completion of a scholarly work product and results in board eligibility from the American Board of Pediatrics.
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Welcome letter from ONTPD Council
Dear Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow Applicant:
Welcome to the Applicant's page on the ONTPD Web site.
This site was created to serve as a home for important information and exchange of ideas among NPM fellows, program directors and others interested in neonatology training. We hope this site will prove useful to you as a NPM trainee and serve as a forum for discussion, problem solving and sharing of ideas about fellowship training and careers after fellowship. We also hope this site will stimulate and provide an infrastructure for the organization of neonatology fellows and the election of a representative to serve as a liaison member to the Section on Perinatal Pediatrics, analogous to the Resident Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Please note that we are still in the early phases of development and changes are frequently being made to this web site. We urge you to visit the web site often and welcome your suggestions for improving this web site as well as your input into ways that the ONTPD can enhance the value and experience of neonatology fellowship training.
Joe Neu, MD, ONTPD Chair on behalf of the ONTPD Council |
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