S2 PEDS 313A. Neonatal Intensive Care Subinternship (LPCH)
Department
Pediatrics
Courses Clerkships
Description
Medical students in their third and fourth clinical year are offered the opportunity to enrich their training in the 40 bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit located on the second floor of LPCH. This state-of-the-art unit offers an intensive experience in the management of premature and ill term neonates. The patient population is diverse, including 23 week estimated gestational age 500 gram premature newborns; post-dates neonates with pulmonary hypertension; infants with varied cardiac, gastrointestinal, urologic and central nervous system surgical lesions; and newborns with a myriad of chromosomal and metabolic abnormalities. Exposure to therapies such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, nitric oxide, high frequency ventilation, surfactant and human recombinant erythropoietin occurs on a daily basis. The NICU is supported by an active Maternal-Fetal Medicine Service, involved pediatric radiologists and full laboratory services. It is also the site for both applied basic science and clinical research protocols carried out by members of the divisions of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine and Maternal-Fetal Medicine. The focus of the medical student experience is to train future physicians to anticipate and recognize the newborn in distress, perform appropriate resuscitation and ongoing assessment and stabilization of such neonates, and deliver optimum continued care and follow-up. Students work under direct supervision of house staff, fellows and faculty, and assume graded responsibility for patient care as dictated by performance as the subinternship proceeds.
Prerequisites
Anesthesia 306A and consent of instructor.
Periods Available
1-12, full-time for four weeks. 1-2 students per period.
Reporting Instructions:
Where: Intensive Care Nursery (Attending Physician); Time: 8:30 am.
Units 6 Drop
Code T Call
Code 4
Director:
Louis P. Halamek, M.D. (650-723-5711), 750 Welch Rd, Ste #315.
Other Faculty
R. Ariagno, W. Benitz, V. Bhutani, V. Chock, R. Cohen, L. Halamek, S. Hintz, P. Hwang, A. Madan, A. Penn, W. Rhine, D. Stevenson, K. Van Meurs.
Coordinator
Ana Laborde (650-723-5711).
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"S1"=Selective Clerkship Category I (Basics in Clinical Care)
"S2"=Selective Clerkship Category II (Subinternship)
