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Newborn Medicine
PD 512M.1

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Description

During this course, students will rotate in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at BIDMC. The course will introduce students to the physiologic adaptations involved in the transition from the fetus to newborn. Students will be exposed to a broad range of diagnoses including prematurity, perinatal depression, infection, and congenital anomalies. Students will attend high risk deliveries, participate in antepartum consultations, work with a multi-disciplinary care team, and care for infants and their families in the fifty-five bed intensive and intermediate care neonatal unit under the direction of an attending neonatologist and neonatology fellow.

School Harvard Medical School
Credits 4
Cross Reg

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Course Component Advanced Elective
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Pediatrics
Grading Basis HMS Clinical Grading
Course Requirements Open only to HMS MD students
Curriculum Phase Post-PCE
Visiting Clerks Open to Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Visiting St
Open to Domestic Visiting Students
Course Type Advanced Clinical Electives