Fellows will spend the first two weeks of July in orientation, which will introduce you to tkey key clinical and research aspects of our program. Orientation will start at the department level and with our GME office before starting with our program-specific orientation. This time will include learning procedural skills and performing a simulation on the Golden Hour.
After the first two weeks of orientation, each first-year fellow will shadow a senior fellow for call night before they do one on their own.
New fellows will shadow senior fellows in the unit for up to a week to learn about the flow before starting in the NICU.
All fellows will rotate into our NICU and our perinatal and postnatal clinics.
All clinical activities take place in the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital.
Acuity: Highest to lowest
Neonatal Critical Care Unit (NCCU) |
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Nurse Practitioner |
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Teaching & Transport |
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Level 6 |
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High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Clinic |
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Perinatal Care Clinic (PCC) |
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Non-clinical time is devoted to research and quality improvement projects. Each fellow participates in a research project that will result in a scholarly work product by the end of their training.