Key features
Conferences
Our weekly and annual conference topics. View descriptions and browse the full schedule.
POCUS
Our in-house, multidisciplinary neonatal point of care ultrasound program.
ECMO
SLCH’s robust, multidisciplinary extracorporeal membrane oxygenation service
Transport
Fellows are key members of the SLCH transport team
Fellows as educators
Fellows have multiple opportunities to develop and hone their skills as educators through the following:
| Daily | Fellows lead morning didactic sessions for pediatric residents in the NICU while on clinical service. (Monday through Thursday) Fellows provide bedside teaching on daily rounds while on clinical service as well as formal and informal teaching of residents, medical students, nurse practitioner students and bedside nurses while on-call. |
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| Weekly | Each fellow presents a clinical case conference once per year during our Newborn Medicine weekly division conference. This presentation encourages fellows to reflect on a clinical case in their practice, read relevant literature and present the case succinctly to the fellows and faculty. Fellows work with faculty clinical mentors and the program directors to develop their presentations. Senior fellows present an interactive board review topic once per year. Each fellow receives a copy of a neonatology board review book upon starting fellowship. Fellows have additional opportunities to present clinical cases and relevant literature at twice monthly Complex Case conference and monthly ECMO conference. |
| Monthly | Fellows can become NRP instructors and teach NRP to pediatric residents at the monthly NRP review. Fellows present cases in our monthly Morbidity Mortality and Improvement Conference in conjunction with faculty mentors as well as colleagues in the Department of Pathology. Fellows take part in monthly Labor and Delivery Quality Improvement meetings, discussing delivery room courses and working to improve system-based issues. |
| Yearly | The Washington University Teaching Physician Pathways is a School of Medicine wide opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and experience needed to excel as a clinician-educator. The program includes classroom and clinical teaching opportunities and mentorship. Fellows apply in the second year of fellowship and complete coursework during the third year of fellowship. |
Advanced simulation training
Advanced simulation training sessions augment the fellows’ educational experience by providing hands-on, high-fidelity simulation experiences in the management of complex neonatal problems.
The following topics are covered in the Advanced Simulation Curriculum and are based on the
American Board of Pediatrics Neonatal–Perinatal Content Outline. The sessions encourage reflective thinking, good team communication and deliberate practice of technical skills.
Educational goals for fellow simulation training including the following:
Airway
- Know the proper approach to airway management in the delivery room.
- Know the potential complications of airway management in the delivery room
and know their management. - Know the current recommendations regarding suctioning meconium from the
airway following delivery.
Ventilation and oxygenation
- Know the indications for assisted ventilation, including continuous positive
airway pressure, immediately after birth and how to assess its effectiveness. - Understand how to use self-inflating and flow-inflating bags or T-piece
resuscitators to provide assisted ventilation immediately after birth. - Know indications for and proper administration of supplemental oxygen
immediately after birth.
Circulatory support
- Know the indications for, techniques, and potential complications of chest
compression immediately after birth. - Know the indications for and management of intravascular fluid volume
replacement immediately after birth.
Pharmacologic management
- Know the indications, contraindications, and methods of administration of drugs used for neonatal resuscitation.
- Know the clinical features of an infant with airway obstruction.
- Plan appropriate diagnostic evaluation and management for an infant with airway obstruction.
- Know the clinical strategies and therapies used to decrease the risk and severity of RDS.
- Know the management of RDS, including surfactant replacement.
- Recognize the clinical features and differential diagnosis of persistent pulmonary hypertension.
- Know the management of persistent pulmonary hypertension including assisted ventilation, pharmacologic approaches and ECMO.
Recognize the clinical, laboratory and imaging features of air leaks.
Cyanotic heart defects
- Know the evaluation and medical and/or surgical management and associated potential complications or adverse effects of such management for a cyanotic neonate.
- Recognize the clinical features and possible associated defects of a cyanotic neonate.
Know appropriate management of common arrhythmias in the fetus and newborn
infant and understand the potential complications or adverse effects of approaches and drugs used.
Recognize features and management of hemorrhagic, distributive, cardiogenic, obstructive and neurogenic shock
Know how specific fetal anomolies such as airway abnormalities, abdominal wall defects, trachea-esophageal fistula, neuroal tube defects or severe hydrocephalus alter delivery room management.
Educational resources
A listing of additional resources available to pediatric trainees (residents and fellows).