You’ll do your rotations at all 3 hospital facilities. Although the campuses are located within 45 minutes of each other, you’ll work at only one of these clinical sites on any given day:

• Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, located in Wilmington, DE, is one of the country’s top pediatric hospitals and is home to a 14-bed surgical NICU and 14-bed cardiac intensive care unit. During rotations here, you’ll help care for surgical neonates, including those requiring cardiothoracic surgery. The hospital also offers Nemours Partners for Perinatal Management, a broad multidisciplinary team of specialists who screen for and treat a wide range of congenital problems.
• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, located in Philadelphia and affiliated with Jefferson Medical College, has a large delivery unit, a 40-bed NICU, and a maternal fetal medicine department that evaluates high-risk pregnancies. It serves as an obstetrics referral center and is a regional Level III tertiary referral site for both extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and head cooling. Its urban setting exposes you to a highly diverse patient population.
• Christiana Hospital, located in Newark, DE, is the only general tertiary care facility in the state and is an obstetrics referral center. With more than 7,000 annual deliveries, the hospital has a maternal fetal medicine department that evaluates high-risk pregnancies and a Level III NICU with an average daily census of 49. For more than a quarter century, the hospital’s advanced neonatal transport team has served as a mobile NICU for the community it serves. The hospital offers head and total body hypothermia to treat hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Its neonatal palliative care team includes two clinicians who are board certified in hospice and palliative care medicine and serve as faculty members in our program.

With fellows from other programs, you’ll participate in a variety of didactic sessions, including basic research training and statistics, as well as pediatric grand rounds.

Other activities include:

• daily teaching rounds during clinical rotations
• orientation lectures on ventilator management and ECMO
• neonatal-perinatal, laboratory, and radiology rounds
• fellow physiologic lecture series (weekly lectures that cover the entire content of the subspecialty certifying examination)
• classic and neonatal journal clubs
• fellow board review
• conferences and seminars on fellow research, quality
  improvement, professionalism/communication, morbidity and mortality, and fetal therapy

You may also pursue a Masters degree through Thomas Jefferson University, concurrently or following your fellowship training. They offer programs in:

• human clinical investigation (NIH-sponsored)
• public health
• healthcare quality and safety

These fulfill the scholarly activity requirement of the American Board of Pediatrics.