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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Clinical Training

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The University of Nebraska Medicine Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship program provides a wide breadth of neonatal patients. Fellows split their time evenly between the Nebraska Medicine and Children’s Nebraska NICUs. Between the two units, fellows learn from the variety of patients with a vast array of pathophysiology.

Children’s Nebraska:

  • NICU
  • FCC
  • Cardiac Care Unit
  • TIPS/Neonatal Follow-up

Fellows spend at least one month their second year in the Children’s Nebraska Cardiac Care Unit. During their time, fellows can follow patients recovering from cardiac surgery and those on ECMO. The Cardiac Care Unit has 32 beds, providing expert cardiac care and treatment of a wide range of heart conditions.

As a fellow, you will divide your clinical rotations between Nebraska Medicine and Children’s Nebraska. You will spend a total of 12 months in the NICU with additional time in the Children’s Cardiac Unit with ECMO exposure and post-cardiac surgical experience during the second year. In your third year, you will attend NICU Follow-up Clinic throughout the year. The rest of your fellowship will be time to dedicate to your scholarly activity.

Children's Nebraska

The NICU at Children’s Nebraska is a 52-bed combined medical-surgical unit. With approximately 500 admissions a year and an average daily census of 40 patients, all patients are transferred to the Children’s Nebraska NICU from hospital across Nebraska and the surrounding region. Children’s Nebraska NICU serves patients with complications related to prematurity, complex congenital cardiac disease, genetics conditions, intestinal anomalies, respiratory failure and brain injury.

The Fetal Care Center provides support and resources for expectant parents whose babies are at high risk for serious birth defects or health conditions that may require advanced care immediately after birth. Our Neuro NICU provides specialized, comprehensive care for newborns with brain injuries, stroke, seizures and other neurological conditions. Our expert team collaborates with our many pediatric specialists and surgeons to provide the best care to our patients. Our fellows quickly become familiar with evidence-based medicine treatments for the sickest of infants.

Nebraska Medicine

The Nebraska Medicine NICU is equipped with 38 beds and admits approximately 500 infants each year and has an average daily census of 22 patients. The NICU is contiguous to the delivery suites as well as a perinatal intensive care unit for high-risk obstetrical patients. Nebraska Medicine has an active delivery service in which Neonatology and Perinatology work closely together. Nebraska Medicine is an active participant in the Nebraska Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative (NPQIC).  NPQIC seeks to improve the delivery of and access to evidence-based health care for all Nebraska mothers and newborns.  Providers and Nurses at Nebraska Medicine adopt new research proven practices to ensure the highest quality care for mothers and babies and share those practices with other hospitals and providers in Nebraska through NPQIC.