Didactic presentations are incorporated into this course. This experience will afford the student an opportunity to learn the pathophysiology and basic approaches to the evaluation and management of certain diseases affecting neonates.
Communication skills with peers, attending physicians, and stressed families are of high priority.
This clinical experience will also help the student learn to organize thought and action in emergency medical situations and to promote proficiency in resuscitative and supportive skills such as endotracheal intubation, umbilical vessel catheterization, and tube thoracostomies. Night call will be every fourth night.