The experience in the newborn service includes managing the normal infant, handling problems in the delivery room and learning the normal transitional physiology. Because the emphasis of this residency is on primary care, the resident learns to manage problems likely to be encountered in community hospitals while being exposed to the more complex neonatal cases. In this 12-bed tertiary unit supervised by 4 Pediatric Intensivists, the resident learns about a full spectrum of critical childhood injuries and illnesses. There is an active pediatric cardiac program with two pediatric cardiovascular surgeons. Residents learn at the bedside how to recognize a sick child and use general resuscitative measures, manual skills and disease specific strategies.
Emphasis is placed on understanding the underlying pathophysiology of the child.