Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program

General Information:

Cook County Health’s Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Training Program started in 1968 and is one of the oldest in the country.  We are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).  The goal of the program is to train fellows to become competent, well-grounded neonatologists in clinical care and research.

The Program is committed in caring for the health needs of underserved populations of Cook County.  We provide specialized care to babies with a wide spectrum of diseases in the NICU and our families come from different racial, ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds.  We are also a diverse team, which includes neonatologists, fellows, residents, neonatal nurses, nurse practitioner, physician assistants, hospitalist, and other ancillary staff members.  Our Institution offers candidates with H1B and J1 visa sponsorships.

Our comprehensive curriculum provides the fellows with a strong clinical foundation.  The fellows participate in a wide variety of clinical, basic science and epidemiology research.  The clinical service, including neonatal transports, teaching rounds and weekly conferences, is joined with weekly multidisciplinary high-risk clinics for a unique opportunity to learn and provide long-term follow-up care to NICU graduates at risk for neurodevelopmental disability.  The curriculum is designed to ensure protected time for scholarly activities.

Our comprehensive training program strives to:

• Ensure an appropriate environment for the well-being and care of the patients
• Provide NPM trainees adequate training in the diagnosis, critical analysis of clinical problems, and management of neonates and young infants
• Provide NPM trainees with opportunities for the progressive acquisition of skills in investigative efforts
• Prepare NPM trainees to create and sustain a therapeutic relationship with patients
• Help trainees to become:
  • A teacher and supervisor
  • Involved with scholarly activities
  • Develop a commitment to lifelong learning and self-instruction on the part of the NPM trainees
  • Enable NPM trainees to develop expertise as consultants in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • Provide progressive clinical, technical, and consultative experiences that will enable the NPM trainees to work effectively as members or leaders of patient care teams or other groups in which they participate as researcher, educator, health advocate, or manager.