In addition, the fellowship will provide opportunities for individualized academic investigations, which are not only required for subspecialty certification, but will foster a lifelong spirit of inquiry.
Lecture + educational conferences
During each academic year, there are regularly scheduled lectures on the fundamentals of perinatal medicine. Regularly scheduled lectures/conferences include:
- Biweekly conferences reviewing topics on prenatal diagnosis, genetics, teratology, infectious disease and postnatal management of fetal complications
- Weekly clinical conferences covering the entire field of obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine (including acute intrapartum/antepartum/postpartum complications, medical complications of pregnancy and fetal and maternal physiology).
- Monthly multidisciplinary conference of antenatal management and post-hoc review of prenatally-diagnosed anomalies, allowing for collaboration between perinatologists, genetic counselors, neonatologists, pediatric subspecialists and radiologists.
- Monthly multidisciplinary conferences covering basic science research in obstetrics, gynecology and pediatrics
- Weekly departmental Grand Rounds
- Monthly departmental Morbidity & Mortality
- Quarterly divisional Journal Club
- Quarterly perinatology-neonatology joint conferences covering clinical scenarios with challenging fetal and neonatal outcomes
- Semiannual placental pathology conferences
We encourage fellow attendance and participation at regional and national conferences. The department will pay the expenses for educational conferences where a fellow presents. In addition, each fellow is given an annual CME stipend for travel to conferences, textbooks and other educational expenses.