PEDS313A

VISITING: Open to visitors. TYPE OF CLERKSHIP: Selective 2. DESCRIPTION: Medical students in their third or fourth clinical year are offered the opportunity to enrich their pediatric training in the 40-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) located on the 2nd floor of LPCH. The NICU offers an intensive experience in the management of premature and sick term neonates admitted from the delivery room, community physicians' offices, and an active referral service that draws from throughout Northern and mid-coastal California. The rotation emphasizes delivery room attendance and newborn resuscitation skills, daily management of common newborn problems, and the special follow-up needs of NICU graduates. Exposure to advanced therapies including mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, nitric oxide therapy, and hypothermia occurs routinely. An active maternal-fetal medicine service, pediatric surgery, and various pediatric subspecialty services support the NICU. Students work under direct supervision of housestaff, nurse practitioners, fellows and faculty, and assume gradual responsibility for patient care as dictated by performance as the rotation progresses. This clerkship requires pre-approval for all students. Stanford students must obtain approval from Weichen Ling prior to registering for this clerkship. Please email requests to wvling@stanford.edu. Visiting students should submit a request for Departmental pre-approval, which will be routed to the clerkship staff. Please see the School of Medicine Visiting Student webpage for information on how to apply: http://med.stanford.edu/clerkships.html. PREREQUISITES: Peds 300A and Anesthesia 306A/P. PERIODS AVAILABLE: 1-12, full-time for 4 weeks, 1 student per period. NOTE: enrollment is coordinated with Anes 306P. CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR: Christine Johnson, M.D., clcjohns@stanford.edu. CLERKSHIP COORDINATOR: Asia Wesley, awesley@stanford.edu. REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS: Where: Intensive Care Nursery (Attending Physician or on-service Fellow); Time: 7:30 AM. CALL CODE: 4 - Call is every 4th night until 11pm, no overnight call. OTHER FACULTY: LPCH NICU faculty. LOCATION: LPCH.