Newborn Nursery

Catalog description

The Well Baby Nursery Elective Rotation is designed to give medical students a comprehensive hands-on educational experience in newborn medicine. Students will attend daily rounds with the nursery attending, learn to conduct thorough newborn physical exams, identify normal variations of physical findings, and discern when subspecialist consultation or escalation to higher level of care (i.e., NICU) may be needed. Core newborn topics - physiological jaundice, care of late preterm infant, management of newborn hypoglycemia, amongst others - will be covered in full. The rotation also includes attendance at both vaginal and cesarean deliveries with pediatric residents and other staff.