The objective of the Perinatal-Neonatal Fellowship Training Program is to provide an educational opportunity in which the trainee is afforded a comprehensive background in neonatal-perinatal medicine as well as in research through a thorough hands on experience in management of critically ill patients. We also seek to instill a working knowledge of basic research skill for future growth. Ultimately, we are interested in training pediatricians with leadership potential and a serious commitment to a career in academic neonatology.

Research seminars by First Year Trainees are protocol design and project planning oriented. Second Year Trainees are expected to present a "work-in-progress at their research seminars by showing raw laboratory data as well as information, statistics and interpretation on completed potions of their projects. In the Third Year of Training, research seminars are expected to show evidence of closure on a project with critical review of their work in the context of the field they are working in, to provide insights into new ideas or directions arising from their new information.

It is expected that each member of the division will have an active basic or clinical research program and publish in peer-review journals at least once every 2 years. Each trainee is assigned a preceptor who is one of the staff neonatologists. This preceptor oversees the clinical and research progress of the trainee. In addition, the trainee may choose as his/her research advisor an investigator in an area relevant to perinatal medicine from the broad life sciences base of the Westchester Medical Center-New York Medical College Campus or its graduate schools.

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