Director: Gary Rockwell, MD
Location: Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut Street, Springfield, MA
Goals
This rotation exposes the student to in-patient activities in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Baystate Medical Center, a 55-bed unit with approximately 800 newborn infants admitted per year. The student will gain experience managing a wide variety of clinical problems in a unit that provides intensive, intermediate, and continuing care.
Objectives
The student will…
- accompany a senior pediatric resident in all resident activities including high-risk deliveries, resuscitation and stabilization of the newborn infant, treating emergencies in the delivery room, and transporting infants to the NICU.
- be assigned a limited number of patients to care for under the co-supervision of a senior pediatric resident and a neonatologist.
- be able to identify and stabilize the high risk infant.
- understand the pathophysiology of the disease process.
- learn comprehensive evaluation of body functions.
- learn use of assisted ventilation
- learn common procedures such as starting an IV infusion, spinal taps, bladder taps and inserting umbilical arterial catheters.
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TUSM
Course Number
PED418-BA-W
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Duration
4 weeks
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Average
Hours per Week
40
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Night Call/Weekends
- On call all every 4th night.
- On shift one weekend
per month.
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Capacity
1 student per Block
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Alternate Dates
Available
Yes, at the discretion of the Director
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Transportation
Required
No
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On-Campus Housing
Available on a first-come, first-served basis
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Prerequisite: Successful completion of Medicine and Surgery Clerkships.
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If you would like to apply for this elective, please refer to Application Process.
