The student will be part of the team headed by an attending and will follow and manage one or two patients together with one of the residents on the team. Teaching rounds will be conducted 5 times a week, work rounds 7 days a week.
During the first 2 weeks of the rotation, the student will refresh and refine his/her physical examination skills. He/she will become familiar with the nutritional needs of neonates and infants and with how these needs can be met by feedings and parental alimentation. How to prevent and correct imbalances in body water and electrolytes will be stressed. Problems with anemia, hyperbilirubinemia, infection (congenital or acquired after birth), hypoglycemia and hypocalcemia and their management will be explained.
During the second two weeks of the rotation, the focus of training will change to infants with respiratory and cardiovascular failure. The student will become familiar with the different causes of respiratory failure, how to judge the severity of respiratory failure by interpreting arterial blood gases and acid base status, and how to support the infants with supplement O2 or mechanical ventilation. Furthermore, the students will be exposed to signs and symptoms of cardiovascular failure, impaired regulation of breathing, and the consequences of hypoxic ischemic brain injury.
Course Director Contact Information
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mmp161@med.miami.edu
jrm605@med.miami.edu
