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Part 6: Essentials of Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine fellowship: program administration

Journal of Perinatology volume 42, pages 976–981 (2022)Cite this article

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A successful Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine fellowship (NPM-F) program requires presence and insight of national and institutional supervisory organizations as well as effective program-specific leaders: program director (PD), associate program director (APD), program coordinator (PC), and core faculty. It is becoming more common for PDs and APDs to have advanced training in medical education and conduct medical education research. While NPM-F program leaders benefit from a strong national NPM educator community, they face challenges of increased regulatory burden and unclear national guidelines with variable local interpretation for protected time. National and local organizations can support program leaders and promote their academic success while reducing burnout and turnover by providing leadership training, academic mentoring, and adequate protected time for research and program-specific tasks.

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  1. These authors contributed equally: Maria Gillam-Krakauer, Jotishna Sharma.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Mildred T Stahlman Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

    Maria Gillam-Krakauer

  2. Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA

    Jotishna Sharma

  3. Ann and Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

    Patrick Myers

  4. Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

    Elizabeth M. Bonachea

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Heather M. French & Mackenzie Frost

  6. Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Kristina M. Reber & Melissa Carbajal

  7. Department of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Erin Cicalese, Robert Angert & Jennifer A. Wambach

  8. Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburg, PA, USA

    Karena Lawrence

  9. Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Melissa Bauserman

  10. Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA

    Misty Good

  11. Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Brittany Schwarz

  12. Department of Pediatrics, UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Allison Payne

  13. Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA

    Jennifer Trzaski

  14. Division of Neonatology, Connecticut Children’s, Hartford, CT, USA

    Jennifer Trzaski

  15. Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Lindsay Johnston

  16. Departments of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA

    Patricia Chess & Rita Dadiz

  17. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA

    Patricia Chess

  18. Division of Neonatology and Developmental Biology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Oakland, CA, USA

    Josephine Enciso

  19. Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Alison Falck

  20. Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

    Megan Gray & Taylor Sawyer

  21. Division of Neonatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Susan Izatt

  22. Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Sara Kane

  23. Department of Pediatrics, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA

    Autumn Kiefer & M. Cody Smith

  24. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Kristen T. Leeman

  25. Department of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian Health School of Medicine, Hackensack, NJ, USA

    Sabrina K. Malik

  26. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Jayasree Nair

  27. Department of Pediatrics, Robert Larner, MD College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

    Deirdre O’Reilly

  28. Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Kate Stanley

  29. Division of Neonatology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Margarita Vasquez

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Consortia

ONTPD Fellowship Directors Writing Group

  • Heather M. French
  • , Kristina M. Reber
  • , Erin Cicalese
  • , Karena Lawrence
  • , Melissa Bauserman
  • , Misty Good
  • , Brittany Schwarz
  • , Allison Payne
  • , Melissa Carbajal
  • , Robert Angert
  • , Jennifer Trzaski
  • , Lindsay Johnston
  • , Patricia Chess
  • , Rita Dadiz
  • , Josephine Enciso
  • , Alison Falck
  • , Mackenzie Frost
  • , Megan Gray
  • , Susan Izatt
  • , Sara Kane
  • , Autumn Kiefer
  • , Kristen T. Leeman
  • , Sabrina K. Malik
  • , Jayasree Nair
  • , Deirdre O’Reilly
  • , Taylor Sawyer
  • , M. Cody Smith
  • , Kate Stanley
  • , Margarita Vasquez
  • , Jennifer A. Wambach
  •  & C. Lydia Wraight

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MGK and JS wrote the primary draft; MGK, JS, PM, and EB performed revisions; all authors reviewed the final manuscript.

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Correspondence to Maria Gillam-Krakauer.

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Consortia authors declare the following competing interests: MG has received sponsored research agreement funding from Astarte Medical Partners and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. PC has received funding from Elsevier publishing and MedStudy. None of these sources had any role in this manuscript. All Authors are involved in Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine fellowship program leadership.

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Gillam-Krakauer, M., Sharma, J., Myers, P. et al. Part 6: Essentials of Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine fellowship: program administration. J Perinatol 42, 976–981 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-022-01314-8

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