Clinical Training Overview

Clinical Opportunities

All clinical responsibilities and educational activities are within Oklahoma Children's Hospital
The NICU at Oklahoma Children's Hospital is the area's only 104-bed level IV NICU. We offer our patients therapeutic hypothermia, high-frequency ventilation, NAVA and extracorporeal life support (ECLS) and other advanced treatment modalities. Our clinical services are supported by all pediatric and surgical subspecialties.

Acute Care Teams

• Fellows lead a team of residents and medical students (West) or neonatal nurse practitioners (East) under the supervision of an attending physician
• Daily rounding with pharmacists, nutritionists, and other auxiliary medical services
• Rotation through the teams for 36 weeks during fellowship
• Collaborate with pediatric and surgical subspecialists

Cardiac Care

• Exposure to and management of perioperative and post-surgical critically-ill congenital heart disease patients, including rotation through the cardiovascular ICU and operating room during the second year of fellowship
• Daily multidisciplinary rounds with cardiologists, cardiac intensivists, cardiovascular surgeons, and cardiac anesthesiologists as part of a dedicated NICU cardiac team
• 100 infants per year with a primary cardiac diagnosis
• Rotation through the team 4 weeks per year

Transport, Labor & Delivery, and Consultation Team

• Attends all high-risk deliveries
• Consults on families of high-risk infants prior to delivery
• Organizes neonatal transport calls, including management and triage of high-risk infants and deployment of the neonatal transport team to the entire state of Oklahoma and surrounding areas
• Collaborates with OBGYN and maternal-fetal medicine

Air Kids One

Neonatal Fellows will be available for:

• 24 hour case consultations
• Case Management
• Deployment of transport team
• Guidance of treatment in the field

Outpatient Clinics

• Bridging the care of medically complex NICU graduates in our two outpatient clinics: short-term NICU follow-up (High-Risk Clinic) and neurodevelopmental follow-up (PremieR Clinic)
  • High-Risk Clinic includes management of home oxygen, assessment of need for early intervention services, nutritional guidance, and caregiver support
  • PremieR Clinic encompasses a multidisciplinary approach with neonatology, behavioral and developmental pediatrics, occupational / physical therapy, neurology, NICU dietitians, and social workers