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
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
