Education, Organisation & Evaluation

Hello, I a UK neonatal trainee about to finish my neonatal training in next few months (Certificat of Specialist Training in Neonatology) and will be qualified to work as a consultant neonatologist here. For professional and personal reasons, I have decided to move to North America. For this I have done the USMLE exams with good scores (Step 1 229 Step 2 241 and CS pass) and gained ECFMG certifications. I am a biritish citizen, born in and graduated from India. I have 2 questions: Is this true that USA fellowship programs are no longer accepting International Medical Graduates for direct entry to fellowships? If I did a neonatal fellowship in Canada, and pass…

our fourth neonatology conference, it will be held under the title of : "Neonatal care, every day practice" , it will at the 24 & 25 th of October 2013, at Al fayrouz resort on the Mediterranean sea, Port said, Egypt. For registration send your personal information (name, email, address, mobile,workplace) to this email: portsaidnicus@gmail.com Conference website: portsaidneogrp@gmail.com http://portsaidneogrp.com/?page_id=371

Hello everyone, I am a neonatologist in San Antonio, Tx. Just curious if anyone has experience in the area of resource utilization in their quality improvement initiatives. If so, I would appreciate any guidance. Our practice is wanting to start monitoring and cutting back on overuse of resources. Also, does anyone have any experience with the move to pay-for-performance especially how it relates to medicaid and insurance companies. Hope everyone is well, thanks, Sam Burns

From our facebook page, Spalchen Sponbo asks: [h=5]What are the indicators to check the quality of of neonatal care in a NICU ?[/h]

Guys any suggestion how to apply for perinatal neonatal fellowship in canada. Can any one advice how to approach the program directors and how to start the process. what programs I should look for. I went to med school in pakistan and am pediatric SPR in Ireland.

Hi, I am working as a registrar in level 3 NICU for last 3 years. I did MD in Pediatrics from India. I want to do fellowship in Neonatology. Can anybody guide me to get fellowship in USA or Canada?

The first 99nicu Poll in 2013 is about your use of social media, and which web platforms you use for professional communication with other neonatal staff. When we started 99nicu in 2006, I did not sense the dramatic development of interactive web sites during the years to come. In a way, we were pioneers without knowing about it. But the basic idea behind 99nicu contained everything in the definition of "Social media", according to Wikipedia. We aimed to create a platform for professional communication between neonatal staff, with the aim to promote health among the thousands and thousands of term and preterm infants populating NICUs around the world. I'd w…

Our neonatology workshop in Dubai, travel from Cairo will be at Thursday 31 January, workshop will be from 1 – 3 February, return to Cairo will be at the 4th of February, 9 CME hours will be provided, certificates will be accredited by the Abu Dhabi health authority (HAAD), lectures will be provided by unique Gulf area staff, including dr Alaa El Demerdash, head of neonatal unit, Latifa hospital, Dubai, dr Hesham tawakol, consultant neonatologist at El Corniche hospital, Abu Dhabi & dr Junaid Khan, chief of staff, Al Rahba hospital, Abu Dhabi, all this while enjoying the beauty of Dubai during shopping festival & wonderful weather. Neonatologists from the Gulf …

Being prepared for disasters is of paramount importance. I am sure all NICUs have some sort of drills / evacuation (horizontal and vertical), etc on a regular basis. I want to know how you are preparing your units/staff for an emergency. What equipments do have for evacuation? What plans have you made? What contingency plans have you made? Have you done a full evacuation drill? In case of a real emergency will you be able to evacuate all your patients in a timely manner? Do you use evacuation vests( Vests with pockets for keeping babies !) ? Have you faced a real emergency in your NICU? How was your experience?

I seek advice about how to work as a neonatologist in Canada. Does anyone, trained outside US/Canada, have experience from working there? Or, can anyone from Canada give advice? What formalities need to be met? I and my family have some very vague plans about staying for a year in Vancouver in the future (2013?). If dreams come true, I am sure it would be great