Fellowship Program reaccredited

Another five years of continued accreditation was granted to the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program at Baylor College of Medicine from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Following a rigorous review process, maximum allowable accreditation was granted ensuring certification of the fellowship program until 2008. “To maintain this level of certification requires the support and contribution of each and every faculty, fellow, and staff member and attests to the quality of our program,” said Dr. Leonard E. Weisman, the program director and Head of the Section of Neonatology at Baylor.

In 1961, Dr. Arnold J. (Jack) Rudolph began the fellowship program, and it was one of the first programs to be accredited by the ACGME in 1984. Ours is one of 98 Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine programs in the U.S. and has as many as 15 full-time fellows in training at any one time. The 150 fellows who have graduated the program account for over four percent of the neonatologists in the nation. During the last five years, fellows in training have published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, presented their research at hundreds of national and regional scientific meetings, and received numerous awards and national recognition including Young Investigator Awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Pediatric Research, Oxygen Society, and others.

For information about the Baylor Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program, visit our Web site or see the Fellowship information on the Back Page of this newsletter.