Fellows devote 15 months of their fellowship learning the clinical skills required of a MFM sub-specialist. Their training is guided by the MFM faculty. This experience provides our fellows an opportunity to become technically skilled, superbly trained sub-specialists and consultants. This clinical exposure is balanced by an intellectual atmosphere consisting of a formal MFM didactic series, together with regular perinatal, genetics and pathology conferences, as well as coursework opportunities.

The research resources available to the fellow are similarly impressive, and fellows devote 21 of their 36 months with us to developing an expertise in clinical and/or basic investigation. The research infrastructure at Women & Infants is supported by three Federal Grants, a COBRE award in Reproductive Biology, WRHR (Women's Reproductive Health Research) and a BIRWCH in Women's Health. All three grants provide support for development of junior faculty as well as for basic infrastructure. Our affiliation with Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital provides additional research support and possibilities for interdisciplinary research. The MFM division participates in the Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network and the Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network (SCRN) sponsored by the NICHD. The research interests of our faculty include exercise physiology, diabetic fetopathy, epidemiology and treatment of GDM, health management, fetal/neonatal endocrinology, reproductive immunology, IUGR, hemodynamics of hypertension and cervical physiology. Research interests outside the expertise of the Division are also fostered, with the collaborative efforts of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics and Pathology producing an outstanding opportunity.


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This article is reposted with thanks to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Brown Medical School and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.

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