Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship
University of Hawai‘iNeonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship
About
Our fellowship program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine is a unique one: it is a partnership between Kapi’olani Medical Center (KMCWC), Tripler Army Medicine Center (TAMC) and Hawai’i Residency Programs, Inc (HRP) with sponsorship by University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine (UH JABSOM). This is the only military-civilian partnership within the military graduate medical education system. Fellows consist of both active-duty military and civilian trainees. This ACGME accredited program is approved to train up to six fellows.
Our Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship program will train pediatricians (military and civilian) to become neonatologists that successfully balance compassionate family-centered clinical practice with the ever-changing science of neonatology for our most vulnerable patient population.
Training sites
KMCWC NICU: A Level IV NICU, it is the only public neonatal intensive care unit. Approximately 1,000 preterm or sick infants are cared for each year. There are 70 private rooms with an average daily census of 73 neonates. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation if provided in the NICU, and more newborns with congenital heart disease are being cared for at KMCWC with the addition of our pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon to our staff and the recently opened pediatric cardiac Cath lab.
TAMC NICU: A Level III NICU, it serves the neonates of active duty and dependent families in the State of Hawai’i, as well as neonates from the Pacific region (including Guam, South Korea, and Okinawa Japan). Approximately 400 neonates are cared for each year. There are 22 private rooms with an average daily census of 10 neonates.
Curriculum
The fellowship program is three years, split into 13 4-week blocks each year. The clinical and research blocks are broken down as followed:
- 14 four-week clinical blocks: seven blocks at KMCWC NICU and seven blocks at TAMC NICU, both located in Honolulu HI, 7.1 miles apart.
- 21 four-week research blocks: it is expected fellows will complete both a research and quality improvement project. Research opportunities exist at UH JABSOM, KMCWC and TAMC, and quality improvement projects exist both at KMCWC and TAMC.
- 2-week block in Maternal-Fetal-Medicine at KMCWC, TAMC and Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (a private practice office)
- 2-week block in pediatric cardiology at KMCWC, who has the only pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory (opened in 2023) and pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon in the state and Pacific region.
- Except during PTO/Leave, fellows take 4 calls per block: calls are split equally between KMCWC and TAMC.
Conferences
- Neonatal Fellowship Weekly Conference Thursdays from 1-3pm
- Weekly MFM/Neonatology Conference: Fridays from 2:30-3:30pm
- Bimonthly Prenatal Pediatric Conference
- Join QI and Safety Virtual Conference with other NPM fellowship programs on the west coast.
Contact
Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program
Emmanuel R.E. Kling, M.D.
Program Director
ere@hawaii.edu
Dawn Dural
Program Administrator
ddural@hawairesidency.org
Phone: (808) 369-1200
Fax: (808) 369-1212