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Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers a broadly-based fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, providing both clinical and research training with the goal of preparing trainees for careers in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Our graduates are capable of applying their academic skills to scholarly investigation both in academic medicine and community practice.

Our fellowship objectives are to:

  • Train future leaders in neonatal medicine.
  • Train fellows to use an academically rigorous approach to decisions about patient care, implementing evidence-based medicine within a multidisciplinary model of care.
  • Improve neonatal care and advance the field of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine by training fellows to ask insightful clinical questions and use appropriate tools to answer those questions.
  • Train fellows to develop an understanding of quality, teamwork, and safety that can be applied to health care systems.

Why Choose UNC?

  • The UNC NICU offers an exceptionally wide clinical variety: surgical, surgical subspecialty, pediatric subspecialty and complex airway patients with a wide range of acuity.
  • Highly engaged physician and nurse practitioner faculty are very active in training fellows clinically and working one-on-one with fellows on scholarly activities.
  • We offer a wide array of opportunities for scholarly activity.
  • We offer highly individualized educational, QI and research experiences tailored to help each fellow reach their career goals.
  • About one-third of our fellow graduates have earned an MPH as part of fellowship training over the past 25 years. Over half of our current NPM faculty have advanced degrees.
  • Chapel Hill is a GREAT city and North Carolina is a GREAT state in which to live!

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