RESPONSIBILITIES AND JOB DESCRIPTION OF FELLOWS

Clinical duties: Inpatient

· To be responsible for supervision of management of NCC inpatients by the registrars.

· Responsible for supporting and supervising the registrar in the assessment and management of babies on the post natal wards and labour floor.

· To attend appropriate high-risk deliveries whenever required.

· To assist the registrars with performing procedures (eg. insertion of PICC lines).

· To perform duties of D2 registrar, including care for babies in SCN, attend labour floor calls and assist with discharge summaries when D2 registrar is unavailable.

· To provide continuity of patient care: liaising with parents and referring physicians about a baby's progress and discharge plans.

· To organise head ultrasound and eye review of all at risk infants.

· To complete the “NSW Birth Defects Register Form” for infants with a condition that requires notification.

· To complete the perinatal mortality forms in event of death.

Clinical duties: Outpatients

· To participate in RNSH NCC high risk Follow-up Program, together with a neonatologist and clinical psychologist. The aim is to become familiar with the long term outcome of graduates from the NCC.

· To conduct the Neonatal Monitoring Clinic (Clinic 9) on Friday morning.

Education

· To be involved in teaching of registrars, medical undergraduates, nursing staff and clinical observers. This will occur at a number of levels, including day to day teaching in the NCC, case presentations, lectures and tutorials.

· To participate in the postgraduate educational sessions including journal club, clinical presentations, fetal medicine meetings and perinatal morbidity-mortality meetings.

· To participate in the Neonatal Resuscitation Programme that is conducted 4 times a year through the RNSH.

· Teaching resuscitation to the medical students who rotate weekly through NCC.

Research

· To be involved in the design and execution of at least one research project of sufficient merit to be presented at a National Scientific Meeting and be published in a peer reviewed medical/scientific journal.

Administration

· Liaise with the radiology registrar every Monday morning with a list of the babies that need to be discussed at the weekly Radiology meeting and present case histories of babies at this meeting.

· To present neonatal cases at the Term Baby Perinatal meeting on Tuesdays.

· To present babies at the monthly Neonatal Mortality and Morbidity meeting on Wednesdays.

· To present the neonatal cases at the Thursday morning Obstetric and Gynaecology meeting. Once a month the Perinatal Mortality is presented.

· To orientate new registrars to the NCC.

· Fax a list of babies requiring eye checks for the week to the Ophthalmologist.

· To assist with preparation of the Neonatal Registrar roster if requested by the Department Head.