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Enrollment Eligibility Criteria

 

Eligibility criteria for enrollment as Institute for conduct of IAP Neonatology fellowship program

 

The institution which wishes to take up the Fellowship program should fulfill the following criteria:

 

The institution should have a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which provides tertiary level care to newborn babies. The NICU should fulfill the following criteria:

  • At least 20 separate cradles with radiant warmers or incubators
  • Central oxygen and suction supply
  • At least 2 functional ventilators that can provide CPAP and conventional ventilation methods such as SIMV / AC etc to neonates
  • Single and double surface phototherapy units
  • Pulse oximeters
  • NIBP monitors
  • Infusion pumps, syringe pumps, drip monitors
  • Standard equipment for procedures such as lumbar tap, intercostal drain insertion, peritoneal dialysis, exchange transfusion etc
  • 24- hr service of portable X-rays
  • 24-hr service for basic laboratory investigations
  • At least 50 admissions every month
  • Staff nurses and a sister-in-charge who are specially trained and experienced in caring for neonates
  • At least 3 resident doctors who have the minimum MBBS qualification, working in the unit
  • At least 2 fulltime staff members who have completed M.D. OR D.N.B in Pediatrics and have at least 10 years of post graduate practice as full timers or in private practice or 5 years post DM Neonatology (A teacher qualified in D.M. Neonatology would provide distinctive additional benefit, but this is not a must)

 

The institution should have an in-house obstetric department with a turnover of at least 100 deliveries a month OR

 

The institution should be a dedicated pediatric hospital of which the NICU is a part, and have a average turnover of at least 50 neonate admissions every month

 

The institution should also be providing the following services to neonates within its premises:

  • Training mothers to breastfeed especially those babies who are the NICU graduates
  • Kangaroo Mother Care
  • Follow up outpatient services to these neonates

 

The institution should also be providing the following services to neonates either within its premises or have a link-up with another institute for the following services:

  • Ophthalmologic evaluation of neonates that require it
  • Auditory evaluation of neonates that require it
  • Physiotherapy evaluation of neonates that require it
  • Surgical treatment of emergency surgical situations

 

All teachers at the Institute should be Life members of IAP and IAP Neonatology chapter