Level II Special Care Nursery Fellowship

Are you a pediatrician or soon-to-be graduating pediatric resident interested in a career providing care to moderately preterm or ill infants born in hospitals with Level II Special Care Nurseries (SCN)? If so, Cincinnati Children’s Level II Fellowship Program may be for you! 

Many pediatricians complete their pediatric residency program with as little as two months of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) experience. With limited NICU experience during their pediatric residency, many graduates are not prepared to independently practice in a Level II SCN upon graduation and often require further training. 

We recognized this training gap and in response created our 9 to 18 month Level II Special Care Nursery Fellowship Program. 

This non-ACGME accredited fellowship program is administered through the GME office at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

The goal of the program is to ensure that all fellows graduate with the education, skills, and experience needed to independently practice in a Level II SCN. This includes both the management of a wide breadth of neonatal diseases and physiology present in moderately preterm and term infants after birth as well as the initial resuscitation and stabilization of an extremely preterm or critically ill infant prior to transport to a higher level of care.