Neonatology

Do you have any idea where to read about neonatology? If you have an interest in neonatology, you may like to glance at https://daly.medicine.iu.edu/med/section/default.asp?format=GROUP&id=GROUP-050224-092534-PEM&title=Neonatology±Educational± Site. This site contains different sections that contain a range of educational and clinical topics for students and clinicians.

The homepage directs you to a teaching programme, a neonatology reference manual, and a list of neonatology textbooks. For further interest, other links of educational websites are described section by section.

The organisation of the topics will help you in your study. You are able to access radiographs, pathology slides, graphs, and photographs that are related to topics in your curriculum without the need to wait a long time for downloading. When you feel proficient with the theory, you can have a go at questioning yourself through the case study and self assessment section.

Would you like to learn more about the history of neonatology and useful neonatology tools? Try www.neonatology.org, which is a massive informative site. The homepage may not be that interesting, but the site will enlighten you with a detailed history of neonatology, many clinical resources, as well as directing you to many other interesting sites. Also, it allows you to work with calculators used in the assessment of neonates free of charge.

An excellent site to learn about neonatology is www.rcpch.ac.uk, which is the official site of the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health. It provides updated news and advertisements of conferences on paediatrics and neonatology, which cater for your continuous learning needs. You can learn more about membership of the royal college, the diploma in child health, fellowships, and research, and there are useful links for trainees.

You should definitely visit www.nichd.nih.gov/cochrane. Although it does not have an interesting style, this site will surely equip you with indepth knowledge of neonatology. It gives, in alphabetical order, a list of review articles, and it offers news and recent developments, useful links to recommended sites, as well as adverts for jobs and fellowships in the field.

Finally, here is a resource from the University of Edinburgh on post graduate studies in neonatology: www.cpa.ed.ac.uk/calendararchive/2000-2001/pgradh/courses/107.html. This site will tell you about entrance requirements, objectives, curriculum, and examinations. You can get more information by searching the contacts and the university that you are interested in.