The rotation at Hartford Hospital in Maternal-Fetal Medicine consists of hand-on ultrasound experience and didactics in high risk pregnancy diagnosis and management. The resident becomes a part of our team that provides care for a large number of patients (>6000/yr) referred to our unit for evaluation. Our team consists of four maternal fetal specialists, three sonographers, a genetic counselor and two perinatal nurses. The residents are directly supervised and participate in both the ultrasound scanning and procedures performed in our unit. Also, the resident rounds on the antepartum high-risk patients with the OB senior residents in the mornings and helps with the high-risk clinic one day a week.
Full-time Faculty:
Dr. Charles Ingardia
Dr. Deborah Feldman
Dr. Adam Borgida
University of Connecticut Health Center
The division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Connecticut is an eight member academic faculty practice. As an integral component of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Connecticut Health Center and School of Medicine, the division provides academic and clinical services in support of the mission of the institution. The academic goals of the program are to train post residency housestaff to become certified perinatologists, train residents to develop competent clinical skills in the evaluation and management of complicated pregnancies. This training also includes development of skill in performing obstetric ultrasound and diagnostic amniocentesis. We teach medical students basic clinical obstetric pathophysiology during their non-clerkship years and the fundamentals of clinical perinatology during their clerkship rotations. The training of fellows and residents is done in an integrated fashion. The clinical perinatal team is a composite of a maternal-fetal medicine attending, fellow, senior and junior residents and medical students on rotation. The division members are actively engaged in patient-oriented research in areas of maternal-fetal medicine pertaining to prenatal diagnosis, obstetrical ultrasound, HIV infection during pregnancy, clinical obstetrics. Daily rounds involves any rotating medical students, residents, a fellow and an attending. Bimonthly placental pathology conference and neonatology conference occur on Tuesday mornings.
