The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the University of Colorado Denver is designed to prepare fellows for an academic career and to develop the clinical skills required to serve as a perinatal consultant. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is well funded and serves as one of the centers for the NIH Women’s Reproductive Health Research grants.
Program Details
During
the three-year training program, the fellow will spend a minimum of 1 year in
protected research activities, 15 months of perinatal clinical work, and 6
months of electives (clinical or research time). Clinical activity
includes involvement with high-risk patients on the antepartum service,
high-risk obstetrics clinic, and diabetes clinic, as well as extensive
experience in the prenatal diagnosis center with ultrasound, genetic
amniocentesis, fetal blood sampling and transfusion, and placental biopsies.
Clinical activity is carried out in 3 primary areas: 1) at the University of
Colorado Hospital where 250-300 maternal-fetal transports occur annually, 2) at
the Children’s Hospital of Colorado where the fellow participates and is
exposed exclusively to evaluation and treatment of pregnancies complicated with
fetal anomalies, multidisciplinary educational and family conferences with
multiple pediatric subspecialties, and fetal intervention procedures (laser for
TTTS, in utero MMC repair, fetoscopic procedures, etc), and 3) Outpatient
prenatal diagnosis, ultrasound and genetic consultations at any one of several
sites staffed by our MFM faculty. The fellows have an extensive didactic
experience including a Maternal-Fetal Physiology course that occurs on a 3-year
cycle.
There
is a significant basic science and clinical collaboration with the Department
of Pediatrics, as well as other departments in a productive collegial
environment. There are large and small animal capabilities, including an internationally
renown perinatal research facility using a sheep model of IUGR . Training in
all aspects of molecular biology is available. The research program has a wide
variety of basic and clinical research options with an emphasis on experimental
design and data analysis which are offered to the fellow through four possible
research tracts:
Placental Biology Track
Fetal Physiology Track
Reproductive Biology
Clinical track
- Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetics
- Obstetrical Clinical Research Track
- Fetal Intervention Track
Application Requirements and Directions
The application deadline is May 31st. We will require the standard ERAS application, CV, USMLE & CREGO scores, three Letters of Reference and Personal Statement. Please send your additional application materials as email attachments to fellowships.OBGYN@ucdenver.edu. Please state in this email that you are applying for the MFM fellowship.