Clerkships in Pediatrics at Oakland

Intensive Care Nursery Subinternship

Kaiser Oakland is pleased to offer a 4 week Pediatric Intensive Care Nursery Subinternship to 4th year medical students who have completed their core rotation at a U.S. medical school. Rotations are offered August through June for one student per month. In addition, we offer subinternships on our Pediatric ward and in our outpatient clinics. Information on these can be obtained by contacting our Medical Education Office at (510) 752-1375.

The Pediatric Department at Kaiser Oakland consists of a large primary care outpatient division with over 100,000 clinic visits per year, an inpatient service with a 24 bed general Pediatric ward, a 6 bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, a 29 bed Intensive Care Nursery, and a well baby nursery that cares for approximately 2000 babies per year. The Pediatric Residency Program at Kaiser Oakland is comprised of 19 residents (6 residents per year plus a chief resident.)

The NICU is a 29 bed level III unit located at Kaiser Oakland Hospital. Kaiser Oakland is a high risk obstetric referral center with a large volume of deliveries, providing residents and medical students with the opportunity to develop excellent skills in neonatal resuscitation. The NICU team consists of 2 residents, a nurse practitioner, and a neonatologist.

As part of the NICU team, you will function, with supervision, as the primary caretaker for your assigned patients. You will be able to attend deliveries with a supervising resident, on-call pediatrician, or neonatologist and learn skills in neonatal resuscitation. You will then have the opportunity to further work-up admissions, develop care plans, write daily notes and orders; all of which will be reviewed and countersigned by your supervising resident or neonatologist. You will also be expected to attend our lunchtime teaching conferneces. In addition, you will have the opportunity to expand your neonatal knowledge base by reading about your patient’s diagnoses and preparing a talk for the NICU team. There may also be opportunities to perform routine procedures such as venipuncture and IV placement. Call with an in-house Pediatrician or Neonatologist will be every 4-5 nights.

If you are interested in obtaining more information about a rotation in the NICU at Kaiser Oakland, please contact Trixy
Bulda in the Medical Education Department at 510-752-1375 or trixy.bulda@kp.org. More information about our Pediatric Residency Program can be obtained here.