Women's Health

Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program

Educational Objectives

The fellowship program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is designed to fulfill the educational objectives listed in the Guide to Learning in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and to train future academic leaders in perinatal research. We approach that goal by selecting fellows with either basic science interests or strong interests in clinical research. We foster these interests by offering the Fellows a flexible curriculum in a near ideal environment for growth.

In all three years, fellows are required to initiate, complete, and report at least one research project, typically to be presented at the annual meeting of The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine. Mentors are assigned from the MFM faculty for each project, and meet frequently with the fellow to facilitate study design, IRB submission, data collection, data analysis and manuscript preparation. In addition, there is a monthly seminar devoted to planning and review of progress of the fellows research.

Fellows who wish to pursue an MPH during the fellowship are afforded the opportunity to do so. Fellows who wish to other additional post-fellowship basic science or epidemiologic programs will be afforded the opportunity to complete course work for the selected basic science or epidemiology degree. At the completion of the fellowship, the individual will remain on campus as an adjunct faculty member completing post-thesis research or course requirements. Note that all fellows in MFM at UMB complete the same self-contained and complete three-year program that fully prepares the Fellow for the board examination in Maternal Fetal Medicine. However, the Fellow who elects to pursue an MPH degree or continue in a post-Fellowship program may carry an additional academic course load. We feel that the MFM program will allow the University of Maryland to produce well-qualified academicians in perinatal medicine. The option of advanced training will allow further nurturing and development of these gifted young academicians in such a way as to complement and not compete with the Fellowship.

Fellowship Rotation Template
Year One
	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun
Institution	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS
Service	Intro to Ultrasound Research	Intro to Perinatal Genetics	Ultrasound Research	Intro to Basic Science Research	Research	Research	Research	Research	MFM	MFM	MFM	MFM
Year Two
Institution	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS
Service	Research	Research	Research	Research	MFM	MFM	MFM	MFM	Obstetric Anesthesia	Critical Care SICU	CAFCMMC	CAFCMMC
Year Three
Institution	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS	UMMS
Service	MFM	MFM	MFM	MFM	Fetal Echo	Fetal Echo	Research	Research	Research	Research	Research Thesis Completion	Research Thesis Completion

This page was last updated on: October 12, 2007.