Training & Education

Education:

Educational activities include supervision and teaching of neonatal fellows, pediatric and combined medicine-pediatrics house staff, and medical students from USC. Dr. Rangasamy Ramanathan is the ACGME accredited Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program Director. The program is one of the largest fellowship-training programs in the country with a total of 18 fellows in the program.  In the carefully structured fellowship-training program, faculty neonatologists provide didactic lectures and conduct workshops for the fellows and residents. In addition, didactic and bedside education and training of pediatric and medicine-pediatric house staff, NNPs, PNPs, neonatal nurses and respiratory care practitioners is performed according to a multidisciplinary training plan. Dr. Manoj Biniwale is the Los Angeles General Medical Center Section Director of Neonatal Simulation Program with the capacity to provide weekly simulation-based training to all members of the neonatal health care team.

Various academic, clinical as well as research courses offered annually to the fellows:

Functional Echocardiography Course 
ECMO Course
Cranial Ultrasonography Course 
PICC Line Course
Biostatistics Course 
STABLE Course 
NRP and Simulation Program
NRP Instructor Course
Weekly Mandatory Core Curriculum Lectures
Proficiency in Teaching

Fast Facts of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program:

ACGME Accredited 5 years:  Yes
Fellows per year:  6
Duration:  3 years
Postgraduate Training Required:  Yes
U.S. Citizenship Required: No

USC Masters Program

Contact Information
Program Director
Rangasamy Ramanathan, MD
Email: ramanath@usc.edu or Call (323) 226-3406