Hi everyone!

I'm a graduate student in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, currently completing my internship at a group home for teenage girls.

One of my clients is a 17-year-old young woman who has expressed a strong interest in becoming a neonatal nurse, and I'd love to help her explore that career path and better understand what it would take to get there.

I'm hoping someone in this community who works in neonatal nursing (or the NICU) might be willing to spend about 20 minutes on a video call with her to share their experience.

Specifically, I'd love for her to hear about:

• How you got into neonatal nursing and what inspired you to pursue it
• The education, training, and steps required to enter the field
• What a typical day looks like and what you find most rewarding or challenging about the work
• Any advice you'd give a young person just starting to consider this career

For young people transitioning out of residential care, having access to professional guidance and mentorship can make a meaningful difference. I think hearing directly from someone working in the field could help her see this goal as something tangible and achievable.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this! I'm really hoping someone here might be willing to share a little of their time and experience to encourage a young woman as she begins planning her future.

Please feel free to comment or send me a DM if you're interested!

Hi everyone! I’m conducting a capstone study on healthcare professionals’ acceptance of AI-based tools in neonatal healthcare monitoring and analytics. 🔗 https://forms.gle/x9gSbAKZjiWvU5J79

The study explores perceived usefulness, trust, and intention to use AI-assisted systems in neonatal care settings.

Target participants include:

• Doctors (including pediatricians/neonatologists)
• Nurses (including NICU staff)
• Medical officers
• Hospital administrators
• Medical students and healthcare trainees

The survey takes ~10–15 minutes and is anonymous.

Your input would be highly valuable for this research. Thank you!

🔗 https://forms.gle/x9gSbAKZjiWvU5J79

Ich hab mein Ausbildung zur pädiatrischen Pflegefachfrau beendet und fange bald auf der Neo an. Ich wollte fragen, ob ihr mir Literatur oder hilfreiche Bücher, Sets etc zur Pflege auf der Neo vorschlagen könnte
Ich dachte vielleicht an so ein Pocket set wo Vital-, Laborwerte, etc. drauf stehen
Ist sowas sinnvoll? Kennt ihr welche?

https://neonatology.app/

Hi,

I am MSc student at UCL. I am exploring a tool to combine ventricle size, progression, and clinical signs into a unified, actionable risk score.

It would really help me if you could spare few minutes and share your thoughts on:

1. Which ventricular measurements (VI, AHW, TOD) you routinely perform.
2. How you track changes in ventricular size over time.
3. How you decide when to escalate care (e.g., neurosurgery consult, LP, shunt planning).
4. Challenges or pain points in reporting cranial ultrasounds
5. I am exploring a combined score that uses size, progression, and clinical signs to quantify risk. Does this approach make sense to you? How would you see it fitting into your practice?

My son was born at 27 weeks due to placental abruption. It all happened very quickly and was very traumatic. We spent days and nights in the NICU, learning to survive, watching him fight against everything, and he pulled through 🩷 my warrior Baltazar

Hi everyone,

I’m Sarah, a graduate student at Notre Dame studying STEM Entrepreneurship with a background in engineering. For my capstone project, I’m conducting academic research on how neonatal EEG/aEEG monitoring fits into NICU and neurology workflows.

My goal is to better understand the practical challenges clinicians face when performing or reviewing EEGs for newborns, things like workflow bottlenecks, coordination between NICU and neurology, and what an “ideal” process might look like in practice.

I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone with experience in neonatal EEG or neuro-monitoring who’s open to sharing insight into:

• Common workflow or communication challenges
• Ordering and review processes between NICU and neurology teams
• Suggestions for improving EEG accessibility or turnaround times
• All other experiences relating to EEG/aEEG use

This is purely for academic research, no recruitment, compensation, or product promotion involved.
If you’re open to sharing your perspective, feel free to comment here or message me privately. I’m happy to arrange a short 10–20-minute chat at your convenience, but written responses here are just as helpful.

Thank you very much for considering, I truly appreciate your time and expertise.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to share a new (free) study resource a friend and I built, flashtrackmed.com. We’re using a number of large language models (GPT5 and others) to generate practice questions, and we spent a few months experimenting with different question‑creation pipelines to get the quality up. Each question starts from a topic in the ABP outline to make sure it’s relevant. We linked them to flashcards that get added to your deck as you get qbank questions wrong. We made the Neonatology set because I have Neo boards coming up and there aren't any complete Qbanks out there.

Right now there are a few hundred neonatology and pediatric questions but we can make more if people find them useful. Everything is free at the moment, no login required, and the site’s still in alpha so expect a glitch or two. Wanted to make everything available now though because we know boards are coming up. Would love any feedback if you decide to try it out! ---Michael and Andrew

Can anybody tell me if its okay to leave the seat and opt for medic genetics and will it pay anything?

I'm just wondering how rare this is for an essay and Google doesn't know.

Edit: the chances are extremely slim. Simplified the answer is 0.0003

Hello! I am a current undergrad student interested in pursuing medicine, with the eventual goal of becoming a neonatologist! However, I did have concerns about the work-life balance with residency and then the fellowship that comes after. I want a large family (4+) kids in the future, and was unsure if this would be feasible since I want to be present and have my family at a young age (around my mid to late 20's for my first.) If anyone can tell me how the day to day life is and balancing this career with a family is, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Hello, I am currently a rising sophomore in undergrad. I am interested in becoming a practicing Neonatologist, but I am having hard time preparing for med school as I would be the first in my family to do so.

I've recently joined this community and I would love some advice or support. Thank you so much! Have a lovely day.

Does anybody know which programs have unfilled Neonatology spots for the 2025 academic year? Or how I can figure that out?

If I am interested in Neonatology but am not naturally good at neonatal resuscitation as an intern, is that a sign I should not go into neonatology? Current neonatologists, how long did it take to become very comfortable doing NRP? what are some reasons that one should not go into neonatology even if you love it (for example, being soft spoken or not doing well under pressure)

I am working on my application for this upcoming cycle. I've worked as a general pediatrician for 1.5 years at this time. I wanted to see if any current attendings or fellows could give light to the job market at this time as it's unclear to me using practicelink, aap, pediatrix so far.

What are the common schedule tropes available for neonatologists? I see jobs asking for 2 weeks on 2 weeks off, covering 1/3 of the month, 24 hr shifts, 8,12,16hr shifts. What generally has the best work life balance and what type has the best compensation? What about for locums?

My hope would be to work 8 x 24 hr shifts a month and spend some time doing locums on my time off is that achievable? Thanks!

And feel free to DM me instead if that works better for you.

Neo attendings, what are some good resources you all used to study for the boards?

After 5 yrs of working in small town(middle of nowhere ), I am ready to move. But jobs in mid size to big metros are very scarce. Has retirement slowed down or there are a lot more neonatologists now?

About treatment for neonates with IVH (Intraventricular hemorrhage). Is there a particular aspect of treatment that, if improved, would dramatically improve outcomes? What are the gaps in the current treatment strategy?

And is it any real