Maternal-fetal medicine fellowship conferences + educational presentations at Tufts Medical Center
The Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship at Tufts Medical Center offers a robust schedule of conferences and lectures designed to support fellows’ clinical expertise, research skills and professional development. Fellows attend sessions in their division, department and group. These sessions cover all areas of maternal-fetal medicine, prenatal diagnosis and related subspecialties.
Regularly scheduled lectures and conferences include:
- Weekly divisional clinical conferences: Cover the full field of obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine, including acute intrapartum, antepartum and postpartum complications, medical complications of pregnancy and fetal and maternal physiology.
- Biweekly divisional conferences: Review topics on prenatal diagnosis, genetics, teratology, infectious disease and postnatal management of fetal complications.
- Monthly multidisciplinary antenatal management conference: Includes post-hoc review of prenatally diagnosed anomalies and collaboration between perinatologists, genetic counselors, neonatologists, pediatric subspecialists and radiologists.
- Monthly multidisciplinary basic science conferences: Cover research in obstetrics, gynecology and pediatrics.
- Weekly departmental Grand Rounds: Provide exposure to clinical cases, research updates and expert lectures.
- Monthly departmental Morbidity and Mortality: Focus on reviewing clinical outcomes and quality improvement opportunities.
- Quarterly divisional Journal Club: Discuss recent literature and emerging research in maternal-fetal medicine.
- Quarterly perinatology-neonatology joint conferences: Focus on challenging clinical scenarios with complex fetal and neonatal outcomes.
- Semiannual placental pathology conferences: Explore placental pathology findings and their clinical implications.
