The major goal of our program is to prepare neonatologists for academic careers and we place emphasis on excellence in basic science and clinical research with up to 2/3 of the fellowship time dedicated to research. Fellows rotate through the 120 bed unit at the University of Alabama Hospital (a regional NICU), and a 54 bed unit at The Children's Hospital of Alabama (a Level IV NICU with ECMO and neonatal dialysis), in addition to a month in the cardiac ICU and the newborn follow-up clinic.