NH-TNE Orientation and ongoing progress tracking
Reviewed: May 7, 2025
General information:
o Website for program (clickable)
o Objectives and AFC document reviewing structure and activities
o RC Competency Portfolio, RC documents
o ASE guidelines (see document section)
o Review of rotation and program structure
o Session with Jessica Simoneau: SAVING for Ben C.; PREM for Laurence (7-10 days).
o Review of One45 functionality
§ Logbook on One45
§ Milestones / Subtasks to be filed
§ Handouts and documents
§ ITERs
- Health and Safety Policy
- Appeal Policy
- Promotion policy
- Supervision policy
- Wellness policy
o Well Office / ORE
§ Processes if there are any misconduct / mistreatment
o NH-TNE Competency Committee
§ Members
§ Role
o NH-TNE Resident Program Committee
§ Members
§ Roles
§ Presence at meeting to voice concerns, confidentiality and safety
§ Resident representative on NH-TNE RPC – identify.
o Program Administrator (Amber Gumbley) role
o Members of the program:
§ Neonatologists (MCH – JGH)
§ Cardiologists
§ Imaging Technologists
§ Research personnel
§ Research students
§ Administrative Support
§ Nurses, RTs, Allied Health Care professionals, Pharmacists, Unit coordinator
o Quiz:
§ Beginning of the year
§ At mid-year
§ June block
o Space for NH-TNE fellow, computer access.
o Protected time for mandatory academic activities
o Elective at CHU Sainte Justine
o Ongoing “OSCE style” stations.
o Vacations / Study Leave
o NICU Cardio Rounds
o NH-TNE teachings
o Hard Drives with secure data
o Radimage
o Feedback to faculties and teaching
o Supervisory role: expectations regarding teaching and presentation at neonatal rounds / journal club / NICU cardio rounds.
o Every 3 months review with PD.
o Paper documents / protocols
o NeoCardioLab website – material
§ Orientation and Material on the drive
§ Website modules
§ ECHO modules
o Conference allowed – Funds
o Blurb – Bio – Picture (if not already done) for Fellow section
o Post-Graduate Student Society
Rotations, objectives, learning opportunities, EPAs/Subtasks:
- NICU orientation block
- NH orientation block
- Echo lab rotations
- Cardiology rotations
- Cath Lab (3-4 cases in the year to be organized)
- Reseach / Scholar activity
- Call scheduling and notification of absence during rotations
- NH-TNE Junior
- NH-TNE Senior / Junior Staff
- Elective
Clinical NH-TNE rotations
- Role of fellow in the NH-TNE weeks: touch base with teams, touch base with NH-TNE on call neonatologist.
- Indications for TNE
- Pulmonary Hypertension screening for BPD-PH.
- HIE patients (ECHO Day 1 and Day 4) - NECTAR
- Approach to NH Consultation
- TnECHO full protocol
- Neonatal Hemodynamics Report, Oacis/Paper version
- Machine: Philips and GE
o Put your initials, Blood pressure, Weight, Age on first screen page of ECHO.
o Probes
o Knobology
o ECG wires + Monitors
- Setting up patient for ECHO (music, bundling, etc.)
- Booking patients with nursing. Evaluating appropriateness of request. Evaluate for need of pre-emptive Cardiology involvement or involvement after evaluation.
- Communication with teams.
- NIRS machines – NIRS resources, NIRS Atlas, NIRS videos.
- Syngo utilisation
- TomTec utilisation
- DICOM handling, mp4 creation and anonymization, gif production for presentation
- Measurements / Atlas
- Image review
NeoCardioLab resources
- NeoCardioLab Group messaging
- Globalshare drive
- Password protected portal: ressources and textbooks.
- Case reviews.
- Appendix and Books
- Video modules
- Inotropes and Vasopressors
Research / Scholar Work
- Student training for Research (step by step)
- Scholarly project expectation and identifying project
- Review resources:
o Abstract, manuscript preparation.
- Daniela’s role
- NeoCardioLab lab meetings
- NeoCardioLab Student Email Mailing List
- Atlas of data extraction
- CORE / CHHD + webinars / seminars
- Conferences to target: Regan Giesinger Course, NeoHeart, PAS, UCSF PVD conference, McGill Neonatology Day.
- Ongoing research projects: SPEC, SAVING, HOM, EMBLEM, PURPOSE, SANE, SARABI, NECTAR.
- Nagano
- CIM
- Research Tab and Other Research resources
- Research-Portal
- R – Rstudio
- REB templates
- Structure of the Research Institute
- NeoCardioLab Research Half Day
Hospital orientation
a. Hospitals (MCH-JGH) / floors / cafeteria / food / 5th floor and offices
b. NICU orientation, delivery room, forms
c. MSSS Email
d. Computer account – Windows Account
e. Scrubs
f. MUHC ID card, accesses, activation at stations
g. MUHC-RI accesses and documentation: SOP, GOP/CITI.
h. MUHC Library
i. MUHC-Workshops
ii. MUHC-Links for McGill Library and books available
iii. MUHC Librarians
McGill University level Orientation
i. Email – McGill / MSSS
j. OneDrive
k. EndNote
l. Office
m. Campus/Gym/Academic Facilities – Libraries – On Campus – McGill ID Card
o. One45 – evaluations
p. Calendar
q. McGill Minerva
r. Zoom Account
s. Well Office
t. McGill Librarian
u. ORE – Office of Respectful Education; https://www.mcgill.ca/medhealthsci-respectful-environments/about
Training sessions :
A) Journal Club
B) Neonatal Rounds
C) Academic Half Day of NPM program (only if interested and not conflicting with other clinical or educational activities of the NH-TNE fellow)
D) CANMED sessions
E) OACIS training
F) FDTG, Resident Case Discussion
G) Neonatal Cross-Canada Rounds
H) MockCode, Training Workshop.
I) POCUS day (PURE course)
Please review the documents relative to the program : https://www.neocardiolab.com/neonatal-hemodynamics-fellowship-program-fellow-hémodynamie-néonatale/documents-fellowship
Please review the assessment tools and important links relative to the program : https://www.neocardiolab.com/neonatal-hemodynamics-fellowship-program-fellow-hémodynamie-néonatale/documents-fellowship/assessment-tools
Please review the policies related to the NH-TNE program: https://www.neocardiolab.com/neonatal-hemodynamics-fellowship-program-fellow-hémodynamie-néonatale/documents-fellowship/important-policies