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ReviewJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2026

Threats to neonatologists' professional identity formation: ethical implications of condensing neonatal-perinatal fellowship.

Stephanie K Kukora, Megan Mariner Gray, Courtney Kiser McLean, Jeanne Krick

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Review in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Stephanie K KukoraBioethics Center and Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA. skkukora@cmh.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-7327
Megan Mariner GrayDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3272-9432
Courtney Kiser McLeanDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0373-3448
Jeanne KrickDepartment of Pediatrics, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6461-3776

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) recently announced a plan to alter pediatric subspecialty fellowship training. Such changes pose meaningful ethical and psychosocial consequences on neonatologists' professional identity formation (PIF), including how they develop moral reasoning, experience and manage distress, and sustain themselves in practice. In the current state, the ABP's plan poses serious ethical risks, compromising not only the foundations of future neonatologists but also our mission to provide high-quality patient care. In this paper, we argue that it is an ethical imperative for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (NPM) fellowship programs to nurture the evolving professional identities of learners who will guide future innovation and progress in the field, while providing education that supports ethical, family-centered, high-quality clinical care for the most vulnerable patients.

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