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Medical Special Needs: Premature Birth


Description

In this training, Dr. Jennifer Chambers from The Adoption and Foster Care Clinic discusses the basics of premature birth to help inform prospective adoptive parents considering adoption referrals and potential matches. Dr. Chambers covers risk factors and causes of premature birth, potential health complications in infants born pre-term, and treatment of the baby post-birth. This session also discusses common birth weights and prognoses by gestational age.


Jennifer Chambers, MD, MPH&TM – Medical Director, The Adoption and Foster Care Clinic 


Course length: 15 minutes
Certificate type: This course offers an attendance certificate.

Recorded 9/8/25


PLEASE NOTE - This course does not provide continuing education credits.

Content
  • Medical Special Needs: Premature Birth - Recorded
  • Medical Special Needs: Premature Birth - Evaluation
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever
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