Welcome to the Fetal Medicine Foundation
The Fetal Medicine Foundation is a Registered Charity that aims to improve the health of pregnant women and their babies through research and training in fetal medicine.
The Foundation, with the support of an international group of experts, has introduced an educational programme both for healthcare professionals and parents and a series of certificates of competence in different aspects of fetal medicine.
In the last 15 years, The Foundation has supported research and training in the following areas through grants to a total of more than £11 million:
- Early diagnosis of fetal abnormalities
- Screening for chromosomal defects
- Intrauterine fetal surgery
- Causes and prevention of miscarriage and stillbirth
- Prediction and prevention of pre-term delivery
- Preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction
- Problems of multiple pregnancies
- Development of safer techniques for prenatal diagnosis
If you are a health care professional and you want to go to your own FMF page please login below:
World Congress in Fetal Medicine 2012
- World Congress main page
- For abstract submission, please click hereNew
- Information for exhibitors and sponsors
New on the FMF website
- A video Blog dedicated to ultrasound imaging in the 11-13 weeks scan click hereNew
- Videos illustrating common and rare fetal defects, click here
- FMF approved courses around the world
- Turning the pyramid of prenatal care
- Lectures in different topics of fetal medicine.
Online education
The courses are free of charge and they are appropriate for both health care professionals and patients