Since 1987, the Laureate Awards have been given annually by the Iowa Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the second largest medical specialty organization. The ACP strives to be the recognized leader in quality patient care, advocacy, medical education, and enhancing career satisfaction for internal medicine and its subspecialties. The Laureate Award recognizes […]
After nearly 30 years at UI Hospitals and Clinics and more than 20 of them in the Medicine Specialty Clinic, Nancy Swaney, Frontline Lead, has only recently begun to indulge her nostalgia. Not for the way things used to be around the hospital, but for where she grew up. She and her sister just recently […]
The recent visit to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics by the Joint Commission has afforded the Department of Internal Medicine a unique and important opportunity to focus on specific areas of quality improvement. To everyone who made extra effort during the week of the JC’s review, you have my thanks and my congratulations […]
For more than two decades, the Continuing Medical Education conference Progress in Internal Medicine offered a series of workshops and seminars to connect with local regional health care professionals and showcase the best of the Department’s cutting-edge clinical care. This year, Internal Medicine collaborated with the Department of Pharmacy to reimagine Progress for a modern […]