We are proud to present the incoming Intern Class of 2023. We wanted to take the opportunity to go a little past the names and faces and learn a couple things about them. We asked them each to tell us about why they chose Internal Medicine at Iowa for their residency. And, now that they […]
Article: Novel Men’s Health Curriculum Increases Fraternity Members’ Knowledge, Confidence, and Willingness to Seek Help for Health Concerns Authors: Wade R Gutierrez, Margaret Gannon, Aaron M Scherer, Amy Pearlman Journal: Urology. 2023 Aug;178:21-25 Abstract: Objective: To evaluate fraternity members’ men’s health knowledge, confidence in understanding, and the likelihood of seeking help for men’s health concerns […]
The American Medical Association has designated September as Women in Medicine month. Last year, I asked a few of our women faculty to offer their thoughts on what the subject means to them. Last year’s writers revealed hope and talked about finding a supportive environment here in the Carver College of Medicine or in a […]
The following is an announcement from the Iowa City VA Health Care System. The Telehospital Medicine Program (Tele-HM Program), which has provided services since 2019 to five rural hospitals in the midwest, has been awarded $1.5 million in national funding from the Office of Rural Health to revolutionize health care access for veterans nationwide. The […]
The following newsletter is provided by clinical associate professor Jeydith Gutierrez, MD, MPH, Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Department of Internal Medicine. September is one of my favorite months of the year, with mild weather, mostly sunny days and the leaves starting to turn to display the variety of beautiful fall […]
Medicine residents showcased their strangest, most complex, and puzzling cases they have seen while practicing at University of Iowa Health Care in this year’s American College of Physicians (ACP) Clinical Vignette Competition. Attendees—made up of Internal Medicine faculty, learners, staff, and judges—of the final presentations on Monday, September 18, offered supporting questions to the four […]
The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to introduce some of the faculty members who joined us in July and August 2023. We are happy to welcome them to the department. Serkan Bektur, MD – Clinical Instructor Dr. Serkan Bektur joins the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine after completing his advanced heart failure and transplantation cardiology […]
We are proud to present the incoming Intern Class of 2023. We wanted to take the opportunity to go a little past the names and faces and learn a couple things about them. We asked them each to tell us about why they chose Internal Medicine at Iowa for their residency. And, now that they […]
Article: Clinical Activity of Combined Telomerase Vaccination and Pembrolizumab in Advanced Melanoma: Results from a Phase I Trial Authors: Espen B Ellingsen, Steven O’Day, Artur Mezheyeuski, Agnieszka Gromadka, Trevor Clancy, Timothy S Kristedja, Mohammed Milhem, Yousef Zakharia Journal: Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Aug 15;29(16):3026-3036 Abstract: Purpose: Cancer vaccines represent a novel treatment modality with a […]
Learners in the Carver College of Medicine are invited to provide examples of effective teaching at the end of each rotation. Read what our trainees recently had to say about Internal Medicine educators below. Three were submitted in June, at the end of the previous academic year, which is noted parenthetically, and their rank at […]