The Department of Internal Medicine is fully committed to the complete spectrum of medical education.
We are proud to present this year’s incoming interns. 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 have been […]
In two weeks, Carver College of Medicine leaders will ceremoniously cloak UI’s new class of medical students in their white coats at Hancher Auditorium. Some M1s have had their sights set on a specialty long before their white coat ceremony, while others anticipate that new learning experiences and mentorship opportunities will direct their focus. Aimed […]
Take a look at our upcoming CME conferences. Lots of educational opportunities! Metabolic Health in Motion Friday, September 19, 2025, 8:00 am – Saturday, September 20, 2025, 5:00 pm Hyatt Regency Coralville, Coralville, IA Registration and Event Details Metabolic associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has become the most common chronic liver disease worldwide, affecting nearly […]
For the ninth time, the University of Iowa has hosted the Midwest Critical Care Fellows Ultrasound Symposium, a two-day conference that brings first-year pulmonary and critical care fellows and faculty from institutions across the region and beyond to Iowa City. This year, a record-setting 108 fellows came from 14 academic medical centers to spend two […]
Iowa City VA Staff Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor in Hospital Medicine Matthew Soltys, MD, MME, was recognized for his local and national commitment to engaging physicians and medical trainees in robust quality improvement (QI) and patient safety education. Nearing 80 years of partnership with American medical schools, the Veterans Health Administration recognized Soltys’s standout […]
Continuous improvement is not just an expectation for trainees in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, it is also the standard for the program’s faculty and curriculum. A visible example can be seen in what was known for nearly nine years as the Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE), but is now called Clinical Skills Coaching for […]
For the second summer in a row, Ian Thornell, PhD, assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, took his expertise 1,243 miles northeast to MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Surrounded by the granite peaks and rocky beaches of Acadia National Park, this historic lab hosts the Kidney TREKS [Tutored Research & […]
Though the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism may be one of the department’s smaller divisions, its members turned out in full force to celebrate the graduates of their Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism fellowship. In addition to faculty, fellows, and clinician colleagues, many members of the graduates’ families also were present at Rapid Creek Cidery north […]
First-year fellows marked the commencement of their program journeys earlier this week when they picked up their pagers outside the Medical Alumni Auditorium before joining together to learn about some small commonalities they shared with those in other specialities. Representing a variety of the department’s 17 fellowship programs, the brand-new F1s tuned into some instruction […]
Though today, July 1, is the first day of the new academic year and the first day that the newest class of interns to join our residency program are officially on the job, they have spent the last week getting ready for “Day One.” Their first morning started early with a breakfast orientation. Program Director […]