Earlier this week a host of physicians across the country learned where the next phase of their career would take them. The fellowship match day might be slightly less headline-grabbing than the matching of MD graduates with residency programs, but for our department and our residency program, it is just as important. We are proud […]

Although the turkey, rolls, stuffing, and potatoes form the core of most people’s Thanksgiving meals, many families make changes to those staples or skip them altogether. I am always interested in how families adapt and make holidays their own. Maybe it is some secret ingredient your grandma added to the yams or a card game […]

For nearly 150 years, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has helped organize and standardize medical education in this country. That longevity gives them a unique vantage point to track and report on trends. One trend they have been watching is the growing number of women becoming physicians. Just 6 years ago the number […]

This week was the department’s 59th annual Internal Medicine Research Day. This tradition gives us a chance to celebrate the incredibly broad spectrum of activity conducted by members of this department. Like all our missions, research is inextricably linked with education and clinical care, as it should be, but the immediacy we find in working […]

The days may be long, but a year can go quickly. Next week will mark exactly one year since I had the honor to become chair & DEO of Internal Medicine at Iowa. In my first weeks I was often asked whether my expectations matched my experience. It wasn’t just curiosity, but a genuine expression […]

Stop the presses! It is not often that dramatic events require a last-minute addition to a Friday post, but here we are. Yesterday’s news that Dr. Michael Welsh will receive the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award certainly qualifies. For 80 years the Lasker Foundation has recognized discoveries in basic and clinical science that fundamentally change […]

Although our new trainees are almost two months into their time with us, it is the first week of classes for most of the rest of the state. For our K-12 students, for our undergraduate and graduate students across the state, this week is an exciting time. Sidewalks around campus are filled back up and […]

From our very first days as a nation, the United States recognized a responsibility to its Veterans. After our first soldiers did the heavy lifting when it came to earning our independence from monarchy, the US War Department established a small office to pay service members a pension. Over the decades, that office expanded, usually […]