At the recent meeting of the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA), inn Williamsburg, Virginia, Manish Suneja, MD, became its newest member. Suneja serves as the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Vice Chair for Education, and Associate Dean for Medical Education Integration and Innovation in the Carver College of Medicine. The ACCA […]
Amanda Chang, MD, third-year internal medicine resident, and her mentor, Manish Suneja, MD, clinical professor in Nephrology and residency program director, shared a “teachable moment” that became so much more with its publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. While working together in inpatient Internal Medicine services, the pair encountered […]
For this year’s resident program winter social, residents and program administrators alike gathered their families and headed to Field Day, North Liberty’s newest craft brewery, for food and fun. As kids filed into the room, they noticed the brightly colored duckpin bowling alley right away, tugging on their parents’ sleeves and asking to play. Taking […]
Providing timely, effective feedback after clinical encounters is a cornerstone of resident training. Recognizing the need for a better system, members of the Department of Internal Medicine (Manish Suneja, Jane Rowat, and Girish Mhatre) developed qUIkcoach, an innovative app designed to make feedback more immediate, targeted, and actionable. “This user-friendly tool ensures that valuable teaching […]
At the beginning of last month’s Culturally Responsive Health Care in Iowa conference, Drs. Rachel Anderson, Adam Blaine, Katherine Harris, Krista Johnson, Tyler Maggio, Laurel Smeins, Alice Xu, and Kathie Zhang were presented the 2024 Culturally Responsive Health Care Award for the care provided to underserved patients in partnership with the Iowa City Free Medical […]
The skies on the evening of Thursday, June 14—the night of Internal Medicine’s Residency Graduation—trembled with excitement overhead Hancher Auditorium in synchronicity with the tenor of the occasion. As guests arrived, they were greeted by the warm, golden hour light of the windowed lobby, and an invitation to have their photo taken with friends, family, […]
Led by Clinical Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine, Matthew Soltys, MD, the Department of Internal Medicine Transition to Residency (TTR) course is a two-week elective offered through the Carver College of Medicine to fourth-year medical students who have applied to Internal Medicine residency programs, or are spending a preliminary year in Internal Medicine before […]
Manish Suneja, MD, is the Vice Chair for Education and Program Director (PD) of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. He sat down with us recently to talk briefly about where the program has been and where it is headed next. You became Program Director in 2014, eight years ago. Who was instrumental in helping you […]
Last year, the third year for the Intern Objective Structured Clinical Evaluations (OSCE) was the most successful yet. Organizers Manish Suneja, MD, and Jane Rowat, MS, had received the stamp of peer review and had expanded to include interns from two other residency programs (Anesthesia and Family Medicine) within University of Iowa Health Care for evaluation. But just […]
DeGowin’s Diagnostic Examination, Eleventh Edition, the newest in a series of updates of the classical clinical manual, will hit the market this Friday. At one time, this well-known text was required reading in nearly every medical school in North America. It was conceived and first penned by Elmer DeGowin, MD, a member of the department’s […]