For more than four decades, the Department of Internal Medicine has sponsored Progress, a two-day conference, typically coinciding with the University of Iowa’s Homecoming, for area clinicians to update their continuing medical education requirements in a rotating variety of subspecialties and re-connect with friends and colleagues. In more recent decades, the department has partnered with […]
Progress 2022: A Preview
Back in person for the first time since 2019, Progress 2022: Learning Together in the 21st Century is stressing the “Together” in its title. On Thursday, October 27, and Friday, October 28, at the Hyatt Regency in nearby Coralville, this four-decade-old conference will show that it is still innovating and still providing attendees the most recent […]
Progress, 10/22-23: Call for Abstracts and Registration
Nothing can stop Progress! For forty years, this CME conference has brought health care providers from all over the state to learn about the latest in treatments, devices, and discoveries. More recently, physicians and pharmacists have combined their expertise to present a broader perspective on some of the most pressing issues in health care. This […]
Highlights from Progress 2019
No other professional continuing medical education conference requires as much planning and coordination—or boasts as high an attendance—as the Progress conference. For nearly forty years, Progress has provided attendees with updates on the latest treatments, devices, and discoveries in the full range of medicine. Planners continued to innovate this year with a new format. For the […]
ACP Iowa Chapter Meeting, 2019
Progress is a two-day conference that draws providers from across the state, eager to learn the latest in that year’s chosen five or six subspecialties and to catch up with long-time friends and colleagues. Often it is scheduled the same week as the University of Iowa’s Homecoming or another home football game. Progress is thus […]
Highlights from Progress 2018
Now well into its fourth decade, Progress: Learning Together in the 21st Century is one of the most widely attended Continuing Medical Education conferences that Internal Medicine hosts. This is due to a number of factors, not least of which is the department’s collaboration with the College of Pharmacy. The team-ups between pharmacists and physicians […]
Highlights from Progress, 10/5 & 6, 2017
For two days, health care providers of all stripes from around the state and region met in downtown Iowa City for a tradition that stretches back 33 years. Taking advantage of the University of Iowa Homecoming, the CME conference draws between 150 and 200 attendees each year. And although reunions with classmates and colleagues are […]
Progress, 10/5-6: Call for Abstracts and Registration
Progress 2017: Learning Together in the 21st Century will be back in Iowa City this year at the Sheraton Hotel on October 5 and 6, the same weekend as the University of Iowa’s Homecoming celebration. Last year, this decades-old CME conference featured a newly established collaboration between the Carver College of Medicine and the College […]
Teamwork Advances All of Our Missions
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 […]
Highlights from Progress, 9/29 & 30, 2016
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 […]