Orientation week for our interns is filled with a lot of activity and a lot of looking ahead. Learning the layout of the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, getting logons and badges and portraits and handbooks, a tsunami of information, each piece of which feels critical to commit to memory. In an effort to […]
There are many traditions in the new academic year, but there is only one that welcomes dogs and babies. The Interns’ Welcome Picnic has moved over the years, but seems now to have settled at a shelter at City Park. As the Iowa River flowed quietly in the background and as theater-goers gathered to catch […]
What a difference a year and some vaccines make. It was not until September last year that our residency program’s Humanities and Wellness Committee felt comfortable inviting the new interns out to City Park for a welcome meal. And even then, masks, questions over whether communal boxes of pizza were safe, maintaining six feet even […]
No formal ceremonies, no awards, no PowerPoint presentations, no speeches. Just cupcakes, bean bag toss games, and a residency program that cares as much about the comfort of its members as the skills they hope to impart. It was in that spirit that the program hosted a welcome dinner at North Liberty’s Tin Roost restaurant […]
On a beautiful summer evening earlier this week, the Internal Medicine Residency Program held its annual picnic to greet a new class of interns. Having just begun their orientation the day before, these first-year residents were grateful for an opportunity to relax with nothing more important on their plates than to choose between a brat […]
It feels like we barely finished saying good-bye to our graduates, but Tuesday night, it was time to start saying hello. More than 30 residents have already begun their orientation and training in the next big step of their medical careers. The Department of Internal Medicine hosted these trainees and their families in a tranquil […]