Internal Medicine Residency
Clinical Opportunities
The development of our residents into well rounded physicians is the core of the University of Iowa Internal Medicine residency mission. This growth happens by taking care of patients in clinic and at beside.
Our program utilizes an X+Y schedule that allows for abundant patient care-experiences in both the inpatient and outpatient settings with increasing levels of autonomy as residents progress through their training. Our residents rotate for 4 weeks on an inpatient general medicine service or subspecialty consult service followed by a 1 week experience dedicated to ambulatory medicine (the Y week). This system allows for significant individualization of schedules so residents can pursue their interests in specific subspecialties or explore many different subspecialties as they decide if they want to go into a specific subspecialty or become a general internist.
See the overview of the 4+1 schedule.
Highlights
MAT Clinic
Residents can care for people with substance use disorders (SUD) by electing the Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) clinic as one of their elective or continuity clinic experiences. Residents who spend time in the MAT clinic get clinical exposure in starting and managing evidence-based medications for SUD. They will support patients through early and established recovery, screen and treat for concurrent medical and psychiatric comorbidity, and advocate for patients as they intersect with other non-healthcare institutions encountered by people with SUD.
If you are interested in doing a preliminary year at the University of Iowa or our medicine-psychiatry residency program, please check out the information below.
Preliminary Year
A one-year program is available for candidates who require Internal Medicine training prior to starting another specialty. We treat our preliminary residents the same as we do our categorical residents. Our prelims participate in the same orientation as our categorical residents, they are invited to all of our didactic conferences, and all of our residency’s social events outside of the hospital. The year culminates with a graduation ceremony that celebrates the 3rd year categorical residents’ graduation and also our prelims graduation as they move on from the IM program to their respective specialty of choice.
We also work with our prelims to individualize their schedule as much as possible to maximize the applicability of their rotations to their future career specialty. The major difference between the prelim schedule and the categorical schedule is there is no Y-week, only 4 week blocks of rotations.
For more information on our prelim year, please reach out to intmedres@uiowa.edu.
Internal Medicine-Psychiatry Combined Residency
The Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Combined Residency Program at the University of Iowa is a 5-year program that offers residents the opportunity to provide comprehensive care to patients with comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions.
learn more about the Internal Medicine-Psychiatry Fellowship Program.
Our Facilities
See where you will be learning medicine by checking out our facilities.