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The Academic Difference

Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.^®

The “academic difference” at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics begins with a belief that the very best health care is delivered in a multi-faceted environment of care and compassion, of learning and discovery, of development and refinement.

New and innovative ideas blossom when teams of physicians, researchers, nurses, therapists, technologists, and other health care professionals take a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.

At UI Hospitals and Clinics, the treatment of patients is managed not by a single specialist, but by many specialists and caregivers working together, each bringing a unique and deeply caring perspective to the patient’s condition.

Quality care at UI Hospitals and Clinics is delivered in collaboration with University of Iowa Physicians, the state's largest multi-specialty medical and surgical group practice composed of faculty physicians of the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

UI Hospitals and Clinics fulfills its teaching mission in partnership with the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.  Working together, we serve the state’s clinical education needs, providing sophisticated “classrooms” for medical students, physicians-in-training, nurses, and other medical professionals.

Similarly, this partnership benefits all Iowans through biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and health services research. The quest to alleviate human suffering, rehabilitate injuries, and prevent disease and premature death is a continual process requiring basic and applied research.

For patients and families, this research enterprise provides added value at the bedside, ranging from opportunities to voluntarily participate in groundbreaking clinical trials to having access to the newest, most innovative approaches to patient care.

In these and many other ways, UI Hospitals and Clinics and its partners in academic medicine are the vanguards of instruction, research, and multidisciplinary patient care.