Top 10 Reasons to Pick the University of Iowa Children's Hospital for Pediatric Residency Training

10.  Iowa City is an excellent city in which to live when you are very busy.  It is safe, affordable, vibrant, with great performing arts, sports, and recreational opportunities.

9.  Iowa patients come from a full cross-section of socio-economic status families, and they return for care as scheduled -- a very critical feature of resident learning by witnessing the results of prescribed therapy.

8. University of Iowa Children's Hospital at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is a solvent teaching hospital, an increasingly rare entity, and therefore can continue to staff adequately and, indeed, build new facilities and add state-of-the-art equipment.

7. The pediatric practice is sufficiently diverse -- by race, cultural background, and rich in pathology diversity.  We see approximately 75% of the extremely ill and seriously ill children 18 years and under in the State.  Thirteen percent of University of Iowa Children's Hospital patients are non-Caucasian.  We care for Latino, African-American, Bosnian, as well as Asian and subcontinent patients.

6. Pediatric surgical programs at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital are exceptionally strong, with three ranking in the U. S. News and World Report top 10.  As a result in pediatrics, you will see a huge breadth of surgical pathology and be taught by some of the world’s best teachers.

5. Nurses at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital are wonderfully competent and professional.  They are our partners in developing quality improvement and safe courses of therapy that lead to outstanding patient outcomes.

4. New facilities are a 55-bed special care nursery, a 16-bed PICU, and renovated inpatient areas for the other pediatric service patients.

3. The breadth of expertise and depth in major areas of pediatrics means up-to-date teaching in every area of pediatrics for our residents.  Pediatric sports medicine, pediatric rheumatology, and forensic pediatrics (child abuse and neglect), expertise often not offered, are present here.

2. Strong academic faculty and researchers will be your teachers.  The Department of Pediatrics receives awards in excess of $16M in external research funds annually.

1. Our residency program has a long tradition of producing outstanding pediatricians, and this is the result of the care and attention devoted to the curriculum and to the national leadership our program has developed.  We include resident-year-specific retreats, a pediatric career day for PL-2s, multiple weekly teaching sessions and evaluation and feedback.  Our program is fully ACGME compliant.