The Family Medicine Clinic is one of three primary care clinics located in the Family Care Center at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. This state-of-the-art clinical facility has all the features of a modern physician’s office – plus dedicated suites for ambulatory surgery (arthrocentesis, joint injections, dermatological and orthopaedic procedures, and vasectomy), EKG treadmill stress test, and gynecology procedures (colposcopies, endometrial biopsy, IUD/Implanon, LEEP). The Family Care Center has on-site X-ray and laboratory facilities, and an electronic medical record that combines patient-centered information storage and retrieval with the best in electronic patient education materials, real-time literature searching capabilities, and seamless integration with the Internet.

The Family Medicine Clinic is the central learning facility of the residency. It is in this setting that residents develop their office medicine skills and provide care to patients who selected them as their family physician. Residents maintain responsibility for their patients’ care throughout the three years of training, thereby acquiring the skills needed to deliver continuing and comprehensive care. Emphasis is placed on patient education and maintaining health as well as treating disease.

The residents learn to work within a health care team that includes faculty and resident physicians and designated nursing staff. A social worker, nutritionist, and clinical pharmacist are also members of the health care professionals in the Family Medicine Clinic.
Members of the Family Medicine faculty provide supervision of residents in the Family Medicine Clinic. Consultations are obtained from subspecialty physicians or faculty members of the UI Carver College of Medicine, with hospitalization at UI Hospitals and Clinics. The residents direct the care of their patients regardless of the specialty area involved in the consultation and/or hospitalization.