The University of Iowa Children's Hospital is a state-of-the-art pediatric facility integrated within the UI Hospitals and Clinics. Each year, UI Children's Hospital experiences more than 100,000 clinic visits and more than 6,000 inpatient admissions. In addition, numerous pediatric outreach and satellite clinics provide primary and specialty care for children in communities throughout Iowa. A "hospital within a hospital," UI Children's Hospital benefits from the sophisticated services and comprehensive resources of UI Hospital and Clinics, one of "America's Best Hospitals" designated by U.S.News & World Report.
As a part of a major university teaching hospital, we enjoy access to diagnostic equipment and treatment modalities that may not be found at most free-standing children' hospitals. Yet, our environment of family centered care is fostered by very active advisory groups of parents, patients, and referring physicians. As an academic teaching facility, UI Children's Hospital is preparing medical and health care leaders for the future.
Pediatrics residents at UI Hospitals and Clinics are similar in many characteristics to their national peers in educational background, gender distribution, career choices, and subsequent training experiences after residency training. However, our residents distinguish themselves by their high sense of responsibility and dedication to their patients, their superb efforts as teachers of medical students and others, and by their selection for national recognition and awards. Our facilities, equipment, and support staff are unsurpassed.
We are organized into 16 divisions that span general pediatrics and all of the subspecialty areas. The interfaces of pediatrics with obstetrics, internal medicine, family practice, radiology, and other disciplines are collegial and mutually assistive. We share management of several patients with surgeons. In such a setting, residents learn appropriate professional interrelationships.
Our clinical practice serves the general pediatric health care needs of the local community and the subspecialty needs of the region. Patients are referred from across the nation for certain specialized pediatric treatments and services, such as bone marrow transplantation, pediatric otolaryngology, neurosurgery and orthopedics. In addition, we conduct clinics in other cities and towns throughout Iowa. Our patients represent all pediatric age groups and all socioeconomic strata, and they present with virtually all acute and chronic conditions.
The Department of Pediatrics of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa is recognized nationally for excellence in each of its endeavors: teaching, clinical service, and research related to childhood diseases.
The pediatrics faculty is among the nation's best trained and most successful, as reflected in our authorship of texts in the discipline and of reports of basic and clinical research in leading journals, receipt of research funds and training grants, election to leadership positions in pediatrics, and receipt of national and international recognition for achievements.
All of these factors led to our ranking in the top 20 Departments of Pediatrics in the country, and a top 20 Children’s Hospital. In 2006, we ranked eighth in total NIH funding for research among all departments of pediatrics in public schools of medicine. In 2007, we ranked tenth out of 211 residency training programs with the American Board of Pediatrics.
The faculty serves as the staff physicians for children cared for at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital and as the mentors for residents and fellows in pediatric training programs. More than 130 pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, child psychologists, and doctoral level scientists constitute the full-time pediatrics faculty. In addition, many pediatricians in private community practices throughout the state hold clinical faculty appointments and participate in teaching residents and fellows as well as medical students.
Faculty expertise is applied daily to resident and fellow education and to patient care. Measures of treatment outcomes of our patients and of our residents' and fellows' successes in board certification examinations, acceptance into further training programs and professional employment, and acclaim for excellence in their pursuits by national awards committees all attest to our effectiveness as clinicians and teachers.
The educational philosophy that drives our residency training program is that we must prepare our trainees for a life-long career of self-education and dedication to the practice of pediatrics at the forefront of the specialty as it advances. We seek to provide each resident with a sufficiently broad experience that he or she can choose wisely among all the pediatric options to pursue a career in the general practice of pediatrics, a subspecialty service career, or an academic career.
We provide an education in the exploding molecular understanding of pediatric diseases, the critical evaluation of new information, and in the complex interactions of medicine with law, government, religion, and society, as well as instruction in the current diagnosis and treatment of disease. Residencies nationwide are adapting to the goal to evaluate resident performance in a mode that determines competence in a variety of areas.
We are in the process of transitioning to such a model and are creating various tools to demonstrate that the training received at UI Children’s Hospital enables residents to attain their goal of being competent, compassionate and caring pediatricians. Our residents complete our training program with a confidence in their knowledge and abilities, an awareness of where pediatrics is now and where it is going, and the tools to participate fully in its exciting future.
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Stacy McConkey, MD
Director, Pediatric Residency Training Program
Vice Chair for Education
Clinical Associate Professor
George Phillips, MD
Associate Program Director,
Clinical Associate Professor
Amy Stier, MD
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