Fact Sheet


Personnel

Faculty Size

  • 102 faculty plus 75 community-based clinical faculty

Divisions - 17

Residents - 36 (plus a Chief Resident)
Fellows - 27

College of Medicine Class Size

  • Approximately 136 students/year in each of 4 years; 15-16 junior students in each 6-week clerkship rotation

Clinical Activity and Facilities

Pediatric Ambulatory Visits Available for Educational Purposes:

  • The Department of Pediatrics: 60,900
  • University Field Clinics throughout Iowa: 9,500/year
  • Community Pediatrics Practitioners' Venues:
    > 200,000/year

Beds Assigned to Pediatrics: 157

Admissions: 4,300

Average Daily Census of Pediatric Inpatients: 105

Academic Strength of Faculty

  • Sponsored funded research support received by the Department of Pediatrics for FY 07 - $23 million/year
  • Ranked 21st among all medical school departments of pediatrics in total research funds awarded by NIH in 2005

Community

  • Population of Iowa City/Coralville community: Approximately 75,000
  • Rank of Iowa City among all U.S. cities over 50,000 population in Percent with College Education: 1st at 60 percent
  • Rank of Iowa Among All States in 12th Grader's ACT and/or SAT Mean Scores: First or Second (perennially)

Iowa City: 'Best Of'

  • 4th Best Public Schools out of 334 (Expansion Management Magazine, 2004)
  • 3rd Best Metro for Livability out of 331 (Expansion Management Magazine, 2004)
  • 3rd Best Small Metro Area out of 168 (Forbes, 2004)
  • 5th Best Metro Area for Expanding a Business out of 329 (Expansion Management Magazine, 2004)

Utne Magazine ranked Iowa City eighth in its 1997 survey of "America's 10 Most Enlightened Towns".

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