Program Goal
Our APP residents will expand their medical knowledge, master the core competencies and develop the skills needed to provide comprehensive care in an outpatient clinic setting to individuals and families of all ages and walks of life.
The APP resident will receive in-depth training in the following areas:
General Family Medicine Clinic
Working alongside Family Medicine faculty and residents in a well-established primary care clinic, our APP resident will expand their diagnostic skills while evaluating and treating challenging patients in the general family medicine clinic.
Procedure Clinic
The APP resident will work one-on-one with faculty physicians learning many common procedures including skin biopsy, toenail removal, cyst excision, skin tag removal, endometrial biopsy, IUD insertion/removal and Nexplanon insertion/removal.
Psychiatry Rotation
APP residents will spend 10 days (1 day per week) alongside psychiatry faculty and residents learning how to perform and interpret a comprehensive psychiatric assessment and gaining skills in medication management.
Geriatrics
As a member of a multi-disciplinary team APP residents will evaluate community living elderly patients with the goal of enhancing health and function.
Musculoskeletal Clinic
APP residents will expand musculoskeletal history and physical exam skills and learn common joint injections with the Sports Medicine/Family Medicine faculty.
Inpatient Service
Managing patients who become acutely ill and require hospitalization, APP residents will work with the Family Medicine inpatient team managing hospitalized patients at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. During this rotation, APP residents will develop clinical judgment about when patients require hospitalization.
Electives
Electives vary in length between 2-4 weeks long, depending on the rotation. Options include:
- Palliative Care - 4 weeks
- Sports Medicine - 2 weeks
- Wilderness Medicine - 4 weeks
- Dermatology - 2 weeks
- Endrocrinolgy - 2 weeks
- Cardiology - 2 weeks
- Emergency Medicine - 2 weeks
- Other electives may be possible depending on resident interest and availability of appropriate learning environment.
Instructional practices
The APP residents will:
- Identify gaps in their knowledge or experiences and shape a plan for filling these gaps through formal experiences and self-directed learning.
- Integrate cost-effective medical decision making to complement patient care goals.
- Utilize strategies to improve clinical efficiency and patient safety by using the Electronic Medical Record.
Resources
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is part of the University of Iowa Libraries with many resources for students and trainees in the health sciences. All house staff have access to the UI Hardin Medical Library through the library’s world-wide-web page or through the Graduate Medical Education’s intranet. The library features e-resources that include on-line journals, periodicals, databases, special medical guides and a variety of search and retrieval systems including PubMed.
UI Hardin Library has specially trained librarians who assist with location of materials and train house staff on effective methods of information searches (e.g., effective methods of searching PubMed).
VisualDX
VisualDx visual diagnostic decision support system is also available through the Hardin Library. VisualDx gives general practitioners the ability to build a differential diagnosis that provides specialist information for more than 900 diseases and offers more than 16,000 related images.
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