The Graduate Medical Education recognized multiple University of Iowa clinicians and professors with institutional awards, based on endorsements from residents and fellows.

Erin Renfrew, an M4 in the UI Carver College of Medicine, recently received the 2018 Excellence in Public Health Award, sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, recognizing her passion for caring for the underserved.

Eight years ago, through some innovative thinking on the part of UI Carver College of Medicine staff, the idea of producing a podcast with topics to entertain and inspire current and prospective medical students was born.

Using health insurance data involving more than 1 million cases nationally, UI researchers found that many patients with knee osteoarthritis continued to receive either corticosteroid or hyaluronic acid injections for pain relief, even after published clinical practice guidelines cited evidence questioning those injections’ effectiveness.

Over the next few weeks, graduating medical students will recite their medical oath at commencement ceremonies across the country. Most people might assume that this oath is universal; even people within the medical profession, who know there is some variation, might think the oaths are essentially similar in terms of the values expressed. But a new study by a University of Iowa bioethicist and medical student finds that not only are there many different oaths, but only a few ethical values are held in common among these oaths.

The average medical student at the Carver College of Medicine has an average of 65 encounters with a simulated patient over the course of four years, preparing them for patient care. As graduation nears, take a look at the valuable role of simulated patients in medical education.

University of Iowa research indicates newly identified stem cells may hold key to regenerative therapies for lung disease.

Each year, UI Carver College of Medicine physicians travel outside the United States to provide care in a host of educational and clinical settings, and in the past several years, more of their students and trainees are joining them.

University of Iowa Health Care leaders announced April 3 that the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science will receive a $21 million renewal of a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.

Mohammed Milhem, MBBS, will receive this year’s coveted Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award given by the international Arnold P. Gold Foundation to one faculty member and student at the nation’s select medical schools. This year’s student award winner for the UI Carver College of Medicine is senior Aaron Lacy.