University of Iowa (Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine)

FIRST AND SECOND YEARS : The first two years� curriculum helps students identify and develop the skills, knowledge, awareness and sensitivities that physicians will need in the future. This intertwining of knowledge, judgement, and intuition coupled with an abiding concern for one�s fellow human beings is the basis of medicine. A firstyear medical student at The University of Iowa will learn the factual and technical language of medicine, come to understand the structure and function of the body in health and disease and begin to apply this knowledge to clinical problems. The medical curriculum also seeks to orient medicine in the larger social context in which conflicting values, goals, economic motives and political forces wrestle to shape health care access and delivery. Beginning with the small (the molecule) and progressing to the large (organ systems), students learn about the normal structure and function of these systems and their components. Small discussion groups emphasize the selfeducation and teaching skills that are the basis of a successful medical career. Students have the opportunity to make clinical case presentations and creative research presentations, integrating the basic science gained in lecture and laboratory sessions with clinically relevant information. After completing the first year, many students choose to spend the summer working and learning in an Iowa community hospital or conducting medical research projects. In the second year, students continue basic science study, applying what they have learned about the body systems in order to understand how disease alters normal processes to produce signs and symptoms, the pattern of which we recognize as syndromes. FIRST YEAR COURSES : * Biochemistry * Gross Anatomy * Cell Biology * Medical Genetics * Foundations of Clinical Practice I * Medical Neuroscience * Principles of Medical Immunology * Human Organ Systems: * Structure and Function * Foundations of Clinical Practice II SECOND YEAR COURSES : * Medical Pharmacology * Principles of Infectious Diseases * General and Systemic Pathology * Foundations of Clinical Practice III * Foundations of Clinical Practice IV * Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics * Health Law CLINICAL YEARS The clinical courses at the University of Iowa College of Medicine take place during the last two years of the medical curriculum. In order to qualify for graduation with the M.D. degree, students must satisfactorily complete a total of 80 weeks of courses during the 2 clinical years: 68 weeks of required courses and 12 weeks of electives. Course distribution is 48 weeks in the first clinical year and at least 32 weeks in the second clinical year. The first clinical year begins with a week devoted to orientation and to clinical skills. Information about clinical courses, universal precautions, management of acute trauma, and patient communication skills are emphasized and students have the opportunity to practice basic procedures. These two years include six generalist core clerkships: family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, and community-based primary care. Each course includes a mix of inpatient and outpatient activities, introduces the student to a specific discipline (or to the practice of medicine in the community), and presents the opportunity to develop and practice clinical skills. Required subspecialty clerkships: anesthesia, dermatology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, psychiatry, radiology, urology, and concurrent courses in electrocardiography and laboratory medicine. Advanced clerkships: inpatient generalist ub-internships and critical care or emergency medicine. CLINICAL COURSES : * Community-Based Primary Care * Family Medicine * General Internal Medicine * Obstetrics and Gynecology * Pediatrics * Surgery * Neurology * Psychiatry * Subspecialty segment: anesthesia, dermatology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, urology, radiology, and electrocardiography. * Advanced clerkships: including inpatient generalist, subinternships, emergency or critical care experience.

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School name: University of Iowa (Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine)
Address: 200 CMAB
Zip & city: IA 52242 Iowa City
Phone: 319-335-6707
Web: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu

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