Northeast Iowa Family Residency Program
Family Medicine Residency Program
Resident Rotations

Rotation Requirements

 
First Year
Orientation 4 Weeks
Internal Medicine 6 Weeks
General Surgery (Surg1) 4 Weeks
Obstetrics  4 Weeks
Behavioral Science, Nutrition, and Practice Management Longitudinal
Pediatrics-Inpatient 3 Weeks
Pediatrics-Outpatient 3 Weeks
Community Medicine 1 Week
Emergency Medicine 4 Weeks
Chemical Dependency 1 Week
Orthopedics 4 Weeks
Psychiatry 2 Weeks
FP Team 13 (Variable)
Vacation 3 Weeks
FPC 1 Week
Other/Electives 0
 
Second Year
Medical ICU 4 Weeks
Pediatrics-Inpatient 3 Weeks
Pediatrics-Outpatient 3 Weeks
General Surgery (Surg2) 4 Weeks
Rural 4 Weeks
Dermatology 2 Weeks
Orthopedics 3 Weeks
Sports Medicine 1 Week
Obstetrics 4 Weeks
Behavioral Science, Nutrition, and Practice Management Longitudinal
Emergency Medicine 4 Weeks
FP Team 13 (Variable)
Vacation 3 Weeks
Other/Electives 5 Weeks
 
Third Year
Chief Resident 9 (Variable)
Pediatrics-Outpatient 4 Weeks
FP Team 4 (Variable)
Urology 1 Week
Ear/Nose/Throat 1 Week
Ophthalmology 1 Week
Occupational Medicine 1 Week
Cardiology 4 Weeks
Vacation 3 Weeks
Gynecology (+Longitudinal FPC) 4 Week
Practice Management (+ Longitudinal FPC) Longitudinal
Behavioral Science and Nutrition Longitudinal
Other/Electives 21 Weeks

Whatever your interest may be, we encourage you to meet your specific educational needs through our flexible curriculum. You will grow through creative learning opportunities, as well as traditional clinical experience. Unique rotational opportunities allow you to prepare for a career as a broadly trained family physician or to prepare you for your practice in rural, urban ambulatory, urban inpatient, emergency medicine settings, or with research and international experiences.

Electives Offered

  • Allergy/Immunology
  • Anesthesiology
  • Away Preceptorship
  • Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Early Development Intervention
  • EKG
  • Endocrinology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Hematology/Oncology
  • Hospice/Palliatative Care
  • Infectious Disease/HIV
  • International Medicine
  • Managed Care
  • Nephrology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Nutrition
  • Pain Management
  • Parental rotation
  • Pharmacy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Podiatry
  • Procedures
  • Pulmonology
  • Radiation/Oncology
  • Radiology
  • Research
  • Rheumatology
  • Urgent Care
  • Wound Care
WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER
  • Individualized, comprehensive training
  • Unopposed, community-based program
  • Opportunities to master office procedures
  • In-house colonoscopy suite
  • Established Electronic Health Record (paperless office)
  • High-quality University of Iowa faculty
  • Compassionate, team-based care of our patients
  • "A great place to call home" with small town friendliness and
    big city opportunities