Mary Beth Fasano, MD, visits with students in the Rubin Flocks Community, one of four UI Carver College of Medicine learning communities that offer students peer-to-peer education, leadership, and service-learning activities.
Changing Medicine
through Education
The practice of modern medicine is constantly evolving, its best practitioners relying on a complex combination of science, technology, and humanism to provide the best patient care.
University of Iowa Health Care and the UI Carver College of Medicine prepare health care professionals to master the rapidly growing bodies of scientific knowledge and changing technology, and to focus first and foremost on understanding and responding to each patient’s individual needs.
Recent decades have brought great advances in the amount of information that is available about human health. Health professions students at The University of Iowa learn to stay abreast of this knowledge by becoming life-long learners. Their training teaches them to employ information technology, integrate and manage emerging knowledge, and apply it to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
UI medical students may also choose to combine their medical training with studies in law, public health, business administration, or chemistry to earn dual professional degrees. The 32-year-old Medical Scientist Training Program provides training for both the MD and PhD degrees in an environment that integrates graduate research training with clinical studies. UI students benefit from graduate training programs that allow them to investigate several disciplines, including biomedical and basic sciences, before affiliating with a specific degree program.
As Iowa’s only comprehensive academic medical center, UI Health Care is at the forefront of education across the spectrum of health professions. The UI Carver College of Medicine trains physicians, physician assistants, physical therapists, and laboratory technicians, while UI Hospitals and Clinics conducts accredited programs for radiologic technologists, emergency medicine technicians, and paramedics. Together with students in the colleges of Dentistry, Nursing, and Pharmacy, all receive clinical training at UI Hospitals and Clinics.