Office of Statewide Clinical Education Programs

  • Visiting Professor Program

    In June 2011, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine completed its thirty-eighth year of visiting professor activities. The Visiting Professor Program is an important source of educational support in the community-based settings where family medicine residents, medical students, physician assistant students, and clinical pharmacy students train.

    As visiting teachers, College of Medicine faculty present teaching conferences and participate in other educational activities at community-based residency programs. Faculty visits serve two purposes. They contribute to the basic training of family medicine residents and health professions students, and they provide a source of continuing medical education for the faculty and other physicians in the geographic regions where the residency programs are located.

    Activities Summary

    A summary of visiting professor activities for 2010-11 is shown below. Carver College of Medicine faculty and University Hospitals' house staff contributed 110 teaching days to the Visiting Professor Program.

    Sixty-four (64) individuals made teaching visits from 13 College of Medicine departments. Instruction occurred at eight residency programs sites involving 12 University-affiliated teaching hospitals.

    Individual Faculty Participants 2010-2011

    CCOM Faculty Participants   62
      Senior Staff  54  
      House Staff    6  
      Administrative Staff    2

     

    College of Public Health Participants   2

    Affiliated Training Site VPP Activity 2010-2011

    Broadlawns (Des Moines) 36 (6*) 
    Cedar Rapids 12        
    Davenport 12        
    Des Moines Consurtium (DMAMEC) 2         
    Des Moines VA 3        
    Iowa Lutheran (Des Moines) 11         
    Mason City 12        
    Sioux City 10        
    Waterloo 12         
    Total   110 (6*) 

    *Figures in parentheses represent visits by senior residents serving as faculty