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Alongside fourth-year medical students nationwide, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine Class of 2024 learn where they’ll be going for residency training on Friday, March 15. Meet five of these outstanding students and learn more about how this year's Match Day stacked up for our next group of new physicians.
Hometown: Cedar Rapids, Iowa Undergrad: University of Iowa Applied to Match: Pediatrics
Hometown: Baldwin City, Kansas Undergrad: Morningside University Applied to Match: Family medicine (Jake) and general surgery (Joel)
Hometown: Cedar Rapids, Iowa Undergrad: University of Iowa Applied to Match: Internal Medicine
Hometown: Norwalk, Iowa Undergrad: Iowa State University Applied to Match: Emergency medicine
Researchers at the University of Iowa and Stanford University have developed a new tool that allows scientists to safely and accurately measure the effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on the activity of deep brain structures. The new technique, known as TMS-iEEG (intracranial electrocorticography), is providing hard data on how TMS works and may lead to improvements in the technology that is currently used to treat several neuropsychiatric conditions.
Bruno Policeni, MD, MBA, has been appointed chair and departmental executive officer of the Department of Radiology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, effective Feb. 26.
Emergency medicine physician Allie Kim (18MD, 21R) and anesthesiologist Sung Kim (15MD, 20F) share the stresses and joys of balancing starting their medical careers with starting their family.
The $3 million gift from Karen Simmonds and Mark Gilbert will support at least 27 aspiring physicians from Iowa over the next decade at the Carver College of Medicine.
From a young age, Nicole Fleege, MD’s family told her she could be anything she wanted to be. She oscillated between dreams of being a doctor, a lawyer, or a veterinarian. However, when it came to deciding whether she wanted a career in medicine, she was hesitant. “I took a detour from medicine because my dad got cancer when I was a junior in high school, and then passed away from lung cancer when I was a senior,” she explains. “So my first few years in college, I just wasn’t sure I wanted to do medicine.”