The UI’s Mobile Clinic has received a $15,000 grant from the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care Community Initiative, its leaders learned Feb. 1.

The Mobile Clinic is run by UI medical and other health professions students and provides health screenings and other basic services to underserved populations in and around Iowa City. The Iowa Foundation for Medical Care Community Initiative is the charitable giving arm of the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care and works to support innovative projects aimed at improving health and social well-being. (more…)

Noteservice, the student organization that traditionally has produced lecture note transcriptions of first- and second-year medical courses, has completed a transition to streaming videos of the lectures. As of this semester, subscription fees are out and free access to all the recorded lectures is in.

Resolved, too, are technical problems that hampered the service last semester, preventing Noteservice from recording some lectures that otherwise would have been available online. So far this semester the system is running smoothly and nearly all the course lectures are available for students to view and, in the case of Human Organ Systems, download. (more…)

Harvey is locked up in a room by himself, but most everything else in the UI Carver College of Medicine’s new Simulation Center is out on the shelves and ready to use.

The center, in space previously occupied by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences’ Information Commons, opened in early January. It boasts numerous simulators for teaching resuscitation, physical exam and procedural skills and is staffed whenever the Hardin Library is open.

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This spring OSAC, the UI Carver College of Medicine’s Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum, will launch an improved process for faculty members wishing to register as small group facilitators for first- and second-year medical students enrolled in any of the four Foundations of Clinical Practice courses or the Healthcare Ethics, Law and Policy course. In March, OSAC will unveil a Web-based system to replace its traditional paper- and campus mail-based process for recruiting faculty members. (more…)