With recent approval from the UI Provost’s office, the Carver College of Medicine now offers a certificate in medical education. Available to College faculty and professional staff, as well as UI resident physicians and fellows, the certificate program gives interested individuals a new way to enhance their scholarship and skills in teaching, curriculum design and educational assessment.

The College also offers a master’s degree in medical education and a Teaching Scholars Program for faculty. The new certificate is different from the master’s program because it requires 12 semester hours of credit, compared to the 30 hours needed to complete the master’s program, and does not involve a portfolio project. The Teaching Scholars Program, established in 1999, focuses primarily on preparing faculty members to disseminate advanced knowledge of teaching and curriculum among their colleagues. (more…)

The white coat symbolizes the physician’s twin covenants with compassion and science. At the UI Carver College of Medicine, as at most other U.S. medical schools, students receive their first white coat in a ceremony that conveys to them their role in carrying on what the Arnold P. Gold Foundation calls the “noble tradition of doctoring.”

Adam Case, a student in the UI’s Medical Scientist Training Program, got his white coat four years ago, but it’s not white anymore. First he had it embroidered not with his name, as do most students and physicians, but with the motto, “I LIKE YOU.” Then he let a group of kids in a pediatric cancer clinic tie-dye it.

“I told them to dye it in a way that they would love to see a doctor,” Case said. (more…)

The DVIP Bench Press, held March 26 in the MERF atrium, netted bragging rights for the winners and a whopping $3,200-plus for Iowa City’s Domestic Violence Intervention Project. The annual event, now in its sixth year, is the McCowen learning community’s largest single fundraiser and benefits DVIP’s Youth Activities Fund.

The Department of Urology picked up the departmental award for the most pounds lifted in both the maximum-only and maximum-and-repetitions categories. Urology’s 32 participants lifted a maximum total of 4,795 pounds, or 150 pounds per lifter. The department’s maximum-and-repetitions total was 48,220 pounds. (more…)