The UI Carver College of Medicine and the College’s Writing Program will host “The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine,” April 29-May 1 at the UI.

The conference will feature presentations by physicians, writers, and scholars from across the nation exploring the links between creative writing and medicine. The program also includes skill-building sessions on writing, editing and publishing, a poster session and book fair, attendees’ readings, and a tour of the John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Library for Health Sciences.

This is the third year the College has hosted “The Examined Life,” and the conference has grown in terms of its scope and content, noted Margaret LeMay-Lewis, director of the College’s Writing Program. “We are pleased that the program will once again bring faculty, staff, and students from institutions nationwide as well as from different parts of the University of Iowa together at the Carver College of Medicine for an interdisciplinary dialogue,” she said. (more…)

Faculty, staff, and medical residents were honored April 4 during the 107th annual “Frolics,” an evening of music and comedy performed by each medical student class.

Each year, students present Teacher of the Year, Resident of the Year, and Outstanding Faculty/Staff Contribution to the Student Body awards to individuals who exemplify the best in teaching and commitment to medical education.

This year’s event also included the first Ben Pardini Interdisciplinary Teaching Award in honor of the late Benet Pardini, PhD, MPAS, the former faculty director of the Flocks learning community who died in October 2008. (more…)

Twenty-nine UI Carver College of Medicine students received awards at the All-Communities Banquet April 7.

Each learning community selected five recipients for Leadership Awards, given to students for their roles within their learning communities – serving on committees, participating in service projects, and mentoring and tutoring fellow students, for example.

Eleven students received Carver College of Medicine Student Government Awards for their demonstrated excellence in service and leadership. (more…)