Teaching

Residents attend the conferences that are associated with their current rotations/clinical responsibilities. If time, and clinical responsibilities permit, there is some flexibility for attending conferences cross-disciplines.

Internal Medicine Conferences

• Grand Rounds –special weekly presentation by physicians from the University of Iowa, and nationally and internationally known clinical and research professors. (View poster)
• Morning Report – a conference led by the chief residents, with case presentations from internal medicine residents, attended by faculty, residents, and medical students alike.
• Core curriculum conference – twice weekly lecture focused on key clinical learning points (View upcoming conference)
• Numerous departmental conferences. (This Week's Schedule)
• Ambulatory block conference – weekly two hour learning activity for those in ambulatory outpatient rotations (not the scheduled continuity of care clinic)
• Morbidity and Mortality Conference – monthly interactive conference devoted to learning from difficulties encountered during a case, with a focus on residents fully developing the six ACGME competencies.
• Clinical Pathological Conference – monthly activity devoted to analysis of a case resulting in death, drawing on data from clinical course, with teaching from the pathology department regarding the post-mortem findings
• Subspecialty Conferences - All divisions (View listing)
• Board Review/Preparation Conference - available each year from February through June

Psychiatry Conferences:

• Grand Rounds - University of Iowa faculty or well known speakers from around the country present clinical updates on various topics, with University of Iowa faculty presenting a particular patient who is interviewed during the round.
• Chairman’s Rounds - Each week a different resident presents a detailed case history to our chairman, Dr. Robert Robinson. After the history presentation, the patient is invited to the seminar and interviewed by Dr Robinson. After the patient leaves, Dr. Robinson leads a discussion using the Socratic method, during which each resident is asked to comment on some aspect of the case.
• Research Rounds - distinguished visiting scientists, clinical researchers, and faculty members from the Department of Psychiatry are invited to present their current research or topics that are of special interest
• Psychopharmacology - psychopharmacologists provide up-to-date information about currently available and soon-to-be-available medications. General principles of pharmacologic management are emphasized. Drugs marketed within the last year are given special attention. The lectures review neurochemistry, efficacy, side effects, contraindications, and long term effects of various classes of drugs.
• General hospital psychiatry - faculty members present introductory material on the psychopathology of major psychiatric disorders encountered in inpatient services, including schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorder, somatoform disorder, eating disorders, and personality disorders. The series also provides an introduction to the mental status examination, the handling of psychiatric emergencies, psychological testing, involuntary commitment procedures, and utilization review
• Psychotherapy lecture - During this weekly lecture, the history of psychotherapy, interview methods, and types of psychotherapy are presented. Topics in this series include discussion on Freud, the Neofreudians, Mahler, Erikson, cognitive behavioral therapy, individual therapy, supportive therapy, brief therapy, marital and family therapies, child and adolescent therapies, hypnosis, and group therapy
• Ethics - 3-year rotating course covering ethical problems in the care of mentally ill patients and the psychiatrist's role within diverse communities. Includes assigned readings and case discussion. Topics include: boundary issues, decision-making capacity, paternalism, "cosmetic" psychopharmacology, respect for religious beliefs, involuntary treatment, informed consent, labeling through diagnosis, genetic determinism, suicide, confidentiality, impaired physicians, and economic/access to care issues
• Perspectives of Psychiatry/Neuropsychiatry - Annual four lecture series presented by Dr. Robinson, the department chair, examining the philosophical limitations in understanding psychiatry. Dr. Robinson focuses on four perspectives from which one can view psychiatry: the disease perspective, the behavioral perspective, the dimensional perspective, and the life-story perspective. He examines the implicit assumptions and functional utility of each approach
• Inpatient and Outpatient Morning Report - Each week a different resident briefly presents a case to the group. With a faculty member as a facilitator, the residents discuss any unique or particularly challenging aspects of the case
• Journal Club - a senior resident presents a current journal article for review and discussion. With a faculty member as a facilitator, the methods and design of the study, as well as the results and conclusions are discussed
• Board review course - course of 4-6 dinner lectures covering general topics in preparation for psychiatry written boards.

Department of Internal Medicine Residency Webpage

Department of Psychiatry Residency Webpage