Education
Family Medicine Residency
Why Mercy Family Medicine Residency?
- Eighteen residents total (6 per year) in an unopposed, community-based
university-affiliated program.
- Fully accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical
Education (ACGME). Mercy Family Medicine Residency received its most
recent accreditation from the Residency Review Committee in 2005
for 5 years.
- A
thirty-three year history of training family physicians for rural practice.
- A strong support network to help with the transition to residency.
- We teach and provide comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous
family-centered care.
- We teach through examples, intellectual curiosity, empathy, collaboration,
self-directed learning, and a balanced approach to work, family,
and self.
- We support one another in our efforts to make contributions in
the areas of scholarship, community service, and leadership.
- Faculty members with added training in geriatrics, palliative
care, education methods, and faculty development.
- Opportunities for procedural training in colposcopy, stress testing,
ultrasound, colonoscopy, lesion removal, OB ultrasound, EGD,
casting, cryosurgery, and LEEP.
- A community where family medicine represents the largest medical
specialty.
- Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa was named one of the nation’s
100 Top Hospitals, five years in a row, achieving excellence in teaching,
quality of care, efficiency of operations, and sustainability of
overall performance.
- Fully integrated electronic medical record with clinic and hospital.
- State-of-the-art hospital and a diverse medical
specialty staff.
- Responsibility for direct and primary patient care with close
faculty back up and supervision.
- Significant elective time, which enables residents to tailor their
training for future practice goals.
- Opportunity for an international medicine experience.
- Success on ABFM Certification Exam
- Low cost of living, friendly people, and four beautiful seasons.
