University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

The University of Iowa Family Medicine-Psychiatry Residency is a five-year combined ACGME program producing dually board-eligible physicians who can practice as both family physicians and psychiatrists, with 30 months dedicated to each specialty and a dedicated program-specific continuity clinic staffed by combined-trained faculty. As the region's tertiary referral center for portions of three states, the program offers high-acuity psychiatric and medical complexity alongside routine primary care, with structured longitudinal experiences including a senior-year outpatient psychiatry continuity block split between UI Health Care and VA clinics and dedicated psychotherapy supervision. Scholarly activity is expected (a required QI project) but not mandated as formal research, though residents have access to departmental research infrastructure and fellowship pathways in addiction medicine, geriatrics, child/adolescent psychiatry, and other combined-relevant areas. The program values residents committed to integrated mind-body care who can function comfortably as psychiatric consultants in medical settings and vice versa, evidenced by explicit output into consultation-liaison psychiatry, addiction medicine, academia, and mixed private practice.