University of Iowa Health Care is a fully integrated academic medical center, uniting the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center, and UI Physicians, the largest multispecialty group practice in Iowa. As the state’s premier academic medical center, UI Health Care provides high quality, patient-centered care, conducts groundbreaking biomedical research, and educates the scientists and health care providers of the future.

UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital is Iowa’s only comprehensive children’s hospital, dedicated to meeting the health care needs of children and families since 1919. Services for children from birth to young adulthood range from promoting wellness to the care of general childhood illness, surgery, traumatic injuries, life-threatening and chronic illnesses, and developmental disabilities. As part of an academic medical center, Stead Family Children’s Hospital performs groundbreaking research to help solve the mysteries of childhood diseases while training the next generation of health care professionals.

The Iowa City VA Health Care System improves the health of the men and women who so proudly served our nation. Services are available to more than 184,000 veterans living in 50 counties in eastern lowa, western Illinois, and northern Missouri.

Located adjacent to the UI Health Care Medical Center campus, the VA Medical Center serves patients in its urology clinic three days per week and OR cases the other two days. Residents appreciate the autonomy at the VA Medical Center, with PGY3 residents serving as junior residents and PGY5 residents as chiefs.

Mercy Medical Center North Iowa is a private facility that has served a UI Urology residency rotation site for more than 30 years. The clinic is a physician-owned corporation with more than 30 physicians and 70 staff.

The rotation in Mason City gives PGY4 residents an opportunity to participate in a private practice setting. Residents gain experience in all aspects of urologic surgery, including ESWL and transurethral procedures, and open and laparoscopic cases.