Testimonials

What others say about our program ...

For more than 40 years, Broadlawns Medical Center has been an important partner with the University of Iowa in educating and training medical students, physician assistant students, resident physicians and other health professionals. The wide range of clinical experiences that Broadlawns can offer has helped us train three generations of health care providers in Iowa. Broadlawns is an outstanding resource for our state.

Roger Tracy
Assistant Dean/Director
Office of Statewide Clinical Education Programs
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

The transitional year “internship” training program at Broadlawns is superb.  It has produced many physicians who have gone on to become my very best residents in Anesthesiology, both at Iowa and Nebraska.  When residents come to my training program from their transitional year at Broadlawns, I know that they will have been exposed to superb hands-on teaching by physicians who not only teach medicine to them, but also ethics and cooperativeness.  Broadlawns is a superb teaching hospital.  My congratulations to their excellent faculty and medical staff.

John H. Tinker, M.D.
Professor and Chair
University of Nebraska
Department of Anesthesiology

And from the residents, themselves...

I was especially drawn to the Broadlawns Family Medicine Residency Program by the people of Broadlawns –the senior residents, staff physicians, residency support staff and the population of patients served here.  As residents we are given an appropriate level of autonomy, a large variety of interesting medical cases to manage, and we are overseen by intelligent staff physicians with a primary interest in education.  I have not been disappointed in my decision to train here and feel that I have been well-prepared for “real-world” primary care.  I look forward to working in underserved areas and using the skills I have acquired here.

Deborah Chisholm, M.D.

If we don’t try, we don’t do.  If we don’t do, then why are we here?  Broadlawns gives you the opportunity to excel in the mechanics of medicine as well as the didactics in a way that is singular to any other residency I researched.  You will not find any other residency that combines the support and concern from the attending as well as the seniors for your advancement in learning.

Matthew Sampson, M.D.

I chose Broadlawns Medical Center because it offered what I thought and still believe is the perfect balance between broad exposure to pathology and time with family.  The on-campus housing and at-home call are the perfect way to split time between your professional obligations to learning and your family.

Ellie Bishop, D.O.

I feel that Broadlawns offers a great combination of teaching and autonomy.  The residents are truly the “doctors” and we are given the responsibility that comes with that role, yet we always have our excellent staff at our side to provide quality teaching.  We are provided with an incredible amount of respect from our patients, nursing, ancillary staff, administration and our attending physicians because of the important role we provide at Broadlawns.

Steven Perkins, D.O.

Broadlawns offers me a chance to learn from people who truly want to teach medicine and who want to help the people who need it most.  I could not have chosen a better place to spend my residency years!

Matthew Otis, D.O.