Health Professionals

Our Patient Referral Center offers a one-contact solution for physicians to refer their patients for care at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital. The center can also facilitate hospital transfers and consultations with specialists in our facility.

UI Hospitals & Clinics faculty and staff conduct clinical trials and research studies in need of qualified participants. As an institution, we believe that bench research makes a difference in bedside medicine. We invite your inquiries concerning eligibility of patients for our clinical trials.

Each of our health sciences colleges offers continuing education opportunities. In addition, UI Health Care takes a leadership role in statewide clinical education programs.

As part of the University of Iowa, one of the state's largest employers, UI Hospitals & Clinics and the Carver College of Medicine offer rewarding career opportunities in a variety of fields. Job listings and employment applications begin at Jobs@UIowa and at the Nursing Opportunities sites.

UI Health Care researchers actively participate in research projects with colleagues throughout the world. Many of the activities of our researchers are coordinated through the services of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science.

You'll find links to residency program descriptions, faculty listings and research activities for each of our academic departments.

Professional nurses and prospective nurses will find helpful information on employment opportunities, our Nursing Clinical Education Center, as well as best practices surrounding Magnet recognition, shared governance, nursing informatics, quality and outcomes management.

We measure the quality of our care by how well we meet our patients' expectations and the highest national standards of safety and effectiveness. Several regional and national agencies are our partners in assuring that we deliver quality care to our patients.

The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation is dedicated to providing quality, level-appropriate simulation education to a variety of medical learners, advancing the science of simulation education through research and promoting patient safety through effective simulation education.