Departmental Education

  1. Departmental education every Tuesday morning including Grand Rounds featuring speakers from within the department and invited guests from other medical institutions and Morbidity and Morality (M&M) conference, where cases from the preceding month are presented and discussed by the department.
  2. Didactics alternate between Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Core faculty and fellows cover various URPS topics. Research conferences, didactics, and cases conferences are rotated throughout the didactic schedule.
  3. Journal clubs are held monthly, usually taking place at a faculty home.

Research Opportunities

Research time in all Obstetrics and Gynecology fellowships is protected, as mandated by ACGME and ABOG. Fellows are paired with experienced mentors and expected to conduct research culminating in a thesis presented and defended prior to graduation.

Our faculty includes well-established researchers with well-funded research programs. Additionally, the University of Iowa has NIH funded facilities to support clinical and translational research in pelvic floor disorders.

Previous publications from fellowship theses:
 

Maetzold EC, Santillan DA, Kenne KA, Bradley CS, Ten Eyck P, Wendt L, Funk M, Kowalski JT. Urinary Biomarkers and Overactive Bladder Symptoms Before and After Prolapse Surgery. Urogynecology (Phila). 2023 Feb 1;29(2):266-272. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000001316  PMID: 36735443.  

Mehr AA, Kreder KJ, Lutgendorf SK, Ten Eyck P, Greimann ES, Bradley CS. Daily symptom associations for urinary urgency and anxiety, depression and stress in women with overactive bladder. Int Urogynecol J. 2022 Apr;33(4):841-850. doi: 10.1007/s00192-021-05033-0  Epub 2021 Nov 29. PMID: 34842938; PMCID: PMC9039964.

Elmer-Lyon CG, Streit JA, Takacs EB, Ten Eyck PP, Bradley CS. Urinary tract infection and drug-resistant urinary tract infection after intradetrusor onabotulinumtoxinA injection versus sacral neuromodulation. Int Urogynecol J. 2020 May;31(5):871-879. doi: 10.1007/s00192-019-04007-7  Epub 2019 Jun 20. PMID: 31222571; PMCID: PMC6980323.

Kowalski JT, Goodheart MJ, Genadry R, Bhattarai A, Bradley CS. Alterations of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A Expression and Microvessel Density Associated With Polypropylene Vaginal Mesh. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2020 Jan/Feb;26(1):73-79. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000000593  PMID: 29683889.

Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship

The Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship also includes Chemotherapy Rounds where the focus is on reviewing all patients actively undergoing chemotherapy, including those on clinical trials. Fellows discuss options for initiating chemotherapy and alternative choices for patients failing current regimens.  

Gynecologic Oncology Tumor Board

Gynecologic Oncology Tumor Board is held once a week.  It is a multidisciplinary conference run by the fellows, where clinical scenarios and pathology slides are presented and reviewed, and treatment options discussed and finalized by the faculty.

University Lectures

Fellows are encouraged to attend various University and College of Medicine lectures, including departmental grand rounds and invited speakers.