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.

Conferences

• Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow Conference: weekly didactics covering various lecture topics, book chapter review, journal club, flipped classroom and simulations.
• Ultrasound and Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy Conference: Comprised of lectures, presentations and case conferences supported by Continuing Medical Education (CME) on discussions of ultrasound findings, differential diagnoses, teratology, dysmorphology, prognoses, treatment options, and recommendations for appropriate further testing occur as a result of anomalies seen on the unit.
• Perinatal Conference with the NICU: Faculty and fellow pair from NICU and MFM will decide on a topic of interest to both groups to discuss.
• MFM Division Research in Progress Conference: attended by MFM faculty and fellows, includes presentations of ideas for research projects, updates of ongoing research projects within the division, research methods and possible research collaborations with investigators outside of the MFM division.
• Perinatal Management for women with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD): joint conference with ACDH program to review prenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care of pregnant women with congenital heart disease.
• HROB Clinic Conference: virtual multi-disciplinary clinical management conference with HROB nurse clinician.

Other Conferences:

• Genetics Clinical and Molecular Case Conference Review (Department of Pediatrics)
• OB/GYN Postgraduate Conference
• Annual Iowa Conference on Perinatal Medicine

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 program. Additionally, the University of Iowa has NIH funded facilities to support clinical and translational research. HRSA grant supports rural maternal health disparity research, focusing on preventing maternal death and severe illness.

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.