Welcome to Iowa, home to a leading academic medical center with a passion for nurturing the best pediatricians! A residency in the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics will give you the training, experience, and mentors to achieve your goals as a doctor.
We are confident you’ll see Iowa has what you are searching for in your training program: comprehensive evidence-based curriculum, broad clinical exposure, engaging teaching and mentorship, unparalleled research opportunities, and the opportunity to develop close and lasting relationships with your colleagues, all in our state-of-the-art Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
We’re lucky to have all this in the setting of a dynamic, inclusive, and safe city. Iowa City has the cultural, educational, social, and political opportunities of a much bigger city with the values, ambiance, and traffic of a cozy Midwestern town.
Match with us!
Many of our residents match from Midwest medical colleges, along with residents from national and international schools. Meet our grads.
Not sure what you want to do after residency? You’re in the right place!
We promise you the ideal balance of ambulatory, inpatient, and individualized experiences, tailored to the career that’s right for you. About half of our graduates go on to primary care pediatrics and about half match into choice fellowships.
My career goals have evolved every year since I started medical school. I have loved just about everything in pediatric medicine.
Discover what excites you
We promise you the ideal balance of ambulatory, inpatient, and individualized experiences, tailored to the career that’s right for you. About half of our graduates go on to primary care pediatrics and about half match into choice fellowships.
Our Children's Hospital
Facility dogs Nacho and Corrin welcome you to the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital. Our residents train in Iowa’s only comprehensive children’s hospital, providing world-class pediatric care that families trust — and kids deserve.
Level 11 is named after the university’s Dance Marathon – a 24-hour dance party raising more than $35 million for kids. The view is especially nice on football Saturdays when 70,000 fans wave to our patients. We are the home to the Iowa Wave, and that sentiment can be felt throughout our city every day of the year.
Ensuring your success: Our top priorities
• Collaborative residents, fellows, faculty, and health care professionals
• Innovative didactics and broad-based curricular initiatives
• Balanced and tailored clinical experiences
• Personalized mentorship with targeted feedback
Here you’ll have great clinical experiences with lots of flexibility in scheduling, and close relationships with your colleagues and supervisors. We are a community here, and you will be supported. Come wave with us!