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Upcoming Events

PTRS Educational Summit

Save the Date!  Our 2026 PTRS Educational Summit is scheduled for Friday, September 18th. 

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DPT Reaffirmation Ceremony

In May, our DPT students will renew their commitment to the profession by professing an oath during a ceremony prior to leaving for their terminal clinical education experiences.

 

Alumni Newsletters

The alumni newsletters provide an opportunity for us to share many of the accomplishments of previous classmates, faculty, and staff from the UI Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences Community at Iowa.  These newsletters will go out annually to keep you informed of the new developments and future plans within the department.

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College of Medicine Events

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 5/28/2026

Thursday, May 28, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
General Hospital

CPC: Connecting the Clues to Systemic Amyloidosis
Jennifer Houser, MD, Dennis Firchau, MD (Pathology), and Hira Shaikh, MBBS

Skills for Educators Workshop: Medical Improv

Friday, May 29, 2026 8:30am to 11:30am
University of Iowa Health Care University Campus
This interactive workshop will explore how improvisational theatre principles can enhance clinical communication skills.

Mobile Clinic — CommUnity Food Pantry

Saturday, May 30, 2026 9:00am to 12:00pm
CommUnity Food Pantry
Student run free medical clinic

REDCap Basic Training

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 10:00am to 11:30am
Virtual

This is the first step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

• Building forms with proper field types and validation
• Assigning user permissions
• Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
• Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
• Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
• Creating and...

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Sara Mitchell promotional image

Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Program Thesis Defense Seminar: Sara Mitchell

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 11:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Sara Mitchell is a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. Her research has been conducted in Drs. Hanna Stevens and Rainbo Hultman laboratories.

If you are unable to attend in person, please consider showing your support and attending via Zoom. Please email britt-hokanson@uiowa.edu for the zoom link.