ER Residency Program
Doctors teaching doctors - tomorrow's ER doctors are at St. Luke's today.
St. Luke's Hospital and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics serve as a partnership to Iowa's only emergency medicine residency program. The program’s goal? To train highly skilled ER physicians and keep them in Iowa.
Before this joint partnership, residents had to leave the state if they wanted to be an ER doctor. Now, residents can stay in Iowa, receive outstanding training, while providing high quality healthcare to our communities.
"We were selected based on our tenured staff's experience in treating critical patients, our physicians' commitment to education and the fact that we treat more patients than any other community hospital in the area," said Dr. Larry Helvey, St. Luke's Emergency Department. "This residency program strengthens Iowa's ability to recruit specialists in emergency medicine for which there is a great demand."
