Funds for the stipend may come from a National Research Service Award or the NIH Training Grant, the terms of which require the signing of a standard National Institutes of Health payback agreement. Other sources of stipends include the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Fellows paid from these sources may be assigned additional responsibilities for the teaching of medical students. Family health insurance coverage is provided to fellows and their families. The CDD has ample research equipment and space to support ongoing faculty research efforts and the training of new investigators.
Fellows spend part of their second year undertaking basic science or clinical research.
They may choose from a wide variety of research opportunities. While the faculty of the Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology assume the general supervision of research projects, fellows may choose mentors from other clinical or scientific disciplines within the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Training opportunities are available in either M.D. or Ph.D. laboratories. The third year will be used to advance research or clinical skills depending on the individual career goals of trainees. Several years of additional research training can be funded through our NIH Research Training Grant.