Community Benefits
Providing Learning Opportunities
Mercy - North Iowa is helping to prepare the future health care professionals by offering programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technicians, and professional staff.
Mercy Family Medicine Residency
The Mercy Family Medicine Residency provides a training program that is well integrated with the professional community. Dual goals for the program are to provide both quality patient care and quality resident education. The program combines the unique educational opportunities of a secondary referral hospital with the additional advantage of a formal affiliation agreement with the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for the educational opportunities of a large university tertiary care center.
Cardiology Fellowship Program
The Cardiology fellowship training program is integrated with Mercy - North Iowa and Mason City Clinic. Extensive clinical training is supported with experience in Mercy-North Iowa's cardiac medical stepdown unit, cardiovascular recovery unit, and cardiac catheterization laboratory as well as consulting and outpatient activities. Fellows will also participate in off-site rotations at Mercy Medical Center - Sioux City and Mercy Medical Center -Des Moines, which will include training in critical care, electro-physiology, echocardiography, and pediatric cardiology. Upon completion of the fellowship, the candidate will be qualified to perform diagnostic angiography, pacemaker implantation, TEE, transthoracic echocardiography and nuclear stress testing.
Pharmacist Internship
Pharmacists completing this residency program will be competent and confident providers of pharmaceutical care in multiple environments. They will be both responsible and accountable for achieving the best possible drug therapy outcomes for patients as members of the inter-disciplinary health care team. They will be skillful educators of patients, health care professionals and the community on medication related topics.
Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Mercy - North Iowa's Palliative Medicine Fellowship is one of only 30 fellowships available nationally. It was the first and only accredited palliative medicine fellowship in Iowa and is the only community hospital based accredited palliative medicine fellowship in the United States. Mercy recruits fellows nationally for a one-year training experience in Mason City.
Critically Ill Patient Internship
When faced with a critical illness, people want the best care for themselves or their loved ones. Nurses who are enrolled in the Critically Ill Patient Internship have the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills required to work in Critical Care Specialty areas, including the Critical Care Unit, Emergency Room, and the Cardiac Stepdown Unit to ensure that patients have the best care possible.
