REVENUE

The appropriation for the Primary Care Initiative (PCI) for FY 2025 is $624,374, the same as FY 2024. The Carver College of Medicine Office of Statewide Clinical Education Programs (OSCEP) operates four continuing programs with this appropriation. These initiatives fill important gaps in the state’s efforts to educate, retain and track health professionals.

 EXPENDITURES

Program allocations are as follows:

• Department of Family Medicine Faculty and Staff                      $245,243
• Regional Medical Education Centers Grant Program                 $166,600
• Iowa Health Professions Inventory                                              $ 78,490
• Rural Physician Support Program                                               $134,041

                                                                                                              TOTAL  $624,374

$245,243– Faculty and Staff Salaries and Benefits for UI Department of Family Medicine

Salary support is provided to the Department of Family Medicine.  This money is appropriated and designated by the legislature to provide ongoing support to the UI Family Medicine Department.

$166,600 – Regional Medical Education Center (RMEC) Grants

The Regional Medical Education Center (RMEC) Grants total $166,600. The RMECs are located at Davenport, Mason City, Sioux City and Waterloo, each receiving $41,650 from this fund. This funding supports the sites’ efforts to coordinate medical education of assigned UI Carver College of Medicine undergraduate medical students. This experience supports efforts to expose students to an experience in Iowa communities outside of an academic medical center. Additionally, these sites all support the education of physician assistant and pharmacy students as well as medical residents from the University of Iowa Health Care. This also includes some funding to support lodging for the students.

$78,490 – Iowa Health Professions Inventory, Salaries and Benefits

This funding is used to support the partial salary and benefits for staff working on the Iowa Health Professions Inventory. These two individuals work across health professions but focus primarily on the dentistry workforce, pharmacy workforce and nurse practitioner workforce. Supplemental funding is provided by the College of Dentistry and the College of Pharmacy.

$134,041 – Rural Physician Support Program, Salaries and Benefits, General Expenses

This funding supports the partial salary of two full-time staff and two part-time graduate students along with $8,256 in general expenses/travel. This funding supports staff working on strategies to enhance the recruitment of new residents to practice in Iowa through the creation and publication of the annual Opportunities Directory along with other strategies such as administrative contract reviews, presentations, and key data collections to understand resident location choices following completion of residency. The Opportunities Directory is provided to residents in Iowa within the family medicine, emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry as well as for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. The directory is limited to positions in Iowa. There are other strategies deployed by this team as well to enhance recruitment of physicians to practice in Iowa.