Program Director Welcome

Program Director's Note

Thank you for your interest in MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center and the MercyOne Family Medicine Residency Program. The MercyOne Family Medicine Residency Program has been in existence since 1997 with over 175 graduates. Our focus at the residency is to provide the residents with the optimum mix of clinical experience, faculty supervision, didactic courses, and procedural training to become a successful family physician.

MercyOne Des Moines boasts a rich clinical experience, including one of the busiest OB centers. We are a Level II Trauma and tertiary care center, with an Emergency Department that sees an average of 100 patients a day. Our residents also have an exceptional Pediatric experience and run the pediatric inpatient service under the supervision of the pediatric hospitalist. In addition, MercyOne Des Moines performs the most cardiac catheter procedures in the state of Iowa.

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center partnered with Primary Health Care, Inc. in 2013, to form the Iowa Medical Education Collaborative (IMEC) to enhance medical education and opportunities for the resident physicians. The residency outpatient clinic is part of this collaboration. The outpatient continuity clinic is a Primary Health Care, Inc., Federally Qualified Health Center. The clinic is comprised of a diverse patient population spanning all age groups, socio-economic classes, and different ethnic groups. The Family Medicine Center has on-staff Spanish interpreters, a behavioral health consultant, family support worker, as well as a clinical pharmacist. The clinic utilizes GE Centricity electronic health records.

Past graduates of Mercy Medical Center have taken positions across the US. Our graduate’s practice in a wide range of settings, from full spectrum, small town practice, hospitalist, ER urgent care, and outpatient medicine. Past graduates of MercyOne Des Moines have taken positions across the United States. Our graduates practice in a wide range of settings, from full spectrum, small-town practice, hospitalist, ER urgent care, and outpatient medicine. Several graduates have chosen to further their education by going to fellowships in geriatrics, community health, women’s health, advanced obstetrics training, clinical genetics, sports medicine, sleep medicine, integrative, and preventative medicine.

We believe the MercyOne Family Medicine Residency Program offers a superior opportunity to master family medicine and succeed in your future medical endeavors. Please contact us if you have further questions.

Come join us!
Dean Moews, MD
Program Director Family Medicine and Rural Family Medicine Residencies

Residency Brochure

For more information contact Jude Enos, Residency Coordinator
jenos@mercydesmoines.org
515-643-2682

In addition to an unsurpassed educational experience, we provide attractive stipends, complimentary meals, a housing allowance, personal digital assistance and several references.
Dean W. Moews, M.D.