Three central Iowa hospitals are splitting four-million dollars in state tax dollars to help finance “residencies” — the final four-year stop for future doctors. These grants will be used to support 16 students who are studying to become psychiatrists. Dr. Larry Severidt of Broadlawns, the public hospital in Des Moines, says the goal is to get those students to stay in Iowa once they are licensed psychiatrists…
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There are 100 residency students at Unity Point Hospital in Des Moines and the hospital’s Dr. Douglas Dorner (DOR-ner) says psychiatry will become its seventh residency program…
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Students who go through these psychiatric residency programs at Iowa hospitals will not be required to take a job in Iowa once they’re finished, however. Governor Terry Branstad says no other state enforces that kind of requirement in its teaching hospitals.