UnityPoint Health-Des Moines announced that its new Emergency Medicine Residency Program has received full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The first class of six residents will begin the program in July 2024. The three-year program will include clinical education and experience in Central Iowa’s only Level 1 adult trauma center and tertiary referral center, Iowa Methodist Medical Center, and Iowa’s only Level 2 pediatric trauma center, Blank Children’s Hospital, where core rotations will be in the adult and pediatric emergency departments, the intensive care unit, Level 1 trauma surgery service and others. “By being a part of an established residency program, our residents will have the opportunity to build camaraderie with other residents, but at the same time not competing for procedures or patient encounters,” Dr. Nash Whitaker, emergency medicine residency program director, said in a prepared statement. This will be the second emergency medicine residency program in Iowa. Applications for the program will open in September.