Student and New Graduate Information

Student Employment
Recent Graduates
Tuition Assistance
Rural Track Residency Program

Come for a job, stay for a career.

You’re about to make one of the most crucial decisions of your life—where to being your career. You want a hospital where you continue to learn and grow. You want a career at Pella Regional Health Center.

Student Employment

Whether you want to get a jump-start on your career or just need a little extra money for school, we offer a wide-range of student employment opportunities. As you work you gain valuable experience and learn from some of the best healthcare professionals in the state of Iowa. We also offer flexible schedules and a great Tuition Assistance Program for qualifying employees.

View a list of current Pella Regional employment opportunities.

Student Nurse Internships

As a nurse intern at Pella Regional you learn from the best.  We offer internships for Baccalaureate Nursing students.

We're on the cutting edge of new treatments and technology, and our interns are right in the middle of it all. You work one-on-one with an experienced nurse to gain additional experience in the clinical field.  

Our nursing internships provide a 6-10 week period that a student can work with an experience nurse to gain additional experience in the clinical field. Students are able to do this for credit or they can choose to apply for our paid program, which is offered in the winter and summer.

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Recent Graduates

A great place to start, a great place to stay.

You’ve put in all the hard work, now it’s time to move on to the career you’ve always wanted. We're always looking for top talent in any field or specialty, including:

  • Nursing
  • Pharmacy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Laboratory
  • Radiology
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Health Information Technology
  • Radiation Oncology

We partner our new nursing graduates with an established registered nurse in our preceptor program.

From our comprehensive orientation to our wide range of benefits we pride ourselves on keeping our employees happy. Once you start at Pella Regional, you'll want to stay at Pella Regional.

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Tuition Assistance

If you want to learn, we want to help!

General Tuition Reimbursement Plan

This program is available for approved coursework and degrees relating to your present career path. Pella Regional reimburses tuition and required fees not paid for by other sources.

  • The plan reimburses 100 percent of up to $1800 in tuition and fees each year for full-time and part-time employees. 
  • You must remain employed at Pella Regional for one year after course completion to avoid payback provisions.
  • Classes must be approved in advance. 
  • You must be in an eligible status for 90 days before classes begin.

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Rural Track Residency Program

The fundamental purpose of the Family Practice Rural Track Program in Pella is to educate physicians to practice in rural communities. The program is a cooperative venture between The University of Iowa Health Care and Pella Regional Health Center. The Pella Rural Track Residency admits graduated medical students and provides them with the opportunity to learn the skills, knowledge, and values necessary to be an excellent family physician practicing in a rural community.

Dr. Craig Wittenberg serves as on the on-site director of the rural program. Dr. Wittenberg and colleagues of the Pella Medical Clinic as well as staff physicians at the Pella Regional Health Center precept the rural track residents. The Pella Medical Clinic consists of family physicians, internal medicine physicians, gynecologist, and general surgeon. The clinic is supported through Pella Regional Health Center with state of the art services including an excellent medical imaging department, laboratory services, and specialty clinic with visiting physicians from medicine and surgical subspecialties.

Pella residents undertake a modified version of the Iowa City program's first-year curriculum. The Pella curriculum focuses on providing Pella residents with a firm grounding in the essential clinical skills of the major disciplines of clinical medicine. The Pella residents take advanced rotations in the first year to minimize the need to return to Iowa City during the second and third years of training. Once in Pella, residents participate in a curriculum designed to train physicians in the particular skills necessary for successful rural practice. This is accomplished by a mixture of block rotations, longitudinal experiences, and an intensive and focused clinical practice in the Pella Family Practice Clinic. The clinical practice is based in the offices of Pella Family Practice, a thriving family practice with offices on the campus of Pella Regional Health Center. Most of the specialist physicians in Pella have their offices at the same location, thus providing an excellent concentration of clinical and educational resources.

Click here to read more about the Rural Track Residency Program from the University of Iowa

First Year Rotations (Iowa City)

Family Practice Curriculum Block -- 1 month
Family Practice Inpatient -- 2 months
Behavioral Medicine -- 1 month
Cardiology Inpatient-- 1 month
Intensive Care -- 1 month
Pediatric Outpatient Clinic -- 1 month
Pediatric Intermediate Care Nursery -- 1 month
Pediatric Developmental & Behavioral Clinics -- 1 month
Pediatric Inpatient-- 1 month
Ophthalmology - 2 weeks
Surgery -- 1 month
Rheumatology - 2 weeks

Second Year Rotations (Pella)

Pella Medical Clinic -- 1 month
Emergency Medicine -- 1 month
Family Medicine & Surgical Specialties -- 2 months
Family Medicine & Internal Medicine Specialties -- 1 month
General Internal Medicine Inpatient -- 2 months
Gynecology -- 1 month
Obstetrics -- 3 months
Orthopedics -- 1 month

Third Year Rotations (Pella)

Pella Medical Clinic -- 1 month
Family Medicine & Internal Medicine Specialties -- 1 month
General Internal Medicine -- 1 month
General Surgery -- 2 months
Gynecology -- 1 month
Orthopedics & Sports Medicine -- 1 month
Radiology -- 1 month
Electives -- 4 months

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