Whole-Person Health Begins with You
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth’s focus on whole-person care will help you get the experience you need for a lifelong career in family medicine.
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Meet Our Current Medical Residents
Residency Curriculum
Our family medicine residency program curriculum includes rotations in a broad range of specialties. We focus on teaching procedures and incorporate disease prevention, health promotion, sports and recreational medicine, psychiatry and behavioral medicine, substance abuse, pediatric and adolescent health, and women's healthcare. We also provide a neonatal resuscitation course, advanced life support for obstetrics certification, advanced cardiac life support classes and fundamentals of critical care support certification courses.
- First-Year Rotations
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You’ll start your first-year rotation in our residency program with a comprehensive orientation program. From there, your medical residency takes off with one to three half days in clinic each week. Our curriculum is designed to challenge you so that at the end of year one, you find yourself well on the way to becoming a family physician.
The first-year rotations include:
- Family Medicine Introduction: 4 weeks, including clinic, call and lecture series on how to be a resident and what is expected of you
- Family Medicine Service: 8 weeks (2 four-week blocks)
- Pediatrics: 8 weeks (2 four-week blocks)
- Surgery: 4 weeks
- Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks
- Inpatient Cardiology: 4 weeks
- ICU/Pulmonary: 4 weeks
- Ear, Nose and Throat/Ophthalmology: 4 weeks
- Maternal Child Care: 8 weeks (2 four-week blocks)
- Gastroenterology: 4 weeks
- Second-Year Rotations
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As a second-year resident, you’ll build upon the knowledge you developed during your first year and your time in the Family Medicine Center will increase to two to four half-days per week.
The second-year rotations include:
- Dermatology: 4 weeks
- Family Medicine Service: 8 weeks (2 four-week blocks)
- Pediatrics: 4 weeks
- Inpatients Pediatrics (Shriner's Children's Hospital): 4 weeks
- Gynecology: 4 weeks
- Geriatrics/Community Medicine: 8 weeks
- Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks
- Orthopedics: 8 weeks
- Physical Medicine: 4 weeks
- Nephrology: 4 weeks
- Electives: 4 weeks
- Third-Year Rotations
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During your final year, you’ll polish your skills and focus on the subjects that will serve you best as a family physician. You will have three to five half-days in the Family Medicine Center.
Third-year rotations include:
- Family Medicine Service: 8 weeks (2 four-week blocks)
- Pediatrics: 4 weeks
- Endocrinology: 4 weeks
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Lurie Children's Hospital): 4 weeks
- Substance Abuse: 4 weeks
- Urology: 4 weeks
- Outpatient Cardiology: 4 weeks
- Practice Management: 4 weeks
- Electives: 16 weeks (4-week blocks)
- Daily Educational Opportunities and Lectures
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There are lectures Monday through Friday from 8 to 9 am and 12 to 1 pm. Here’s a look at the topics you can expect to cover:
- Behavioral health lecture with Dr. Cahill
- Board review
- Book club
- Diversity and inclusion lectures
- Faculty lectures
- Functional anatomy lectures
- Geriatrics lecture with Dr. Hunter-Smith
- Grand rounds
- Jeopardy
- Journal club
- Omm lectures
- Pediatrics with Dr. Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Phillips
- Pharmacy lectures
- Practice management lectures with Dr. Santilli
- Procedure workshops
- Specialty topics
- Team meetings
- Wellness lectures
- Community Outreach and Mission Trips
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The role of a family medicine doctor includes an understanding of social responsibility, and our program offers resident doctors opportunities to engage in community outreach and education, work with public health agencies and treat those who cannot afford healthcare. This includes joining forces with a local FQHC and a homeless shelter to provide healthcare to their patrons.
Our resident physicians also have the opportunity to participate in mission trips focused on providing medical care in severely impoverished regions of the world. Residents, faculty, staff and volunteers have traveled to Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama and El Salvador to care for tens of thousands of men, women and children in those countries’ underserved areas.
- Clerkships
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If you are a third-year medical student, you may be interested in our family medicine core clerkships. Our clerkships run for four, six, or eight weeks and include clinics, lectures, seminars, group discussions, home health care, hospice and meetings with faculty.
To be eligible for a clerkship, you must currently be enrolled in a United States LCME-accredited medical school and highly interested in pursuing a career in family medicine.
Family Medicine Sub 1 Elective
We rotate six medical students at a time in our clerkships, and in addition to these core clerkship slots, we offer M4 medical students the option of a Family Medicine Sub 1 elective. The elective consists of a four-week rotation in our hospital, inpatient rounding with a senior resident, and several outpatient clinics in our Family Medicine Center clinic.
The elective is available July through January based on interview scheduling.
- Curriculum Accreditation
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Our Family Medicine Residency Program curriculum meets all requirements of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), American Board of Family Medicine and American Osteopathic Association.
Interested in Applying? Here’s How
The UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange Family Medicine Residency Program accepts applications exclusively through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
Paper and/or email applications will not be accepted.
The ERAS application deadline is December 31, 2023.
- Resident Matching Program
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UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange participates in the following match:
The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
Our program's match code is: 3006120C0.
- Requirements for U.S. Applications
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- Dean’s letter
- School transcripts
- Three current reference letters
- United Sates Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) or Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX) scores. All components associated with USMLE 1 and 2 or COMLEX 1 and 2 must be passed prior to match list submission deadline. No minimum score is required, but numeric scores and number of attempts are considered.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification prior to starting program
- Personal statement
- Requirements for International Medical Graduate (IMG) Applications
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- U.S. citizen or current green card/ permanent visa holder, or currently licensed to practice medicine in the State of Illinois
- United Sates Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores — all components associated with USMLE 1 and 2 must be passed prior to MATCH submission deadline. No minimum score is required, but numeric scores and number of attempts are considered.
- Completion of six months clinical training (flexible/rotation/transitional or Fifth Pathway) in an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-approved hospital in the U.S. or Canada.
- Graduation from medical school within TWO years of application. If longer than two years, consideration will be given to those applicants who have been in active practice or residency in the past two years in an ACGME-approved program. If you have no formal program of medical education or cannot demonstrate active practice of medicine within the two years immediately preceding application for Illinois license, you must demonstrate professional capacity. Please see the Medical Practice Act of 1987 Section 9 (B) (4) and Section 1285.110b (3) of the Rule of the Illinois Dept of Professional and Financial Regulation. The information is available on the Illinois Dept of Financial and Professional Regulation website (www.idfpr.com).
- Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) eligible (CSA and English proficiency) prior to Match process.
- Dean's letter or equivalent
- School transcripts (translated where applicable)
- Three current reference letters
- Personal statement
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification prior to starting program
- Interviews
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Once your application is accepted, our residency coordinator will contact you to arrange an interview where you’ll meet with our program director, faculty and residents. Residents will show you our facilities and spend time answering your questions. Lunch will be provided.
For out-of-town applicants, we have a preferred hotel with a discounted rate.
Questions About Our Program? We’re Here to Help
Entering a medical residency program is one of the most important steps in your early medical career. We want you to be empowered in your decision and our residency coordinator is available to answer any questions you may have. Call us today at 708-245-8955.