Family Medicine Residency | Department of Family and Community Medicine (2024)

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Choose the right one for you

There are two pathways within our program:

1. The original 3-year residency program entirely based in Chicago at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UIH) and other local health care facilities. This program accepts 8 residents each year (8-8-8).
2. A 3-year residency program in which the resident trains primarily at UIHealth in Chicago, but spends a total of 3 months during their training learning at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Services. This is an Indian Health Services clinic located in Chinle, AZ that offers comprehensive, multi-disciplinary health care. One resident is accepted to this pathway each year (1-1-1).

The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) code numbers are 1150120C1 for the Chicago program and 1150120C2 for the program with the Rural Medicine Pathway.

You must meet the following criteria

All applicants must be registered with the NRMP and apply through ERAS.

Additionally, all applicants must have passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 or the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensure Examination (COMLEX) Level 1.

Graduates from medical schools outside of the United States (US)

If you graduated from a medical program outside the US, you must meet the following criteria for your application to be reviewed:

• Hold a medical degree from a school listed in the World Health Organization Directory of Medical Schools.
• Have a valid certificate from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) if already graduated from medical school.
• Have US citizenship or legal authorization to work in the US. Our program does not sponsor visas.

Please note that graduates from medical schools outside of the US are unlikely to be considered for an invitation to interview if they have not had substantial clinical experience in the US or if they graduated from medical school more than three years ago.​

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What to expect

Interviews are scheduled on most Wednesdays in October through January each year. Interviews will be held virtually.

Applicants will be contacted via email by our residency program coordinators with an invitation to schedule an interview.

At UIC we like to think of scholarship as defined by Ernest Boyer: the scholarship of discovery, the scholarship of integration, the scholarship of application, and the scholarship of teaching.

Our “Resident Research and Scholarship Program” provides residents opportunities to engage in scholarly endeavors in a variety of domains. Under the guidance of faculty members, residents have the opportunity to craft an individualized scholarly path for themselves. Sound intriguing? Come and learn more…

Your residency training is a critical learning period in your professional career and we look forward to participating with you in this important educational experience.

• Memoona Hasnain, MD, MHPE, PhD–Director of Research
• Amanda Perry, MD–Residency Program Director
• Learn about department research

Thank you for visiting our website to learn about our exceptional program. We are excited to share our residency’s purpose, philosophy, and resources.

I am proud to be a graduate of the UIC Family Medicine Residency (FMR). It was here that I learned how to be a full-spectrum Family Medicine Physician, and I continue to have the broadest scope in our department. This program trained me to do inpatient and outpatient medicine, geriatrics and home visits (with help from a UIC Geriatrics Fellowship), pregnancy care, reproductive health, procedures, LGBTQ+ health, medication-assisted recovery, and more! We train our residents to provide evidence-based comprehensive care as compassionate, patient-centered, justice-oriented physicians, and to serve those in areas of unmet need.

We have an extremely diverse patient population at the University of Illinois at Chicago and are one of the top Medicaid providers of Illinois. Our residents receive strong training in underserved care. However, the vulnerable groups we treat extend beyond socioeconomic status to include reproductive healthcare, LGBTQ+ care, addiction medicine, community health, and care for other special populations.

Our residency program’s broad patient populations draw from three complementary clinic sites. Mile Square Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center providing community-based care to a mix of mostly low-income English and Spanish speakers. University Village on the UIC undergraduate campus serves an ethnically and economically diverse community with an array of health insurances. We recently added a continuity site at Pilsen Family Health Center, a community clinic in a majority Spanish-speaking neighborhood.

Our residents come from all over the country and work together as a cohesive and mutually supportive team. They have chosen UIC FMR for the opportunity to become evidence-based, full-spectrum Family Medicine physicians with expertise in the care of special and vulnerable populations, addressing social determinants of health and health disparities. Our residents also take advantage of the many University resources, such as tuition waivers for graduate school, College of Medicine teaching roles, and the tremendous network of interprofessional and community partners available to our department.

We, as a department, believe that Family Medicine is the answer to many of the challenges of American healthcare, and our faculty represent the diverse spectrum of Family Medicine. They each maintain broad-scope practices alongside our residents at either University Village/Pilsen or one of Mile Square’s sites. Activities of the faculty include organizational leadership within the College of Medicine and the University, pregnancy care, inpatient medicine, gender-inclusive medicine, substance use disorders, community activism, global health, research, teaching, procedures, and more.

We are proud to be a RHEDI site and are advocates for reproductive justice, both in education and in our own practice. We are committed to training full-scope reproductive healthcare to our residents.

UI Health’s large academic medical system provides the benefit of training in advanced specialty and subspecialty departments via upper-level rotations. Within the university medical center, we maintain two “unopposed” family medicine inpatient services. In these services, we provide care to our own adult, child, newborn, and pregnant/laboring patients as well as a portion of the “unassigned” patients admitted from the Emergency Department. Our residents also rotate with several specialty services at Jesse Brown Veteran’s Administration Hospital, and we hold a competitive Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014 (VACAA) grant.

We have built this program to help you realize your highest potential as a Family Medicine physician. If you are seeking full-spectrum, academic Family Medicine training, please consider the UIC Department of Family and Community Medicine.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with questions.