Curriculum for MacNeal Family Medicine Residency
Rotations
The three-year curriculum is designed to provide excellent training in the core areas of family medicine while allowing residents to tailor their experience to their individual interests and needs.
Most rotations are at MacNeal Hospital, with some experiences at Loyola University Medical Center. There is a 4-week inpatient pediatric rotation at Advocate Christ Medical Center during PGY-1 year and a 4-week Emergency Medicine rotation at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital during PGY-2 year.
Electives
Six 4-week rotations and one 2-week rotation of your residency are devoted to electives, allowing you to explore areas of special interest and obtain additional specialty training. These electives also give you the means to further prepare yourself for your planned career in either urban, rural, or suburban family medicine. Currently, our program offers many electives, with additional areas often available upon your request.
Available electives include:
- Asthma & Allergy
- ENT
- Faculty Development
- Gastroenterology
- Infectious Disease
- Integrative Medicine
- Medical Spanish
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Palliative Care
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Rheumatology
- Sports Medicine
- Urgent Care
Residents can also design their own elective that suits their individual learning needs and career plans.
Didactics
The goal of the dedicated teaching time is to provide education and training on subjects that are essential to the practice of family medicine, with a special focus on topics that are not directly covered in other areas of the curriculum.
Core Lecture Series
A 36-month lecture series covering Adolescent Medicine, Caring for Marginalized Populations, Dermatology, Geriatrics, Internal Medicine and its subspecialties, Maternity Care (Obstetrics), Pediatrics, Practice Management, Radiology, Sports Medicine, Surgery, and Women's Health.
Journal Club
Senior residents lead this monthly discussion of recent articles. Evidence-based medicine principles are reviewed and reinforced with the assistance of faculty.
Annual Scholarly Activity Forum
Each of the third-year residents presents the results of their scholarly activity and quality improvements projects that were completed during their residency.
Reflection and wellness group
A multidisciplinary group of residents and faculty consult for one resident each block on a challenging patient case to help improve the resident’s well-being and satisfaction as well as improve the patient’s care.
Doctor-Patient Communication and Risk Management Curriculum
Conferences are designed to improve your communication skills by using evidence and real time practice of skills and decrease risk of liability.
TEAMS conference
A multidisciplinary meeting of all FMC staff, residents, and faculty to work toward improving the care of our patients using quality improvement methods and chronic disease management.
Resident Meeting
This meeting, run by the chief residents, is an opportunity for residents to contribute their input to programmatic decisions, voice their opinions or concerns, and discuss issues pertinent to their training.
Procedure Workshops
These are extended sessions given once per block to review the indications, contraindications, steps, complications, and techniques. Each session has a simulation of the procedure to provide hands-on practice to improve competency:
- Nexplanon insertion and removal
- IUD insertion
- Joint injections
- Suturing
- Casting and splinting
- EMB
- Colposcopy
- Toe nail removal
- Circumcision
- Skin biopsies
- Colposcopy