Loyola Medicine Hosts First Annual Regional Keeley Cup To Benefit Emergency Medicine Education
May 22, 2024Categories: Emergency Medicine & Trauma, Loyola Medicine
MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program is proud to host the inaugural Regional Keeley Cup on Thursday, May 30th at 12 pm. This pioneering team-based competition is brought to life each year through the support of the Barbara G. & John L. Keeley, Jr. Center for Emergency Medicine Education. For the first time, this year's competition will feature four distinguished Chicago-area Emergency Medicine residency programs. Participants will vie not only for the prestigious title but also for a monetary award designed to bolster the winning program's initiatives in resident wellness and community service.
This annual educational contest is the only one of its kind in Illinois, and a key initiative of the Barbara G. & John L. Keeley, Jr. Center for Emergency Medicine Education, which was established through a generous $1 million donation from the Keeley Family Foundation to Loyola Medicine. The competition promises a series of collaborative challenges, designed to test diagnostic acumen, procedural proficiency and the ability to navigate simulation-based patient scenarios. Outside the competitive arena, residents will engage in a meaningful service project led by Loyola Street Medicine, embodying the Keeley Center’s ethos of community engagement and altruism. The initiative underscores the Barbara G. and John L. Keeley, Jr. Center's commitment to advancing emergency medicine education for the emerging generation of emergency physicians.
The event is expected to draw an audience of over 100 emergency medicine residents and physicians, providing a platform for teams from Loyola Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Swedish Hospital, part of Endeavor Health, and Franciscan Health Olympia Fields to showcase their skills. The highlight of the day will be a relay-style patient encounter simulation, kicking off at approximately noon CDT. The event will conclude with an award presentation and remarks from Shawn Vincent, CEO of Loyola Medicine, Mark Cichon, DO, Division Director of Emergency Services at Loyola Medicine, and Kevin Keeley, President of the Keeley Family Foundation.
This year's Regional Keeley Cup marks a significant milestone for Loyola Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program as it fosters a spirit of competition, learning and service among the future leaders of emergency medicine.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
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About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).