Olympia Fields Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Franciscan Health Olympia Fields is a community-based, three-year ACGME emergency medicine program rooted in a historic osteopathic tradition (successor to the largest AOA-approved EM program in the country), training residents across moderate-to-high volume suburban Chicago and northwest Indiana emergency departments. Clinical training is built around community sites (Olympia Fields, Dyer, Crown Point) supplemented by off-service rotations at Stroger Cook County for trauma/toxicology and Advocate Christ for pediatrics/PICU, giving residents exposure to both suburban and high-acuity urban/tertiary trauma populations. The program emphasizes hands-on clinical skill-building through a dedicated simulation, ultrasound, slit lamp, and cadaver lab at Midwestern University, one-on-one faculty mentorship, and scholarly activity development, but its identity centers on producing well-rounded community emergency physicians rather than academic subspecialists. Structure (8 residents/class, shift-based curriculum, elective selectives in subspecialty medicine) suggests the program values clinically capable, adaptable residents prepared for diverse community practice environments.