Adventist LaGrange Memorial Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange is a community-based, faith-influenced family medicine residency in Chicago's western suburbs that trains broadly credentialed generalists through a traditional block curriculum spanning inpatient family medicine service, OB, pediatrics, geriatrics, orthopedics and substantial elective time. The program's identity is defined by a heavily osteopathic resident body (OMM lectures, Director of Osteopathic Education) alongside MD and IMG trainees, a high faculty-to-resident ratio emphasizing close supervision, and an explicit mission orientation toward underserved care, evidenced by partnerships with a local FQHC and homeless shelter and recurring international mission trips to Central America. Research is not a structural pillar; the curriculum foregrounds procedural competency, behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, and practice management aimed at direct entry into full-scope community family practice rather than fellowship or academic pathways. The program values social responsibility, hands-on generalist skill-building, and comfort operating in a whole-person, faith-informed care model rather than subspecialty pedigree.