Ascension Illinois-Saint Joseph Chicago Program

Program Identity & Fit

Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago is a community-based family medicine program with over 50 years of continuous training history, blending an urban community hospital identity with an academic affiliation to University of Illinois College of Medicine. The training model centers on longitudinal continuity: residents build their own patient panel at Ascension Medical Group Illinois Primary Care Chicago across all three years, functioning within an 18-doctor group practice model rather than a typical "resident clinic," and inpatient care is run as a genuine family medicine teaching service with residents as primary admitting/discharging physicians. The program offers unusually strong pediatric infrastructure (three board-certified pediatric faculty, a dedicated underserved pediatric clinic, Lurie Children's rotations) given the absence of a separate pediatrics residency, broad procedural scope (women's health procedures, skin procedures, POCUS, OMM), and six customizable longitudinal tracks (Women's Health, OMM, Advocacy, LGBTQIA+/HIV, Sports Medicine, Faculty Development). Scholarly activity is structurally required (QI project, Research Day, journal club) but the program's stated career outcomes skew toward full-scope community and outpatient practice, hospitalist work, and select fellowships, indicating research is supported rather than central to program identity.