McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Delnor Program

Program Identity & Fit

The Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency at Delnor is a university-affiliated community program in suburban Geneva, Illinois, distinguished by being the sole residency on its host hospital campus, which allows fully dedicated family medicine training rather than competition for procedures and inpatient exposure with other specialties. The clinical identity is suburban/traditional full-scope family practice, with faculty fellowship-trained in women's health, palliative care, and sports medicine, and structured opportunities in OB, sports medicine, and rural experiences rather than the underserved-urban or FQHC focus of its sister McGaw programs. Research is a structural expectation rather than an elective add-on: every resident completes two scholarly projects, presents at the departmental Davee Resident Research Day, and can engage further through the Starzl Academy physician-scientist track, though the program's stated orientation remains community-based clinical practice rather than academic medicine as a primary output. The program values residents drawn to continuity-based, relationship-centered primary care in a smaller-community setting with access to broader Northwestern academic resources, alongside demonstrated service, teaching, and community-engagement orientation reflected across resident profiles.