Prime Midwest GME Consortium-Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital is a community-based, unopposed family medicine residency on Chicago's near-northwest side, serving a diverse, medically underserved urban population (including homeless, incarcerated, and immigrant communities) through its safety-net hospital and affiliated PrimeCare FQHC continuity clinics. The program emphasizes full-spectrum, high-volume clinical training with unusual procedural depth for family medicine—especially obstetrics (700 deliveries/year, C-section scrubbing, IUPC/FSE placement, PGY-3 colposcopy track)—alongside dedicated addiction medicine, behavioral health, and community medicine curricula tied to public health and advocacy work. Research is not emphasized; instead the program prioritizes graduated autonomy, night-float-based humane scheduling, resident-driven culture, and a faculty development track preparing interested residents for academic teaching roles, with graduates oriented toward broad-scope community practice. The program explicitly values mission-alignment with underserved care, demonstrated community ties, and physicians drawn to comprehensive, hands-on primary care in a culturally complex, safety-net environment.