Rush University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Rush's Med-Peds program is an academic, tertiary-based combined residency built on well-established categorical Internal Medicine and Pediatrics programs, training residents across Rush University Medical Center and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital with longitudinal continuity in a dedicated combined Adult and Pediatric Primary Care clinic. The X+Y+Z block structure alternates residents between medicine and pediatrics every three months across four years, deliberately balancing tertiary/inpatient exposure with primary care longitudinal panels, and offers access to categorical tracks (Health Equity, Hospital Medicine, Global Health, Advocacy, Critical Care, Medical Education) rather than Med-Peds-specific pathways. Career outcomes reflected in resident narratives skew toward combined hospitalist practice, primary care, transitions-of-care work, and care for medically complex or underserved patients across the lifespan, with research blocks available but not positioned as programmatic identity. The program appears to value clinicians drawn to continuity across the age spectrum, comfort with both inpatient acuity and longitudinal outpatient management, and engagement with Chicago's underserved communities.