University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program

Program Identity & Fit

UIC's Med-Peds program is a 42-year-old academic safety-net residency training combined internal medicine-pediatrics physicians within Chicago's Illinois Medical District, with core sites at University of Illinois Hospital, Children's Hospital UI, and Jesse Brown VA, supplemented by Lurie Children's, Stroger, and Advocate hospitals. The program's identity centers on caring for a medically underserved, uninsured, and immigrant patient population across the lifespan, anchored by its distinctive Primary Care for Adults and Children (PCAC) continuity clinic, dedicated survivorship/transition-of-care clinics, and congenital cardiology consults. Scholarly work, community health advocacy, and health equity are structurally embedded through eight named tracks (including Leaders for Local Change, Medical Education, and Global Community Health with active Peru/Dominican Republic sites) and a tuition-free MPH option through UIC's School of Public Health. Graduate outcomes split broadly across Med-Peds primary care, hospital medicine, and both combined and categorical subspecialty fellowships, reflecting a program that values adaptability across underserved clinical environments alongside academic and advocacy engagement.