Prime Midwest GME Consortium-Saint Francis Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Saint Francis Hospital's internal medicine residency is a community-based, safety-net program on Chicago's North Shore with a 75-year training history, blending hospitalist-style supervised autonomy with a robust ambulatory curriculum (35-40% of training time) built around a three-year continuity clinic panel spanning South Evanston's underserved population to affluent North Shore residents. Fellowship placement is a defining outcome, with a dense and consistent track record of subspecialty matches (cardiology, nephrology, endocrine, PCCM, GI, ID) at academic centers such as Mayo, Stanford, BIDMC, and Northwestern, supported by a dedicated PGY-2/PGY-3 research month and a mandatory clinical research project for every resident. The program emphasizes hands-on procedural exposure, simulation-lab training, and minimized service burden to protect educational time, suggesting it values residents who are clinically engaged but also self-directed enough to pursue and complete scholarly projects without heavy institutional research infrastructure. Its identity sits between a strong community hospitalist training ground and a fellowship feeder program, rather than a quaternary academic center.