Advocate Health Care-Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital's OB-GYN residency is a four-year, community-based academic program built around a freestanding, regional tertiary referral center that combines a strong community hospital identity with subspecialty depth uncommon outside university settings—three full-time gynecologic oncologists, seven perinatologists, a fetal surgery program, and four full-time urogynecology faculty. Residents train under a mix of private and faculty, generalist and subspecialist, university- and community-trained attendings, managing high surgical volumes (528 hysterectomies, ~500 major oncology cases annually) and complex maternal transports from a wide geographic catchment as a Level III/Level I trauma NICU site. The program is structured around graduated surgical and clinical responsibility, a resident-run continuity clinic supervised by fourteen generalist faculty, and dedicated subspecialty rotations (MFM, GYN-Onc, Urogynecology, REI) rather than a formal research or physician-scientist track. It appears to value broadly competent generalist-oriented surgeons who can competently manage both routine and highly complex obstetric/gynecologic pathology, reflecting its dual identity as a community hospital with tertiary-level subspecialty infrastructure.