Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center of Chicago Program

Program Identity & Fit

Sinai Chicago's OBGYN program is an urban, safety-net residency whose institutional identity is explicitly built around addressing racial disparities in maternal mortality and serving underinsured, underserved Chicago communities. Clinical training draws on a broad network of community-based sites (Access Community Health Center, Esperanza Health Centers, Lawndale Christian Health Center, Alivio Medical Center) alongside hospital-based subspecialty rotations in urogynecology, gynecologic oncology, MFM, REI, and family planning, giving residents high procedural and pathology volume in a high-acuity, high-need population. Research is supported through a formal collaboration with the Sinai Urban Health Institute, which provides epidemiologic and data-analysis infrastructure oriented toward health-disparities scholarship rather than bench science. Graduates have gone on to both fellowship (MFM, urogynecology, MIGS) and community/private OBGYN practice, and the program's stated mission and community-partnership structure signal that it values residents committed to health equity and continuity with an underserved patient base rather than pure academic pedigree.