Cook County Health and Hospitals System-Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a public health-focused Preventive Medicine residency built on a partnership between Cook County Health, one of the nation's largest safety-net systems and local health departments serving 2.3 million residents, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, which provides the required MPH coursework. The program is small and individualized, admitting up to three residents per year, with a curriculum explicitly tailored to each resident's career goals and combining practicum work within a major local health department, weekly academic section meetings, scholarship/QI projects, and clinical training. Its identity is oriented toward training physician leaders in governmental public health, health equity, and population-level systems work rather than toward hospital-based subspecialty fellowship pathways, with faculty expertise spanning addiction medicine, correctional medicine, maternal-child health, and social determinants of health. The program explicitly values applicants drawn to structural determinants of health and population-based practice, and requires matched residents to separately gain acceptance into the Northwestern MPH program.