Prime Midwest GME Consortium-Saint Francis Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, safety-net-oriented Transitional Year program at a 270-bed acute care hospital in Evanston, IL, sponsored through the Prime Midwest GME Consortium, designed explicitly as a clinical base year for graduates pursuing specialties requiring preliminary training (radiation oncology, diagnostic radiology, anesthesiology, PM&R, neurology, dermatology, occupational medicine) or for those entering military/public health service. The curriculum is heavily internal medicine-weighted (7 of 13 blocks) with single-block exposures to surgery/trauma, emergency medicine, and ambulatory primary care, plus elective selectives in subspecialty medicine fields, reflecting a broad internal-medicine-based foundation rather than a specialty-specific or research-driven identity. The program has a long-standing track record (20+ years) of placing residents into advanced specialty training and into the Armed Forces, and draws from both allopathic and osteopathic schools, with the majority historically being US medical graduates. There is no stated research infrastructure or expectation; the institutional emphasis, evident from its Lown Institute and community-benefit recognitions, is on equitable, accessible community care rather than academic or investigative output.