Olympia Fields Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Franciscan Health-Olympia Fields is a five-year osteopathic-rooted urology residency (one resident per year) built around comprehensive, high-autonomy surgical training across a single sponsoring hospital and several Chicagoland affiliate sites, with early and progressive hands-on responsibility beginning in intern year. The program emphasizes endourology, complex urologic oncology, and reconstructive urology, using a structured intern-specific curriculum layered atop weekly didactics, mock orals, and M&M conference to build both breadth and procedural independence. Career outcomes lean heavily toward direct entry into general urologic practice performing subspecialty procedures, though a meaningful minority pursue fellowships in oncology, reconstruction, female pelvic medicine, endourology, and laparoscopy/robotics. The program values continuity of physician-patient relationships, osteopathic principles, and residents who are comfortable assuming operative responsibility early rather than deferring to a research-heavy or subspecialty-first identity.