University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-based, six-year urology program built around a multi-site model spanning UI Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, OSF Little Company of Mary, and Lurie Children's Hospital, giving residents exposure across academic, safety-net, community, and pediatric settings within a single training arc. A dedicated PGY4 research year anchors the curriculum, offering access to an NIH-funded prostate cancer laboratory, the cross-disciplinary UIC Innovation Center (medical device design with engineering/business/architecture faculty), and a School of Public Health master's pathway, with residents expected to present nationally and often publish. Clinical exposure covers general urology, oncology, pediatric urology, reconstructive/pelvic health, andrology/infertility, and gender-affirming surgery, with graded autonomy culminating in independent robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgical practice by PGY5-6. The program explicitly frames its research year as serving both academically-bound residents and those headed to community clinical practice, indicating it values broad surgical competence paired with investigative literacy rather than a single fixed career track.