Loyola University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Loyola's integrated (0+5) Vascular Surgery Residency is a newly established program built atop a vascular fellowship tradition dating to 1978, based at a quaternary-care, Jesuit-affiliated academic medical center with a Level 1 trauma center in Maywood, IL. Training spans four distinct sites - Loyola University Medical Center, Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, and MacNeal Hospital - exposing residents to academic, VA, and community practice settings and a full spectrum of open and endovascular arterial, venous and lymphatic disease, including complex aortic and thoracoabdominal repair. The program explicitly orients toward academic careers, embeds dedicated vascular ultrasound lab rotations toward RPVI eligibility, and requires trainees to present or publish one research project per year, while also placing early leadership responsibility on residents who supervise general surgery and podiatry trainees and medical students. Structured milestones include VSCORE-based topics conferences, resident-led case and M&M conferences, and progressive autonomy in running the clinical service.