University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Medicine

Medical Pediatrics     Combined Clinic

The Medicine-Pediatrics program oversees the UIC Primary Care Group for Adults and Children, a combined medicine-pediatrics practice of residents and faculty on site in the medical center's ambulatory complex. During their first two year of training, residents attend one-half day of clinic per week. Senior residents expand their practices to two half days of clinic per week so as to improve the continuity experience. Residents are supervised exclusively by Medicine-Pediatrics trained faculty. The office is staffed and equipped to care for patients of all ages. In addition, we protect time at the start of each clinic for ambulatory educational activities that are organized by the medicine-pediatric chief residents.

Message from the Medicine-Pediatrics               Combined Clinic Director

Many of you have been fortunate enough to “discover” Med-Peds by working with talented residents or faculty from our discipline.  My route here was guided by a compassionate, funny Med-Peds intern whom I met in my third-year Pediatrics clerkship, as well as a Med-Peds trained faculty (also the program director at the time), who later became a mentor and remains my friend. 

In almost a decade of interviewing Med-Peds residency candidates, I’ve observed some commonalities among those attracted to our specialty:

• We each inpire to be the "jack of all trades"
• We crave for depth as well as breadth of training
• We love the diversity of human experience and the intellectual challenge of learning to care     for patients across their life span, from beginning to the end of the journey 
• We value and honor the connection between doctor and patient
• We recongnize that well-placed humor is therapeutic. for patient and doctors alike

At UIC Med-Peds, we are fortunate to attract physicians who personify these traits, and who make teaching a joy.  As a focal point for our program, the combined clinic is where residents truly come together as a group to hone their adult and pediatric ambulatory skills.  Residents and faculty work closely to mentor and teach one another, celebrate, commiserate, challenge, and support each other.  The clinic mirrors the overall UIC experience in providing an excellent balance of autonomy, and supervision by attending faculty. We have a steady influx of patients from hospital discharges, newborn nursery, our ER, and from the graduating PG4s.  A number of these patients have been with us for over a decade!

We welcome your visit to UIC, to see what keeps bringing them back.

Leslie Jabine, M.D., FAAP

Director, Primary Care Group for Adults & Children