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Introduction
The Combined Residency in Medicine-Pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, one of the longest running programs in the United States, has been training physicians who are specialists in the care of both adults and children since 1984. Our graduates practice in a wide variety of primary care settings, subspecialty fields, and in academic medicine. Over 90% of our graduates have obtained dual board certification after completing our program.
Mission
Our program’s mission is to prepare physicians with the skills and attitudes that consistently serve their patients’ interests best. Such skills include the capacity to identify and apply the best research evidence to each clinical situation, and to elicit and incorporate patients’ preferences and psychosocial context when planning their care. These skills are applied with an attitude of interest and respect, through engaged, caring relationships with patients. It is our experience that physicians who commit to these aims also achieve the benchmarks of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics, including dual certification, which is also a critical goal of this residency.
Philosophy
At the University of Illinois at Chicago, we appreciate the exceptional challenge of dual specialty training. It is our experience that physicians who work in a supportive environment are best able to bring caring and compassion to the patients they serve. We also expect our residents to have a voice in decisions that impact on the quality of their training experience. Our program provides ample opportunity for housestaff to interact closely with our faculty and with one another. Our residents train in the ambulatory setting together, and meet monthly as a group to address issues unique to the medicine-pediatrics training experience. We believe that resident physicians learn best by making meaningful decisions in the context of close supervision by attending physicians. To this end, resident physicians follow their own pediatric and adult patients in clinic as well as manage hospitalized patients. The residents' independence increases as they progress through the residency, as do their teaching and administrative responsibilities.
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