Program
Family Medicine Center

The three year residency curriculum is designed to be maximally balanced and yet flexible, providing for excellent training in all the core areas of family medicine while allowing residents to tailor their experience to their individual interests and needs.

In the three years, all required rotations except two are at Vanguard MacNeal Hospital. The two required away rotations are at Comer's Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago and at Children's Memorial Hospital in the Emergency Department.

 

Values, Mission, Vision of Vanguard MacNeal FMRP & FMC

Values:
Wellness, Excellence, Innovation, Quality Patient Care, Compassion, Teamwork, Mentoring

Mission:
Our mission is quality patient care through a compassionate, integrative approach within a patient centered home. We provide excellent education in family medicine through lifelong learning. We promote health for life and wellness for our communities and ourselves.

Vision:
Our Family Medicine Team will enrich the lives of our patients, learners, and communities.

FMRP Educational Goals:

1. To provide a variety of clinical and didactic experiences that build competency in the areas most commonly encountered by practicing family physicians.
2. To develop residents’ skill of critical self-reflection, acquisition of the best knowledge and information available, and critical appraisal and application of that knowledge to an individual patient’s care.
3. To develop residents’ ability to care for themselves and show compassion for their patients using bio-psychosocial orientation.
4. To develop residents’ ability to work in teams for the benefit of their patients, health systems, and communities.