MacNeal Family Medicine Residency Program

Didactics

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MacNeal Family Medicine Residency
3231 South Euclid Avenue
Berwyn, Illinois 60402
Phone: (708) 783-3094
Fax: (708) 783-0776
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About MacNeal

For nearly a century, MacNeal has been providing quality healthcare to the Berwyn community and its surrounding area. Families continue to trust us with the care of their loved ones because of the strong relationships we've built with them over the years. And as our community grows, MacNeal consistently expands our scope of care to keep every generation of your family growing strong.

Today, the MacNeal Health Network serves the healthcare needs of more than one million people in the near west and southwest suburbs of Chicago. Along with MacNeal Hospital, a 427-bed fully accredited teaching hospital, our network is comprised of ten primary care centers, a resource library, a school for at-risk children and many other programs. Nearly 90% of our 400 physicians are board-certified, and many speak Spanish. This breadth of service at MacNeal ensures that you and your family receive the level of care you deserve, year after year.

MacNeal offers families in the Berwyn community a broad scope of services:

Birthing Center
Cancer Treatment Center
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiovascular Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Family Practice
Home Health
Internal Medicine
Neurology
Occupational Medicine
Orthopedics
Outpatient Services
Pulmonary Care
Rehabilitation Services
Sports Medicine
State-of-the-art Radiology
Transitional Care

MacNeal is proud to offer the following medical specialty programs:

The largest Behavioral Health Services program in the Chicago area
Home Health Services: highly personalized, homebound care for patients across seven counties
Serving injured workers and employers through Occupational Health Services
Adult and pediatric Rehabilitation Services, including occupational, physical and speech therapy
Affiliation with the University of Chicago, providing top-notch medical education programs and integrating a constant exchange of resident physicians in rotation
Community Health Education: partnerships with private, civic and educational institutions to create early detection and preventive care programs
The first Family Practice program established in Illinois, which remains one of the largest and most dynamic of its kind

For help in finding a quality physician for your family, to schedule an appointment, or to speak directly with a nurse, call our Physician Referral Service and Nurse Advice Line at 1-888-MACNEAL today.

Didactics

We provide protected educational time every day from noon to 1pm. The goal of this dedicated teaching time is to provide education and training on subjects that are essential to the practice of family medicine, with a special focus on topics that are not directly covered in other areas of the residency curriculum. It addresses all 6 ACGME competencies and meets other specific RRC and AOA training requirements.

We include the following conferences in each 4 week block:

1. Reflection group – A multidisciplinary group of residents and faculty consult for one resident each block on a challenging patient case to help improve the resident’s well-being and satisfaction as well as improve the patient’s care.

2. Journal club – Residents learn principles of evaluating the literature and apply these to specific articles of interest to help improve the care given to their patients.

3. M&M – The senior residents from our inpatient services (Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics) each analyze a case using the Institute of Medicine and the 6 ACGME competencies to suggest improvements to patient care. The results are used to try to improve hospital systems of care.

4. Doctor-Patient Communication or Risk Management Curriculum – Conferences designed to improve your communication skills by using evidence and real time practice of skills and decrease risk of liability

5. FMC Patient Safety and Quality Conference – A multidisciplinary meeting of all FMC staff, residents, and faculty to work toward improving the care of our patients using quality improvement methods and chronic disease management

6. Board Review and/or AFP journal club

7. Resident Meeting – This meeting, run by the chief residents, is an opportunity for residents to contribute their input to programmatic decisions, voice their opinions or concerns, and discuss issues pertinent to their training.

8. 8-10 medical knowledge and patient care topics from a core list developed and given by our residents and faculty

Rotation-specific Teaching:

Family Medicine Service, Obstetrics, Inpatient pediatrics (MacNeal), Children’s ER, ER (MacNeal), ICU, Orthopedics/Sports Medicine and Neurology rotations all have specific teaching time incorporated during the rotation.

Procedure Workshops:

These are extended 1.5- 2 hour long sessions given once per block to review the indications/contraindications, steps, complications, and technique for the procedures listed below. Each session has a simulation of the procedure to provide hands-on practice to improve competency.

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