Quick Facts about our program

The University of Illinois at Chicago Emergency Medicine Residency Program was started in 1978 and was first reviewed and accredited in 1982. The residency program has not only received five consecutive 5-year RRC accreditations, but it was also selected for a pilot 8-year accreditation in 2006.

Training is divided between three main sites: University of Illinois Medical Center , Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, and Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center . Each is situated in a different part of the City of Chicago, creating great diversity in patient populations, encounters, pathology of disease and consequently, resident experiences.

In addition, the residency program has longstanding relationships with various other hospitals and clinical sites across the city that our residents rotate through as well. The program is affiliated with TOXIKON, the first accredited fellowship in medical toxicology in the United States.

Together these attributes have made the University of Illinois Emergency Medicine Residency second to none in the training of Emergency Physicians who today are practicing in various clinical settings throughout the United States and across the world.