The University of Illinois at Chicago is located on the west side of the city, near Chicago’s “Loop” and within easy reach of all of Chicago’s cultural, educational, and entertainment attractions. It is one of three campuses of the University of Illinois (the other two are in Springfield and Champaign-Urbana). The medical school at the University of Illinois is the largest in the United States, graduating nearly 1300 students each year. Research is a primary focus, with significant funding coming from the National Institutes of Health as well as from other sources. The University of Illinois Medical School is widely regarded as a leader in producing educators, medical practitioners, and scientific investigators.
The Medical Center includes a 500-bed hospital as well as more than 40 primary care and specialty clinics. Its state-of-the-art facilities include a newly built Outpatient Care Center, an outpatient SurgiCenter, a 3-Tesla MRI, two angiographic suites, an image-guided surgery planning room, and a dedicated neurosurgical unit that includes a 22-bed Neurosurgical ICU and a step-down floor. The Medical Center is a major referral center, attracting cases from around the world as well as from the entire U.S. Midwest region.
