From the Program Director

It is my great pleasure to introduce you to one of the finest Medicine Residencies in the country. This is my nineteenth year as a Program Director, yet the excitement of bringing physicians to their fullest potential continues to motivate me every day I teach. My approach is "hands on" in nature...I interact with the housestaff 12 months a year in a variety of learning environments.

The University of Illinois sponsors over 50 ACGME Accredited Residency Programs with a fully staffed Graduate Medical Education office to assist in the administration of its programs. This resource facilitates constant attention to residents' needs and assures compliance with all educational and duty hours requirements.

The campus offers two inpatient training sites: The University of Illinois Medical Center and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. These sites assure a diverse patient population that encompasses a large underserved population, a veteran's population and a tertiary-referral patient base that feeds our research, transplant and sub-specialty services. Both facilities have state-of-the-art technology including a computerized medical record that saves time for the housestaff as well as facilitates prior data retrieval and continuity of care between the inpatient and outpatient setting. The University outpatient clinic is a recently built spacious center that allows a comfortable environment for your ambulatory experience that will make up one-third of your training. Our Health Services Library is a regional medical library that is accessible on-line, as well as housing hard copies of hard-to-find publications going back over a century in time. We also have a program-created online reading bank of pdf's that are used as the core literature for the program.

You will be taught by a full-time faculty consisting of almost 300 physicians that dedicate their time to the education of medical students and housestaff, direct patient care, and clinical/basic science research. You will have patient-care autonomy in a comfortably layered educational environment in which help is easily accessible during the day-to-day management of your own patients. Much of your training will take place under a Firm System in which General Medicine faculty dedicate over 6 months a year to the teaching on the General Medical floors.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the program is extraordinarily friendly, non-hierarchical, and matches students from all over the country into its warm and family-like environment. If you want a world-class program in a world-class city, whose cultural, artistic and sports diversity are second to none...please apply.

I look forward to having an opportunity to meet with you personally and discuss our program and your future goals.

Sincerely,

Fred Arthur Zar, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Program Director, Internal Medicine
University of Illinois Hospital