UIC-Christ Curriculum

The Program’s goal is to provide cutting edge approaches to training tomorrow’s Family Physician. Strategic partnerships between Advocate Health Care, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and various funding sources enables us to achieve "value added" results. Since its inception, UIC-Christ has pioneered curricular innovations in procedures, community based Geriatrics, Sports Medicine and Clinical Preventive Services. Behavioral Science training partners with a premier substance abuse program at Lutheran General Hospital, Advocate. Orthopedic instruction focuses on building ambulatory procedural skills. Eye and ENT rotations at UIC provide graduates with immersion experiences at the referral center for Illinois. UIC-Christ residents access the latest equipment and techniques--they perform radiofrequency surgery on surface lesions in the Family Practice Center and learn full colonoscopy techniques in Christ Hospital’s state-of-the-art GI lab.

Our curriculum’s centerpiece is a family practice inpatient service--our answer to the hospitalist movement. First year residents spend 3 months on the FP inpatient service, now our PG1s' most favorite rotation. In 1998 we petitioned the Residency Review Committee (RRC) to expand ambulatory training experiences to a second family practice center at South Shore(an Advocate affiliate). This urban family medicine training track serves an African American and Latino community and will become fully operational in 1999; it will be supported by the Department’s substantial Federal, State and Local grant efforts. Our restructured practice management curriculum will utilize the Boston based Tufts Managed Care Institute’s superb computer based instruction modules with real world scenarios of managed care practice. Evidence based medicine instruction is an integral part of our journal club, and teaching conferences. Finally, an international health curriculum is developing with the support of Hope Children’s Hospital’s world renowned Heart Institute and our own Dr. Alex Li’s World Bank sponsored Family Practice training partnership with China.

1st Year	2nd Year	3rd Year
Family Practice Inpatient Service--12 Weeks	Emergency Medicine--6 Weeks	Family Practice Inpatient--8 Weeks
	Community Medicine--4 Weeks	Family Practice Inpatient--8 Weeks
	Pediatric Inpatient-- 4 Weeks	Family Practice Center--8 Weeks
General Medicine-- 4 Weeks	Pediatric Selectives-- 8 Weeks	Family Practice Center--8 Weeks
Surgery--8 Weeks	Pediatric Selectives-- 8 Weeks	Geriatrics--4 Weeks
Surgery--8 Weeks	GI--4 Weeks	Community Medicine-- 4 Weeks
ICU--4 Weeks	EENT--4 Weeks	Medicine Selective-- 4 Weeks
OB/Gyn--12 Weeks	Orthopedics--4 Weeks	Cardiology--4 Weeks
	Urology--2 Weeks	Electives--20 Weeks
	Behavioral Science-- 4 Weeks
Pediatrics--12 Weeks	Dermatology-- 4 Weeks
	Neurology--4 Weeks
	Pulmonary--4 Weeks