Frances Norlock, DO, MPH, FACP
Residency Director

The Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at Rush University Medical Center and Stroger Hospital of Cook County trains residents in both ambulatory and hospital medicine with an emphasis on the skills required for primary care practice. Residents divide their time evenly between Rush University Medical Center, one of the country's premier university medical centers and Stroger Hospital of Cook County, a storied public hospital with a long tradition of educational training and caring for the under-served. Located one block from each other, the two institutions' clinical and academic experiences provide for exceptionally diverse and complementary training.

The Primary Care Internal Medicine (PCIM) residency is structured to balance clinical work in the inpatient and outpatient settings with conferences and seminars. The inpatient experience includes rotations on the general medical wards, subspecialty services, medical intensive care units and cardiac intensive care units at Rush University Medical Center and Stroger Hospital of Cook County.

The outpatient training includes longitudinal continuity clinics in community and hospital-based settings, ambulatory block rotations and experience in the emergency room. Beginning in internship, all PCIM residents follow their own patients in a weekly continuity clinic. During the PGY 2 and PGY 3 years, PCIM residents may add a second outpatient clinic session.

During each year of training, each resident participates in six to eight four-week ambulatory rotations. These include medical Spanish language training, women’s health, urgent care, care of the HIV positive patient, geriatrics, dermatology, medical subspecialties, ophthalmology, orthopedics, migrant health, addiction medicine, homeless medicine, and correctional health care. Residents may also select or create outpatient electives that interest them. Ambulatory training occurs in community health centers, private practitioners' offices, hospital-based clinics, homeless shelters, treatment centers, correctional facility clinics, and home-based settings throughout the Chicago area.

Conferences and seminars complement the direct patient care experience. These include doctor-patient communication, disability medicine, medico-legal issues, psychiatric issues in primary care, community medicine, how to run a medical practice, and common cases in primary care such as musculoskeletal disorders, ear, nose and throat disorders, preconception counseling, and medical management of the pregnant patient.

Research opportunities are available at both Rush University Medical Center and Cook County Hospital. Current areas of investigation include health services research, community and epidemiologic research, preventive medicine, medical education, primary care of the HIV positive patient, domestic violence, women's health and medical ethics.

We are accepting applications over the Internet via ERAS, the Electronic Residency Application Service. For more information visit our website at http://www.cchil.org/pc.

For additional information, contact:

Susan Weyforth
Academic Program Coordinator
Primary Care Internal Medicine
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Administration Building
1900 W. Polk St., Suite 912
Chicago, IL 60612

Phone: (312) 864-4462
E-mail: Sue_Weyforth@rush.edu