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Family Medicine Residency

The Carle Foundation Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program is a community based program in a 489-bed tertiary care hospital. We're equipped with tremendous resources and research opportunities. 

The Carle Family Medicine Residency program is no longer accepting applications. Interested applicants are encouraged to review the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria Family Medicine Residency program, with training at Carle Health Methodist Hospital in Peoria, Illinois.

Letter from the Chief Resident

The time spent in this family medicine residency has been an incredibly enriching experience for everyone involved. Over the past few years, I have had the privilege of working alongside dedicated mentors and fellow residents who have fostered an environment of collaboration, learning and mutual support. Our leadership continuously seeks to engage residents and their feedback with an emphasis on education and resident wellness.

Our residency offers hands-on patient care experience in both the outpatient and inpatient setting. Various tracks such as rural medicine, hospital medicine or outpatient allow you to tailor your education based on career goals. The program's focus on community engagement and preventative care with a clinic first model allows for excellent patient continuity and exposure to both adult and pediatric patients. The diverse range of patient cases and the emphasis on holistic care have honed my clinical skills and enhanced my ability to address a wide spectrum of health concerns.

As the program approaches its closure in 2026, the collective growth and professional development of its residents stand as a testament to the program's lasting impact. The dedication to patient-centered care that this program has established will undoubtedly resonate in the practice of its alumni and the broader field of family medicine for years to come.

Regards, 
Sindhura Allala, MD
Chief Resident, 2024-2025


“The diverse range of patient cases and the emphasis on holistic care have honed my clinical skills and enhanced my ability to address a wide spectrum of health concerns.”

Sindhura Allala, MD

Chief Resident, Class of 2024

“There is a true 'family' atmosphere among our residents and faculty which allows residents to feel that they are truly supported in their journey.”

Nejmun Hussain, MD
Chief Resident, Class of 2022

Program Description

Program Highlights

The Carle Family Medicine Residency in Urbana, Illinois is an ACGME-accredited residency program at a community-based, academic-affiliated hospital with 489 beds. It is a tertiary referral center for the region with a Level I Trauma Center, Level III perinatal services, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Level 3 Epilepsy Center, cancer institute, and heart and vascular institute. Strengths in emergency medicine/trauma, obstetrics, pediatrics, critical care, surgery and many more help make our residency an excellent training opportunity as well as provide an excellent referral base for our patients.

Carle Foundation Hospital is the primary teaching hospital for the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, which gives our residents opportunities to teach and serve as mentors for medical students.

Our residency program uses unique and innovative teaching styles and techniques as well as an internal track system so residents can individualize their third-year training toward their future career goals.

Many family medicine residency graduates are recruited by the Carle Foundation Hospital system upon graduation to work in family medicine clinics, convenient care, and as hospitalists.

Curriculum

Residency training in family medicine includes hands-on patient care experiences in clinic and hospital settings, in nursing homes, and at home. The majority of our didactics have been consolidated to occur on Tuesday afternoons. During these times, residents are excused from other duties to attend these learning opportunities.

PGY-1

  • Family Medicine Orientation
  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service (x3)
  • Pulmonary/Radiology
  • Cardiology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Pediatrics Outpatient
  • Nursery
  • Pediatrics Inpatient
  • Obstetrics (days)
  • Gynecology
  • Elective 
  • Continuity Clinics 1-2 half days per week*
PGY-2
  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service
  • Night Float
  • ICU
  • Sports Medicine
  • Quality/Nephrology
  • Pediatrics Outpatient
  • Surgery
  • Psychiatry
  • Neurology
  • Research/Rheumatology
  • Obstetrics (days)
  • Orthopedics/Night Float
  • Elective
  • Continuity Clinics 2-4 half days per week*
PGY-3

  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service (x2)
  • Pediatrics Inpatient
  • Urology (1)/Endocrinology (3)
  • Ophthalmology (1)/ENT (1)/Addiction Medicine (2)
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Elective
  • Flex (track specific)
  • Continuity Clinics 3-5 half days per week*

*Continuity Clinics may occur more or less frequently depending on the rotation

Longitudinal Curriculum

  • Acute Care
  • Behavioral Science/Psychiatry
  • Community Medicine
  • Critical Thinking
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  • Healthcare Management
  • Information Technology
  • Laboratory Medicine
  • Leadership Development
  • Legal Medicine and Ethics
  • Oral Health
  • Patient Education
  • Pharmacology
  • Point of Care Ultrasound
  • Practice Management
  • Procedures
  • Professionalism
  • Radiology
  • Research and Scholarly Activity
  • Residents as Teachers

Electives

  • Convenient Care/Acute Care
  • Dermatology
  • Endocrinology
  • ENT
  • Family Medicine Clinic
  • Geriatrics
  • Gynecology
  • Hospitalist Medicine
  • Neurology
  • Obstetrics Inpatient
  • Obstetrics Outpatient
  • Palliative Care
  • Psychiatry/Behavioral Health
  • Pulmonology
  • Research
  • Rheumatology
  • Rural Medicine
  • Trauma
  • Urology
  • Wound Care
  • Self-designed electives considered

Curriculum Tracks

Family Medicine

  • Pediatrics Outpatient
  • Acute Care Clinic
  • Psychology
  • Musculoskeletal Medicine
  • Flex 1 (Family Medicine Clinic and/or OMT)
  • Flex 2 
Women's Health, Gynecology

  • Obstetrics Outpatient
  • Ambulatory Women’s Health
  • Breast
  • Uro-gynecology/Gynecology
  • Flex (x2)
Hospitalist

  • Hospitalist Rotation (x3)
  • ICU
  • Flex (x2)

How We Track Resident Performance

At the end of each block rotation, residents receive a written and verbal evaluation from the attending(s) with whom they worked most closely. They also complete a self-evaluation of skills on a quarterly basis and take an annual in-training examination that is similar to the family medicine certification examination. In continuity clinic, preceptors complete daily evaluations so residents have more immediate written feedback. We use the ACGME Milestones evaluations twice per year to evaluate the performance levels residents are expected to demonstrate for skills, knowledge and behaviors in the six Core Competency domains of family medicine.

Meet Our Team

Ricky Bhimani, MD, FHM

Administration

Program Director

Stephanie Finn, DO

Administration

Associate Program Director

Simone Hampton, MD

Core Faculty

Jin Ahn, DO

Faculty

Imani Anwisye-Mashele, MD, MPH

Faculty

Kristine Carpenter, MD

Faculty

Heidi Gaddey, MD

Faculty

Tracy Grotrian, DO

Faculty

J.R. Hoffman, MD

Faculty

Frances Kramer, MD

Faculty

Dawn McCoy, MD

Faculty

Erika McLean, MD

Faculty

Carla Rafferty, MD

Faculty

Anne Robin, MD

Faculty

Stanley Wu, MD

Faculty

Tina Yang, DO

Faculty

Jerrad Zimmerman, MD

Faculty

Sindhura Allala, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Oluwatosin Alo, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Anas Anas-Sohail, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Jacques Lamour, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Juan Mendoza Ortiz, MD

Resident

PGY-3

John Tholany, DO

Resident

PGY-3

Hameed Akanbi, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Jennifer Chiji-Aguma, MD

Resident

PGY-2

George Gerolimatos, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Alana Hutcheson, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Roberto Quizon, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Sukhdeep Singh, DO

Resident

PGY-2

Ishaan Sharma, MD

Resident

PGY-2