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.

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.