Introduction to Advocate Lutheran General Internal Medicine Residency program

Mission statement

Advocate Lutheran General Internal Medicine Residency provides comprehensive educational curriculum and training in internal medicine, in a safe and conducive learning environment, to fully prepare our residents to practice as competent, well-rounded and compassionate primary care physicians, enter subspecialty fellowships and become physician leaders and educators.

Graduates of our program will continue to deliver safe, high-quality care to help their patients live well; advocate for the community they serve, educate and mentor future residents and physicians. Our program is proud to care for a diverse patient population which includes under-represented minorities from all over the world. We train residents to meet the needs of the diverse population with cultural humility. We are committed to recruit diverse residents and value and respect the uniqueness each resident brings to our work family.

Values and behaviors

Program aim

• Provide our residents with a high-quality, comprehensive internal medicine and specialties curriculum in an independent academic center.
• Impart clinical and academic excellence that will prepare residents for the ABIM board exam and to enter practice in primary care, fellowship training, or academic hospital medicine.
• Provide our preliminary residents with one-year Preliminary Specialty Focused Curriculum that will enhance their internal medicine knowledge and prepare them for their future residency training.
• Promote learning environment that is safe, supportive and collegial; fosters intellectual curiosity and life-long learning.
• Provide strong mentorship and guide our residents in developing into well-rounded, curious and compassionate professionals in their specialty of choice.
• Educate residents to work in inter-professional teams, focus on patient safety and autonomy, quality improvement, high value care and population health.
• Instill professional and ethical standards, that focus on diversity and inclusiveness, self-reflection, wellness, and leadership skills.
• Provide residents with diverse clinical training in social determinants of health, implicit bias and microaggressions to cultivate equity, diversity and inclusion in future generations of physicians.
• Apply the tenets of osteopathic medicine for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, disease and injury, for residents who desire osteopathic recognition.
• Provide residents with training and skill sets to appraise clinically relevant literature and incorporate research into clinical practice utilizing our expansive patient population.