Postdoctoral Study

Training Programs: OPTIK Membership Roster

SIU, Springfield Center for Family Medicine
SIU Springfield Family Practice Program
Springfield, Illinois
www.siucenterforfamilymedicine.org

Residency Programs:

Family Medicine: 9 AOA approved slots

Is your program dually accredited?

Yes

Salary Information:

1st Year $47,348
2nd Year $47,700
3rd Year $49,200

Signing Bonus:
In the first year of residency, the program offers a $3,000 signing bonus upon receiving your temporary licensure.

Clerkship Opportunities:

Some residency programs provide educational experiences for medical students in the form of preceptorships and clerkships. This also provides an excellent opportunity for those students who wish to work with a residency program prior to making a commitment.

Educational Program:

Goals and Objectives of the Training Program
Emphasize continuity of care and accessibility for patients through a faculty based practice model.

• Become competitive in the marketplace by providing quality care.
• Offer comprehensive care, including Obstetrics and Geriatrics.
• Enhance procedural skills with regular rotation through the Family Medicine Procedure Clinic as well as participation in hands-on procedural workshops.
• Provide a strong faculty mentor program for ongoing formative feedback and evaluation.
• Enhance self-directed learning skills.
• Provide comprehensive longitudinal and rotational components of the curriculum including the choice of an OB-Two Track System, a month-long Geriatric experience including Alzheimer and Falls Clinic, Sports Medicine and Occupational Health experiences in Community-based state –of-the-art facilities.
• Cultivate residents ability to critically appraise information, i.e., critical thinking, as well as providing support and encouragement for Research and Scholarly Activity.
• Early needs assessment of each resident in order to develop a more meaningful individualized curriculum plan.
• Prepare resident for practice in an evolutionary health care environment including integration of medical informatics, and experience in our residency-based Acute Care Clinic. Expose medical students, physician assistants and other learners to Family and Community Medicine and be involved with post residency continuing medical education.
• Residents will be expected to develop an understanding of the ethical and intellectual underpinnings of Family Medicine, which would involve a study of the ethical basis of medical practice, of Clinical Epidemiology and of Evidence Based Medicine. Residents will be expected to be involved in the ongoing research activities of the department and to participate in specific scholarly activities. The exact nature of these projects will be decided on an individual basis and will depend on the resident’s needs and career objectives. This may range from literature review to publication to public health issues.
• Also, rural/community medicine exposure for all residents through rotational experience with the local community health center, Public Health Department and rural inpatient, to name a few.

Call:
1st Year: Every fourth night.
2nd Year: Every fourth night.

Educational Perks:

Malpractice, disability and life insurance are available for residents at no cost by the sponsoring institution. Health insurance covering residents and dependents is also available. There are several plans to choose from at varying cost per plan.

All residents receive 3 weeks vacation and one week educational time. A $1,000 education stipend is provided in each year of residency. In addition, funds for travel to a meeting at which a resident is presenting a paper, or for an approved special topic, are usually available.

Lab coats and name tags are provided at no cost to the resident.

Residents receive a meal discount at Memorial Medical Center and St. John’s Hospital and free meals when on call in either hospital.

Hospital Highlights:

The SIU Center for Family Medicine is the heart of our training program. The Center is located in a “neighborhood setting”, ideally situated within walking distance of SIU School of Medicine, and the program’s two affiliated hospitals; Memorial Medical Center and St. John’s Hospital. At over 30,000 sq. feet, the Center has allowed us to enhance and improve our clinical services and teaching facilities. The Center has thirty exam rooms, including a walk-in urgent care clinic for our established patients. Every exam room is equipped with a computer for access of our electronic medical records during the patient visit. There are two procedure suites equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, allowing residents the capability of performing a number of different types of procedures. Teaching space includes a large classroom for weekly resident conferences, a conference room set up for telemedicine conferencing, and faculty supervision space adjacent to the resident office space. Each resident has their own individual area in a spacious residency office which is located adjacent to the resident clinical space. The residency office also has computers and a library available for residents to utilize.

Within the Center for Family Medicine, close supervision by dedicated faculty ensures that each resident receives necessary help and guidance. Daily feedback is provided in a positive, creative, constructive manner. The resident will use the resources connected to the Center to investigate, analyze and integrate the solution for each patient’s problem. The emphasis is on the Family Physician as the problem solver and the orchestrator/manager of all the resources available and needed. The Center facilitates our emphasis on continuous, comprehensive care that can be delivered effectively within the changing health care environment.

Both Memorial Medical Center and St. John’s Hospital are utilized in our program. Memorial Medical Center is a 431 bed, private, not-for-profit corporation founded in 1897. It is the flagship of the Memorial Health System with specialty programs that include: The Heart Center, Regional Cancer Center, Center for Neuromuscular Sciences, Psychiatric Services, and Regional Burn Center. Outpatient services include: day surgery, comprehensive diagnostic services, outpatient rehabilitation, and the new Koke Mill urgent care facility.

St. John’s Hospital, a fully accredited, voluntary general hospital, founded in 1875, is one of twelve hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin, which form the Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS). More than 2,500 infants are born each year at St. John’s. As a level II Perinatal Center, St. John’s provides a complete program of maternal and infant care, including a fetal evaluation laboratory, 10 bed ante-natal unit, and a 35 bed High Risk Neonatal Center. St. John’s also houses the highly regarded Prairie Heart Institute with a full range of cardiology and cardiac surgery specialists who serve all of central and southern Illinois. The hospital has a 26 bed adult ICU, a 69 bed cardiopulmonary unit, a 27 bed oncology and pain management unit, a ten bed hospice, and a 49 bed psychiatric unit.

Facts & Figures:

Following are general statistics about the training hospital.

City Profile:

As Illinois’capital city, Springfield is a hub of government action, business activity, arts and cultural affairs. With a population of over 112,000, Springfield offers a great business climate, an expanding medical community, superb public services, and friendly, caring neighborhoods. We think you will agree that Springfield is a wonderful place to visit, work and live.

We are home of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, which opened in 2007. It is a must-see for Civil War buffs and anyone interested in the Life of our 16th President.

Other Perks:

Housing, transportation assistance, meal vouchers, concierge services, child care, moving assistance, other assistances provided to the intern/resident/fellows and/or spouse/child.

Overview of the Program:

The faculty at the SIU Springfield Family Medicine Residency Program believes our obligation is to provide each resident with the skills needed to be a leader during this time of health care evolution. The curriculum is designed to prepare physicians to provide quality care to families and at the same time deal effectively with the business enterprise of health care. Further, the curriculum is designed to meet individual needs and interests of the resident within the framework of an accredited Family Medicine Residency.

The SIU Springfield Family Medicine Residency is a program of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, and receives many benefits from the medical school linkage. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in innovative medical education. The Department of Family and Community Medicine has been recognized consistently for its success in attracting medical students to the specialty of Family Medicine.

The SIU Springfield Family Medicine Residency is an established program that has educated over one hundred seventy five family physicians since the first resident graduated in 1975. The emphasis on health care reform has provided the program with many additional resources and opportunities. Learning opportunities in a network of hospitals and clinical practices include a longitudinal focus on Obstetrics with additional training being offered as an optional track; a rural medicine experience consisting of a month-long rural medicine rotation including the Mobile Medical Unit; an OB and Pediatric experience in Macoupin County as well as an extensive rural procedures elective; opportunities in Sports Medicine involving two state-of-the-art Sports Medicine facilities in Springfield; and a well-designed Geriatrics curriculum.

Dual Program Accreditation for Osteopathic Residents:

The Springfield Family Medicine Residency is dually accredited with the American Board of Family Practice and the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. The Osteopathic program in Springfield is associated with the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine’s OPTIK program.

With an emphasis on community-based family medicine, the program ensures that residents receive excellent primary care training. COMLEX scores are accepted in the application process. The curriculum is identical, with two exceptions in the first year: Internal Medicine replaces one of the Family Medicine months and Emergency Medicine moves from the second year to the first, switching with one of the outpatient rotations.

For More Information, Contact:
Harald Lausen, D.O.
Director of Osteopathic Medical Education
SIU Illinois University School of Medicine
Springfield Family Medicine Residency Program
913 Rutledge Street,
P.O. Box 19671
Springfield, IL 62794-9670

Melaney Hughes
Residency Coordinator
SIU Illinois University School of Medicine
Springfield Family Medicine Residency Program
913 Rutledge Street
P.O. Box 19670
Springfield, IL 62794-9670
(217) 757-8197
mhughes@siumed.edu

Updated 2011

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