More than 200 medical students rotate through the hospital for clinical clerkships. Residents also spend time in private offices of faculty physicians who practice in the city and in surrounding suburbs. Pediatric residents have rotations in the emergency department at Children's Memorial and in the neonatal units at Evanston Hospital and Prentice Women's Hospital and Maternity Center of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Children's plays the leadership role in the Chicago metropolitan area in the regionalization of pediatric health care and assumes an important role in meeting the health care needs of many medically indigent children . It is intended to maximize the program's academic rigors and to ensure that each resident thrives and benefits in this environment.
Primary care is a critical component of the experience.
More than half of our graduates enter primary care fields upon completion of residency training. Others enter fellowship training and are regularly accepted by the best fellowship programs in the nation. Only proposed changes that fulfill this mandate will be approved. Furthermore, we pride ourselves on a tradition of camaraderie. For the last two decades, the residents and faculty in our program have created an environment with the paramount goal of building optimal working relationships.