The University of Chicago Medical Center

This year, U.S. News & World Report has named the University of Chicago Hospitals to its prestigious "Honor Roll" of the nation's best hospitals. The University of Chicago has earned the highest overall ranking for any medical center in Illinois and ranked among the nation's top ten centers for cancer, endocrinology, and gastroenterology, and among the top 25 centers nationwide in nephrology, geriatrics, endocrinology, pulmonology, and rheumatology.

More than 1400 patients come to the University of Chicago's outpatient clinics and hospitals each day for care that includes routine diagnostic tests, minor surgery, intense emergency treatments, and highly technical, specialized procedures. This range of primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary care offers residents a variety of learning experiences and constant challenges. While this mixture of complex and routine health care is available to patients primarily from the greater Chicago area and the Midwest region, patients from all over the world are referred here.

Bernard Mitchell Hospital, dedicated in 1983, is the Medical Center's primary adult inpatient care facility. Outpatient care is delivered by more than 100 clinics located at the Medical Center as well as at a variety of sites throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. In 1996 the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine opened and catapulted the University of Chicago Medical Center into the 21st century. With over 500,000 square feet and extensive diagnostic and treatment equipment, this state-of-the-art center welcomes nearly 200,000 outpatient visits each year. Services are organized around organ systems or disease, instead of academic departments, thereby increasing opportunities for formal and informal consultation. For example, the cardiology and cardiac surgery clinics are adjacent to one another, with related diagnostic and treatment services located on the same floor. Within each clinic there is a work area and conference space for teaching.

The Medical Center operates several highly regarded regional treatment and research centers, including the Cancer Research Center, a Diabetes Research and Training Center, a Special Center for Research in Lipoproteins and Vascular Disease, a Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, a Clinical Research Center, a Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Kidney Stones, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

More information on the University of Chicago Hospitals is available at:
http://www.uchospitals.edu

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Medical residents gain additional experiences in general internal medicine at this 427-bed hospital in Chicago's western suburbs. Most residents spend two total months of training at this hospital. Elective rotations may also be arranged. Dr. Kathy Tynus is the Academic Director of Internal Medicine.

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