The SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale offers its residents an unopposed residency staffed by full-time medical faculty in an up-to-date community hospital. Our graduates are well trained to practice anywhere, although our particular mission is to prepare our residents for smaller communities. There they may be asked to provide total obstetrical care, to resuscitate newborns, to assist at general surgery, and to manage in a humane and competent manner a range of family medicine problems.

The SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale, administered by Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, is associated with Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, a secondary-level community hospital serving Carbondale and the surrounding population. Some tertiary care is also provided here since the nearest university hospitals are in St. Louis, Missouri (100 miles away), and in Springfield, Illinois (180 miles away).

Graduate physicians entering the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale since its inception in 1974 have come from medical schools throughout the United States and abroad. Residents completing the program have entered a variety of practices, including solo and group practices, missionary work, and faculty positions at residency programs. The local region has a strong demand for family physicians; many residents have remained in Southern Illinois.

Program Curriculum
Required rotations for all residents are distributed throughout the three-year program. All residents who are not ACLS certified are required to complete this course within the first six months. Residents have weekly office hours in one or more of the family medicine centers and provide continuity of care to an assigned number of families. Residents also provide periodic teaching of physical exam skills to medical students. Second-year residents are also assigned to geriatric training that consists of following several nursing home patients monthly. The required 21 hours of lab training is available, which allows graduates to be directors of their own lab.

	FIRST YEAR Family Medicine Center 2 half days per week (50 assigned families) Emergency Medicine 1 block Family Medicine Service (Inpatient) 4 blocks Gynecology 1 block Obstetrics 2 blocks FPS Pediatrics 2 blocks General Surgery 2 blocks FP Orientation 1 block
	SECOND YEAR Family Medicine Center 3 half days per week (100 assigned families)   Obstetrics 1 block Cardiology (VA Hospital) 1 block Family Medicine Service (Inpatient) 2 blocks Pediatrics 2 blocks Pulm/Neph 1 block Neonatal ICU 1 block Orthopedics/Sports Medicine 2 blocks Elective (Faculty advisors will assist in subspecialties as approved choosing appropriate Internal Medicine rotation after reviewing evaluations and in-training exam scores.) 1 block Psychiatry and COPC 1 block Precept 1 block Additional AOA Requirements 1 block GYNE 2 blocks of ER
	THIRD YEAR Family Medicine Center 4 half days per week in Family Medicine Clinic 150 assigned families   Cardiology 1 block Ophthalmology/ENT 1 block Dermatology 1 block ER Herrin 1 block Family Medicine Service 2 blocks Electives 4 blocks & 1/2 block COPC 1 block PM CQI 1 block Urology 1/2 block       AVAILABLE ELECTIVES   OB/GYN - High Risk............................................................. (2 months) Plastic Surgery   Anesthesiology   Endocrinology   Pathology   Physiotherapy   Sports Medicine   Radiology   Nuclear Medicine   Health Service   Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery   Other advanced medical and surgical subspecialties as approved