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.

Educational Conferences
Below are the educational conferences that are provided throughout the year.

Weekly	Monthly	Quarterly	Yearly
Current Publication Review (CPR)	Nursing Home Rounds	Family Medicine Board Review	Sleep Deprivation
Chart Rounds	Resident Meetings	GeriaticTopics	Resident Fatigue and Patient Safety
Didactic (1/2 day) Scheduled Topics: Journal Club Morbidity and Mortality Assigned Core Topics Balint Group EBM Outpatient EBM Inpatient Faculty/Community Physican Presentations	Challenger Modules	Sports Medicine Topics	Ethics Training
		EMR Training
		Practice Management

 

 

	FIRST YEAR Family Medicine Center 2 half days per week (50 assigned families) Emergency Department 1 block Family Medicine Service (Inpatient) 6 blocks Gynecology 1 block Peds (Inpatient) 2 blocks General Surgery 1 block Cardiology (Marion VA) 1 block Family Medicine Orientation 1 block
	SECOND YEAR Family Medicine Center 3 half days per week (100 assigned families)   Obstetrics 1 block Family Medicine Service (Inpatient) 3 blocks Pediatrics (Outpatient) 2 blocks Ambulatory Care and Pracice Management 2 blocks General Surgery and Opthalmology 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 Family Medicine Preceptorship and Practice Management 1 block
	THIRD YEAR Family Medicine Center 4 half days per week in Family Medicine Clinic 150 assigned families   Ambulatory Care and Pracice Management 2 blocks Dermotology and Practice Management 1 block Emergency Department (Herrin) 1 block Family Medicine Service 3 blocks Electives 6 blocks       AVAILABLE ELECTIVES   Plastic Surgery   Anesthesiology   Endocrinology   Pathology   Physiotherapy   Sports Medicine   Radiology   Nuclear Medicine   Health Service   Neurosurgery   Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery   Other advanced medical and surgical subspecialties as approved