Residency Program | Supervision | Settings and Populations | Psychotherapeutic Interventions | Educational Programs
 Clinical Rotations | Research Opportunities | Internal Medicine - Psychiatry | General Information | 2009-10 Match Requirements
 

The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program offers a fully accredited, four-year, eclectic
experience in community-based psychiatry. Education and training emphasizes integrated approaches by providing extensive exposure to both biological and psychological models, as well as multi-specialty based healthcare.

A hallmark of our program is that each resident can expect to have a close working relationship with faculty. Extensive, one-on-one supervision is provided each year. As importantly, education and training encompasses a broad range of settings and clinical populations.

An unusual feature of our program is that residents are introduced to psychotherapeutic interventions in their first year. Progressive clinical experience and responsibility is encouraged and directly supported by educational programs and specialized clinical supervision.

Educational programs are given high priority. Regularly scheduled seminars and case conferences are timed to augment clinical rotations. Scholarly activities also address current practice issues through our year-round series of resident conferences and faculty presentations. Research opportunities are provided to all residents and include clinical and basic science areas related to psychiatry in the dementias, clinical psychopharmacology, developmental disabilities, electroconvulsive therapy, and medical education.

SIU School of Medicine also offers a five-year, combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry residency training program that leads to eligibility for Board certification in bothspecialties.

Supervision

Direct, group, and individual supervision is provided to psychiatric residents throughout the duration of the residency training. In addition to direct supervision with clinical rotation supervisors, residents meet for at least two hours weekly with training faculty for direct supervision as part of their ongoing participation in the Psychiatry Department's Outpatient Clinic. Two types of outpatient supervision are provided: faculty psychiatrists provide direct medication management and combined psychopharmacology and psychotherapy supervision, and allied mental health and psychiatric faculty provide direct, individual psychotherapy supervision. Videotaped sessions and direct video monitoring are frequently used modalities to enhance the supervisory process. Supervisors are rotated annually or semiannually, offering residents a balance of continuity and diversity in their educational experience.

Settings and Population

Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center:
Located near SIU Carbondale campus, in Anna, this public hospital is the primary provider of inpatient psychiatric care in Southern Illinois. Residents work closely with a team of faculty members to provide care to patients of all ages, and are exposed to an unusually rich mix of acute and chronic disorders.

Community Support Network:
This specialized community program provides extensive outpatient psychiatric services and social support to those who have chronic mental disorders. Residents work with the medical director, case managers, nursing staff, and other mental health professionals to collaboratively maintain needed continuity of care.

Locust Street Resource Center:
Located in nearby Carlinville, this rural center provides a broad range of mental health services. Residents provide psychiatric evaluation and treatment, as well as consultation to professional staff and community physicians.

McFarland Mental Health Center:
This mental health hospital is a large inpatient facility operated by the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. It is located on nearly 100 acres in south Springfield, and its catchment area spans central Illinois counties. Rotations emphasize multi-specialty team leadership and psychiatric care for adult and child and adolescent patients with acute and chronic disorders.

Memorial Medical Center:
This private hospital is a 520-bed tertiary care facility providing inpatient and outpatient services to the population of central and southern Illinois. It is a regional referral center in several clinical areas, including cancer and cardiac care, neuromuscular rehabilitation, renal dialysis and transplantation, trauma, and burns. Psychiatric and behavioral health services emphasize multidisciplinary inpatient treatment teams, partial hospitalization, and outpatient care through hospital-based programs and community-based mental health centers.

St. John's Hospital:
This general hospital is a 600 -bed tertiary care facility providing inpatient and outpatient services to the population of central and southern Illinois. It is a regional referral center in several clinical areas, including cardiac care, high-risk prenatal and neonatal care, trauma, inpatient hospice, and emergency medicine. Psychiatric and behavioral health services include adult inpatient and geriatric inpatient psychiatric care.

SIU-SOM Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic:
The Department's outpatient service is designed to provide general psychiatric care to the regional population with a range of services including psychopharmacological management, psychotherapy, group therapy, Assertive Community Treatment, Telepsychiatry consultation, and diagnostic evaluation and treatment planning. Child and Adolescent psychiatric care is provided at an affiliated SIU outpatient facility, Noll Medical Pavilion.

Jacksonville Development Center
This facility is located in Jacksonville, Illinois, 45 minutes from Springfield’s school of medicine campus. It has 265 adult clients with developmental disabilities housed in 5 residential buildings in a 60 acre area. The facility offers residential services but also vocational and educational services as well as a supported employment program. The population derives from the state of Illinois and includes all ethnicities of ages 18 through 85 years. General psychiatry residents attend behavioral management committee meetings and rotate through neurology and primary care clinics. The staff includes 3 full-time physicians, a medical director, a psychiatrist, psychologists, registered and licensed practical nurses, social workers, QMRP’s, speech and language therapists, and a consulting neurologist and orthopedic surgeon. The facility has teleconferencing available for scholarly communications and conferences with several other facilities including the SIU Department of Psychiatry.

SIU-SOM Special Needs Clinic:
Through weekly clinics, the Department of Psychiatry's Division of Developmental Disabilities provides psychiatric care and related support services to individuals who have a primary diagnosis involving Mental Retardation. Multidisciplinary teams are used to individualize care and obtain needed social services.

Psychotherapeutic Interventions

Training and experience in providing both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy is an integral part of the training program. It is directly and continuously supported by seminars, case conferences, and direct, individual supervision. An eclectic approach is used to promote professional versatility. Residents are exposed to a range of strategies and techniques, including supportive, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and other evidence-based psychotherapeutic practices. Residents complete training to the point of competency in supportive, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Training and experience emphasize the expertise needed in current psychiatric practice, whether as the primary provider, student of further training, a member of a multi-specialty team, or a referring professional.

Education Programs

The formal educational curriculum features regularly scheduled seminars, case conferences, and presentations that run throughout the year. Seminars follow a format that can be lecture based, experiential, or resident directed in keeping with the educational approach of the school and of the department that active learning is most effective, and that all of us are lifelong learners. In addition, PGY-3 residents participate in a journal club, an evidence-based psychiatry case conference, a developmental disability psychiatry case conference, and a conference on religion and psychiatry each month. All residents are encouraged to attend special conferences and workshops that are periodically available within the Springfield area and financing is made available to residents for travel to and from national conferences. Residents participate each year in presenting at Grand Rounds to the department, school, and interested public.

SIU School of Medicine was one of the first programs in the country to institute a Universal Issues Curriculum for the residency training programs. This is an annual sequence of presentations open to faculty and residents in which residents of all specialties meet and learn about issues that are common to all specialties, such as ethics, medical economics, lifelong learning and teaching skills, and practice management.

Our core seminar series is designed and timed to support the residents' level of training and experience

Categorical Seminar Schedule (Excel spreadsheet)

Clinical Rotations

• Adult Inpatient - 10 months
• Outpatient Care - 12 months
• Adolescent Inpatient - 2 months
• Neurology - 2 months
• Community Psychiatry - 3 months
• Primary Care - 6 months
• Consultation/Liaison - 3 months
• Substance Abuse - 1 month
• Electives - 8 months
• Developmental Disabilities - 1 month

Primary Care
PGY-1 Residents are required to rotate through six months on one or a combination of family medicine, internal medicine, or pediatric services.
Residents are supervised by faculty from the corresponding department and work with a resident and attending team learning the identification,
assessment, diagnosis, management, and continuity care, and further treatment planning for a range of acute and chronic medical conditions.
The rotations generally occur in each of the general hospitals, Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital, but may involve ambulatory care clinics held at other departmental sites. Residents take call duty with the service on which they are rotating.

Neurology
PGY-1 Residents are required to rotate through two months of inpatient adult neurology while being supervised by faculty from the Department of Neurology and participating in the care of patients with a variety of neurological acuity. Residents generally spend one month on the inpatient neurology service at one of the general hospitals, Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital providing care to a general acute neurologically ill population, and one month on the Neurorehabilitation Service at Memorial Medical Center providing care to patients undergoing post-acute care for neurological conditions such as trauma, stroke, spinal injury or conditions, and neurodegenerative conditions. Residents are exposed to a range of conditions that are relevant to psychiatric differential diagnosis and which can form the border zone between psychiatry and neurology. Residents on the inpatient neurology service take call duty for the neurology service. Residents in neurology and psychiatry participate in a weekly interdisciplinary case conference in which selected cases from both services are discussed by faculty from a variety of perspectives.

Substance Abuse
PGY-1 Residents rotate through one month on the Substance Abuse Consultation service at Memorial Medical Center where they are trained in the evaluation, recognition, diagnosis, and treatment planning of inpatients with substance abuse, dependence, withdrawal, and substance related disorders on the psychiatric, medical, and surgical services. Residents are also trained in motivational interviewing techniques. Supervision is provided by chemical dependency counselors who serve as adjunct faculty in the psychiatry department.

Adult Inpatient Psychiatry
The Adult Inpatient Psychiatry rotations take place on the acute psychiatric units of the two general hospitals in Springfield, Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital, and on the acute unit of a free standing state-operated psychiatric hospital, Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center. The patient population on all three units varies in ages from 18 and upward and includes patients with a wide range of mood, anxiety, psychotic, substance related, personality disorders, behavioral and psychiatric disorders associated with various dementing illnesses, and other mental disorders due to general medical conditions. Residents gain experience in the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, and medical management of psychiatric and co-morbid medical disorders. In addition, residents rotating at the two general hospitals interact often with other medical and surgical services to provide integrated care. Residents regularly interact with allied healthcare staff such as nurses, social workers, case managers, and mental health technicians. PGY-1 residents spend three months and PGY-2 residents spend six months on Adult Inpatient Psychiatry rotations. During the PGY-4, residents spend an additional one month on the Adult Inpatient Psychiatry service in the role of chief inpatient resident. To enhance the educational and training experience, resident caseloads are capped at 7 patients
during their Adult Inpatient Psychiatry rotations. Supervision is provided on each rotation by psychiatry department faculty. Medical students participate regularly on the inpatient team.

Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry
Residents rotate for one month during the PGY-2 and one month during the PGY-4 on the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry unit located at McFarland Mental Health Center. The patient age range is from 10 to 17 years and is drawn from a large area of central and southern Illinois. Psychopathology includes mood disorders, attention deficit with hyperactivity
disorder, psychotic disorders, conduct and oppositional-defiant disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, and others. Supervision is provided by faculty from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division in the psychiatry department. Residents interact frequently with allied staff and services and are exposed to family evaluation and therapy, forensic issues, group therapy, individual
evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment planning all within the context of a multi-disciplinary treatment team approach. Medical students participate regularly on the inpatient team.

Community Psychiatry
During the PGY-2, residents spend three months on the Community Psychiatry rotation, two weeks of which is spent in the Center for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders. For two and a half months, residents rotate through the Community Support Network, an Assertive Community Treatment model of care for severe and chronic mental disorders. Residents participate in medication management clinics, home visits, and team meetings and are supervised by the medical director, a department of psychiatry faculty member. This model of care delivers wrap-around case management, nursing, and psychiatric services to patients with diagnoses including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, substance abuse and dependence, and personality disorders. Patients who are psychiatrically hospitalized are cared for by the faculty-resident team to provide continuity of care. Also during the Community Psychiatry rotation, residents attend and participate in a clinic for the developmentally disabled population with concomitant psychiatric disorders for one day each week where they are supervised by a faculty from the Developmental Disabilities Division of the psychiatry department.

Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry
Residents rotate on the Consultation/Liaison service providing psychiatric consultation to non-psychiatric medical and surgical services in both of the general hospitals, Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital, during the business day. PGY-2 residents spend two months on this service and PGY-4 residents spend one month on the service. Supervision is provided
by faculty from the medicine-psychiatry division in the Department of Internal Medicine. Resident see a variety of psychiatric problems including delirium, dementias, mental disorders due to a general medical condition, substance related disorders, adjustment disorders, personality disorders, psychological conditions affecting medical disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, evaluations of decisional capacity, and suicide attempts. Residents are trained in evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up care in psychiatric consultation.

Outpatient Psychiatry
Residents in the PGY-3 year rotate through 12 months of Outpatient Psychiatry in a variety of clinics including forensic, geriatric, child and adolescent, rural mental health care, and new patient evaluation. In addition, residents follow their own caseload of patients for psychotherapy and psychopharmacological management. Direct supervision occurs through the specific attending supervisor for each clinic. Residents also receive two hours of individual supervision each week by a clinical supervisor and a psychotherapy supervisor.

Developmental Disabilities Psychiatry
PGY-4 Residents rotate for one month at Jacksonville Development Center, a state operated developmental disabilities facility for adults with mental retardation and behavioral and psychiatric disorders. Residents are supervised by two attending psychiatrists from the psychiatry department's Division of Developmental Disabilities in the evaluation, diagnosis, behavioral, medical, and psychopharmacological management of a wide range of behavioral presentations. Residents also participate in behavioral committee meetings and work with allied staff in the analysis of behavioral data and intervention planning.

Electives
PGY-4 Residents have eight months of electives that can include further inpatient adult or child and adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, research, rural or state operated facility inpatient psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, outpatient chief resident, ECT, psychopharmacology, Consultation/Liaison, and a variety of other electives that can include time at other institutions for special training experiences or research. Residents continue to work with faculty supervisors throughout this period.

Research Opportunities

Resident Research Training
All residents participate in research within the department of psychiatry. This includes research in a range of areas including psychotherapy, dementias, developmental disabilities psychiatry, psychopharmacology, epidemiology, and medical education. There are a wide variety of research opportunities for residents throughout all four years of training. Residents may collaborate
with others on ongoing projects in the Department or they may choose an individual research project which can be begun early in their residency and completed before graduation. All residents undergo training through the Springfield Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects (SCRIHS), an academically affiliated Institutional Review Board. A research track is available for selected residents.

Residency Research Experiences
Residents may wish to pursue career development in basic research or as a clinician investigator. Because of this range of interests, research opportunities are tailored within the individual resident's program. All residents are required to attend the Research Seminar and to select and meet regularly with a faculty mentor for research. Resident progress in research is aided by the coordination efforts of the psychiatry department research nurse who monitors resident project development and SCRIHS
training. All residents are encouraged to attend and present their research at national meetings and conferences.

Introduction to Research in Psychiatry Seminar

Objectives:
To become acquainted with essential steps of the research endeavor such as experimental design, literature searching, establishing patient contact, developingrapport and obtaining informed consent for research activities, scientific communication,
and ethical considerations, residents participate in an 8 week seminar during their PGY-3 given by faculty experienced in federally funded research.

Research Track

Schedule:
Beginning in the PGY-2, selected research track residents spend two afternoons per month developing and conducting a research study under faculty supervision. This involves at least two hours of individual research supervision per month with a faculty mentor. This research track time period begins with a literature review, and includes:

1. Write-up of the study and its methods
2. Completion of SCRIHS forms
3. Conduct of the method
4. Data gathering
5. Data analysis
6. Discussion write-up
7. Submission for publication or presentation

Since some studies can be completed in one year (such as cross-sectional surveys), and others may require more time, planning with the faculty mentor of the length and timing of the research project will be undertaken early in the track to incorporate the research track resident schedule, interests, need to use extra-mural resources and travel, and background level with which they
are entering the research field.

Selection:
Residents who are interested in pursuing the research track should make this interest known during the first nine months of their PGY-1, although consideration will be given to those deciding as late as during the first three months of the PGY-2. Residents will be considered and accepted into the research track based on successful completion of the PGY-1 rotations and didactic courses and after obtaining a faculty research mentor. Continuation in the research track will be contingent upon the maintenance of a
satisfactory to outstanding academic record, continued successful completion of the ongoing clinical rotations, continued timely progress in the achievement of specific therapy competencies, continued satisfactory progress in the research track as evaluated by the faculty mentor, and the continued desire on the part of the resident.

Goals:

1. Understanding the nature of ordinary clinical research in psychiatry such as common strengths, weaknesses, biases, errors, difficulties, and generalizability.
2. Developing basic problem-solving skills to interpret the medical and psychiatric clinical research literature, to collaborate in a clinical trial, to report instructive cases or small studies in medical journals or at national meetings, and to be able to collaborate in the development of an original research protocol.
3. Developing basic skills in designing and conducting small clinical research studies, and in collaborating on large clinical research studies.
4. Preparing for a career in academic psychiatry through familiarity with trends in research, the work of several clinical research scholars, and potential areas for new research and development.

Objectives:

1. By collaborating with a faculty supervisor on an original scholarly research project the resident will develop skills in:
   1. Generating research study goals, objectives, and hypotheses
   2. Conducting basic hypothesis testing (i.e., statistical analysis)
   3. Interpreting the analysis of original data
   4. Presenting original results
   5. Collaborating with other researchers including other residents depending on the size of the study.

2. By attending and interacting in research supervision, by supervised study, and by participating in research-oriented seminars and conferences, the resident will learn:
   1. The basic character of scholarly clinical research
   2. The nature of evidence and its relationship to scientific research
   3. The nature of the clinical research business and roles within it
   4. The meaning of statistical testing and statistical significance
   5. Some basic methods of statistical testing
   6. The place of publishing qualitative scholarship such as reviews and case reports
   7. Expectations in the use of human subjects in research
   8. Common study designs in clinical research
   9. Common rating scales in psychiatric clinical research
   10. Subject selection bias.

Internal Medicine / Psychiatry - (medpsych website)

Division of Medicine Psychiatry

Medicine Psychiatry is a branch of medicine which provides care to the patients with problems at the interface of adult general medicine and adult psychiatry. Patients for whom we care, are afforded a high level of care that can encompass primary care delivery, psychiatric care or a combination of both.

Our goal is to provide and advance quality health care to patients with psychiatric, medical and combined illness while assisting in the improvement of skill and knowledge of the residents and students we teach.

General Information

GOAL:
The four year psychiatry residency is designed to prepare its graduates to pursue any of the possible career tracks of the psychiatrist from general psychiatry to subspecialization, and from private practice to academics.

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY FACULTY:
Twenty-eight faculty (full-time and part-time) and 75 volunteer faculty members.

AFFILIATED HOSPITALS:
St. John's Hospital (750 beds); Memorial Medical Center (600 beds); McFarland Mental Health Center (146 beds); The Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois, all located within Springfield and Jacksonville Development Center in Jacksonville, Illinois comprise the officially affiliated training sites for psychiatry residents.

TYPICAL SCHEDULE:

First Year Resident

• Primary Care: 6 months
• Adult Inpatient Psychiatry: 3 months
• Neurology: 2 months
• Substance Abuse: 1 month
• Acute Care Psychiatric Clinic: 4 months

Second Year Resident

• Adult Inpatient/Rural or Urban: 6 months
• Inpatient Electroconvulsive Therapy: 1 month
• Child and Adolescent Inpatient: 1 month
• Community Psychiatry: 2.5 months
• Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders: 2 weeks
• Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry: 2 months

Third Year Resident

• Outpatient Psychiatry: 12 months
  • Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic: 6 months
  • Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic: 6 months
  • Forensic Clinic
  • New Patient Evaluation and Disposition Conference

Fourth Year Resident

• Adult Inpatient Chief Resident: 1 month
• Child and Adolescent Inpatient: 1 month
• Developmental Disabilities Psychiatry: 1 month
• Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry: 1 month
• Electives: 8 months

CALL:
Psychiatry residents, while rotating on psychiatric services, cover the inpatient psychiatric services, the emergency departments, seclusion and restraint evaluations, and emergent consultation-liaison requests during the on-call period. Residents work in concert with the emergency department staff and the Psychiatric Response Team (PRT) personnel to provide psychiatric consultation and management routinely until11:00pm each night. Psychiatry residents take call from home but there are call rooms available within the affiliated general hospitals for those residents wishing to stay there.

First Year:

• Primary Care/Neurology: 6-8 nights per month
• Psychiatry call from home: 6 nights per month

Second Year:

• Psychiatry call from home: 5 nights per month

Third Year:

• Psychiatry call from home: 4 nights per month

Fourth Year:

• No call

Meals are provided free of charge for all residents on in-house call.

POSITIONS OFFERED:
Three categorical positions are offered each resident year. Please contact the Residency Office for further information. The number is 217-545-7627.

COMBINED PROGRAMS:
The Department of Psychiatry in combination with the Department of Internal Medicine offers an accredited program in Medicine-Psychiatry (5 years). For more information, contact the Residency Office at 217-545-4234.

PATIENT POPULATION:
Primary service area - Springfield and vicinity (population 160,000)
Referral area - Central and Southern Illinois (population (2,000,000)
Residents care for patients from all socioeconomic, racial, gender, and age groups

THERE IS NO SCUT WORK!
Ward clerks, lab techs (phlebotomists), ECG techs, respiratory therapists, X-ray transporters, and other ancillary personnel are available 24 hours per day. Nurses start all peripheral IV lines.

DIDACTICS:
Progressive, innovative, organized seminar curriculum
Grand Rounds, Resident Conferences, Journal Club, Case Conferences
Residents have active role in teaching medical students

ELECTIVES OFFERED:
Include chief residency, research, child and adolescent psychiatry, Alzheimer’s disease, developmental disabilities, geriatric psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, psychiatric education, and others, as well as most subspecialties in medicine, neurology, or pediatrics.

LIBRARY FACILITIES:
SIU School of Medicine Library; open 90 hours/week. Affiliated Hospital Libraries available 24 hours per day. Photocopying; Interlibrary Loans; Medline search, MDConsult, On-Line eBooks, Electronic Journals, computer terminal access, hardcopy magazine, journal, book, videotape and audiotape loans are available. Each resident conference room within the general hospitals has a library of useful reference texts on Emergency Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Psychopharmacology, Neurology, and Psychiatry. The resident workroom has it’s own library of various journals and texts and the departmental library boasts hundreds of texts and current journal collections in the field of medicine, forensic psychiatry, community psychiatry, general psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry. The department site provides wireless internet and intranet services.

2008-2009 SALARIES

• PGY I: $46,200.00
• PGY II: $46,700.00
• PGY III: $47,393.00
• PGY IV: $49,162.00
• PGY V: $51,534.00

BENEFITS:

• Health insurance is available at a minimal charge; optional family plan can be purchased.
• Dental coverage is provided for the resident and family at a small fee.
• Basic life insurance is provided at no cost; additional coverage may be purchased.
• Basic disability insurance is provided at no cost; additional disability insurance is available.
• Professional Liability insurance is provided through the employing hospital.

VACATION/EDUCATIONAL LEAVE:
All residents receive 21 calendar days of vacation and 7 calendar days of educational leave.

HOUSING:
There is a wide variety of affordable housing in all areas of town. Past arrangements made by SIU residents include apartment or house rental, and purchase of condominium or house.

SIU DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY REQUIRES AN INTERVIEW WITH ALL PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES.

2009 - 2010 Program Match Requirements

Thank you for your interest in the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry residency training program in Springfield, Illinois.

When reviewing applications, we look for USMLE (or COMLEX) scores of 80 or above. However, if your scores are lower than 80 and you have post-graduate training or experience in psychiatry, your application may still be considered. We require 3 letters of recommendation from physicians (at least two of which must be from a psychiatrist with whom you have worked clinically), Dean's letter, transcript and score reports. We do not sponsor H-1 visas. We accept applications only through ERAS, and our application deadline is October 31, 2009. We will be interviewing during the months of November through January.

We do not require U.S. clinical experience (although such experience may be preferred) and currently have no requirement regarding year of graduation. Step 1 and both parts of Step 2 of the USMLE (or COMLEX) must have been passed within the first two attempts.

For more information on anything listed above please contact the Residency Office at 217-545-7627.