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To get to know more about our residents and program, please visit our exclusively resident ran Facebook and Instagram pages.

To get to know more about our residents and program, please visit our exclusively resident ran Facebook and Instagram pages.

While clinical experiences guide the majority of learning that occurs during residency, a structured didactic curriculum supplements this learning and ensures that all residents are exposed to a shared core of educational topics. The residency program didactics will occur weekly on Wednesdays, from 12:30-4:00pm and on the last Friday of each block from 12:00-1:00pm. Lunch will be provided for all didactic sessions. These sessions will be taught by residency faculty, outside experts or consultants, and peers. All residents will present at least yearly in semi-formal presentations (QI reports

Class of 2021 Elias “Bubba” Trace | Rebecca Tracy | James Hart | Joel Gieswein | Dominic Phemister | Arthur Chou | Nida Feller | Jase Camp Class of 2022 Ferris Yeh | Brandon Chambers | Jennifer Butler | Dylan Graff | Maham Munawar | Drew Frey | Zach Elliott | Tyler Pickell Class of 2023 Jennifer Becker | Ryan Brown | Gary Hendricks | Aaron Fleming | Sarah Iqbal | Evan Jenkins | Jill Nanadiego | Aaron Rea Class of 2021 Elias "Bubba" Trace Hometown: Jacksonville, IL Undergrad: Millikin University Med school: SIU School of Medicine Hobbies/interests: Hunting, fitness, home improvement, playing

Autumn Bohac of Effingham was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was 16 years old. Now a 29-year-old mother of four, her health care journey reveals the everyday anxiety and pain that rural patients feel. Autumn lives just a few blocks away from her town’s hospital. However, specialty care teams she has needed to manage her diabetes and four high-risk pregnancies have always been almost two hours away. With her first two pregnancies, seeing a specialist required 1.5 hours of travel. However, during her 3rd and 4th pregnancies, she was able to use telehealth for appointments with SIU

Instead of renting a wheelchair-accessible vehicle, driving two hours and risking exposure to COVID-19, the Hall family from Tuscola, Illinois jumped at the chance to have a telehealth visit with an SIU Medicine surgeon. Suffering from multiple sclerosis, Vicki Hall often makes the painful trip to see her various doctors in Central Illinois, including the trek to Springfield to see several of her SIU Medicine doctors. In January 2018, she was also diagnosed with esophageal cancer. After radiation treatments, her cancer is now in remission, but she struggles to swallow. To see if she’s a

The SIU Alton Family Medicine Residency Program is happy to offer some upcoming residency program informational sessions via Webex. Please join Program Director, Dr. M. Rebecca Hoffman, and Program Coordinator, Alison Witcher, for these 30-minute sessions to get your questions answered! Each session with begin with a short presentation of general program information and we will then open the session to attendees for questions. Please note that these sessions are not practice interview opportunities . Be prepared to arrive to the session(s) of your choice on time to ensure you hear the entire

Our mission Achieve excellent patient outcomes by delivering personalized care in a compassionate environment. Elevate urologic health care to a higher level by finding ways to prevent diseases and the progression of existing ones. Improve the lives and health of people residing in the portions of our state by community outreach and education. Enhance the nation's health care system by educating medical and graduate students, residents, fellows and physicians through teaching and continuing education. Expand the frontiers of science by fostering groundbreaking research and converting research