SIU School of Medicine offers a three-year, ACGME-accredited Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship Program. We are approved to train up to nine fellows, accepting three new fellows each academic year. Applications are accepted exclusively through ERAS. Please note that the program does not sponsor H1B visas. We will participate in the 2025 National Fellowship Match, which opens on August 27, 2025, with an application deadline of August 31, 2025. For the 2026–2027 academic year, we will have three available positions. Interviews will be conducted in person on Fridays throughout September

This week SIU Alton Family Medicine Residency's own Dr. M. Rebecca Hoffman took over the local Alton airwaves to talk about our new program. Check it out! http://altondailynews.com/shared/inc/client/17/broadcastAudio/686180707…

Social media, here we come! SIU Alton Family Medicine Medicine Residency has a Facebook presence now too. Follow us for all the exciting details as we build our program! The SIU Family Medicine Residency Program in Alton's profile: https://www.facebook.com/siualtonfamilymedicine/

July 7, 2020, ALTON, IL ─ The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine has added a new residency program to begin serving patients within SIU Alton Family Medicine next summer. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the program in May. Physicians in the program will provide care through partnerships with Alton Memorial Hospital (a BJC HealthCare facility), Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in

July 7, 2020, ALTON, IL ─ The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine has added a new residency program to begin serving patients within SIU Alton Family Medicine next summer. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the program in May. Physicians in the program will provide care through partnerships with Alton Memorial Hospital (a BJC HealthCare facility), Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in

The SIU Alton Family Medicine Program now has an Instagram and will be posting lots of photos and information as we move along. Head over to www.instagram.com/siualtonfamilymedicine to follow us and watch our journey! Look for our Instagram logo:

SIU School of Medicine authors published 45 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. ( Display the 45 citations in PubMed

Uma Maduekwe, MD Undergrad: The University of Texas at Dallas Medical School: Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine Residency: Loyola University - General Surgery Loyola University - Plastic Surgery Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University/Shock Trauma Center at The University of Maryland - Craniofacial Surgery Why did you choose SIU Hand Fellowship? The main draw was the faculty with their reputation for being excellent 1-on-1 teachers and the camaraderie and esprit de corps that the program is known for. Also, the program makes available to the Hand Fellow a variety of resources

Mission To support education and research at SIU School of Medicine/Department of Surgery/Institute for Plastic Surgery in a meaningful way that drives learners to contribute to advancing science as learners become experts. The research laboratories in the Institute for Plastic Surgery are dedicated to providing research support including grant acquisition, project execution, and data synthesis for publication/presentation. We also provide microsurgical education to SIU School of Medicine medical students and residents. Research Staff Nicole Z. Sommer, MD Associate Professor, Residency Program