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Mission To provide comprehensive, patient-centered compassionate addiction care to the people of Central and Southern Illinois, through education, service, research, and community partnership. Program Goals Combine clinical experience and didactics to facilitate the fellow’s development of skills and knowledge in accordance with the ACGME competency-based objectives and milestones. Overall aims include: Understand the ethical basis of addiction medicine practice. Enhance skills in critical thinking and apply them to clinical practice. Understand the neurobiology of substance use, misuse

The SIU Alton Family Medicine Residency Program is happy to offer some additional 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

Background: Cancer disparities in the United States exist among distinct community populations most notably categorized by geography, income level, and race/ethnicity, where higher cancer risk and worse outcomes persist. Although poverty is often associated with health disparities, impoverished rural communities are often overlooked and underrepresented in research studies, even in the most economically distressed areas in the nation. Rural counties frequently have worse cancer outcomes, and are Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). Rural

Adjunct Faculty Sarah S. Fowler, MD Philip Garcia, MD Nathan D. Joos, MD Xinyan Huang, MD, PhD Harrison C. Putman III, M.D., F.A.C.S.

The Center for Clinical Research was established to increase clinical and translational research infrastructure, capacity and productivity. A centralized administrative infrastructure is an efficient and responsive means to provide clinical research support, and in turn: Provides shared services that are difficult to establish and maintain by individual investigators Creates a central point of contact for investigators Improves compliance and quality Produces economy of effort Saves overall costs The central concept of the CCR is to support faculty and their research teams using a flexible

The Admissions Committee makes all final decisions on applications. The Committee is comprised of more than 20 members, including clinical and basic science faculty, medical students and medical residents. Committee members represent SIU locations in Springfield, Carbondale, Quincy and Decatur. All final admissions decisions are communicated via U.S. postal mail. Below are examples of admissions decisions and what they mean to the applicant. Accept – Congratulations! You have been offered a seat in the upcoming class. You may reserve your place by submitting a $100 enrollment deposit within