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Family Medical Center
We are proud to have moved into our new family
medical center in fall 1998. The facility is located just 3
blocks from Methodist Hospital on the same grounds as the
University of Illinois
College of Medicine. The second floor
contains all of the administrative offices of the residency as
well as the Department of Family and Community Medicine from the
medical school. There is ample lecture and conference space,
as well as shared offices/workrooms for the residents.
Even more important, the large first floor
clinic is the combined office for our residency clinic and our
full-time faculty members' private practices. This makes more
faculty members immediately available for consultation during
office hours, in addition to the scheduled preceptors. It also
means that faculty can easily share procedures and relevant
patient findings from their practice with residents in the
clinic. We have our own laboratory and our own x-ray suite,
which offers residents the opportunity to view films immediately
and then learn from the radiologist's reading. Finally, the
building is set up with multiple computers for use of our
electronic medical record system, which has been in use for just
over a year.
Last year, the Family Medical Center (the
residents' clinic) had 15,543 patient visits. Approximately
1,500 of these visits were OB patient visits. At least one of
our preceptors is on duty at the Family Medical Center during
all hours of operation. A second preceptor acts as a supervisor
when you perform special procedures in the office.
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