We are affiliated with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and Methodist Medical Center of Central Illinois. The Residents in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology spend 90 percent of their time in OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, a tertiary medical center. Ten percent of their time is spent at Methodist Medical Center and Proctor Hospital, depending on service requirements of gynecologic oncology and reproductive endocrinology.

The Department has approximately 30 part-time faculty members in general obstetrics and gynecology as well as pathology, radiation oncology and anesthesia. We currently are approved for eight residents, two per year. Our residents spend time in general obstetrics and gynecology, gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, reproductive endocrinology including ART (advanced reproductive technologies), as well as urogynecology with practicing urologists in their office and surgery. Residents are also assigned a panel of patients in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Continuity Clinic that they follow throughout their four years of training.

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center is a major site for the clinical training of third and fourth year medical students of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. The OB/GYN residents play a major role in the supervision and training of these students. Medical students spend eight weeks of their third year on the obstetrics and gynecology clerkship rotation. The clerkship includes didactic lectures, teaching rounds, and rotations with assigned attending physicians in general gynecology, obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine. The Department also offers an eight-week obstetrics and gynecology clerkship in the Bloomington area for one third year student on each of the eight-week rotations.

Four-week electives in benign operative gynecology, gynecologic oncology, labor and delivery obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility are offered to medical students in their fourth year.

Research is an integral part of training of residents, and is required for graduation from the residency program. There are many opportunities to participate in research activities in the department. The University of Illinois College of Medicine holds a combined research day for all residents to present their research.