Ascension Saint Francis

General Surgery Residency

Who we are

The Ascension Saint Francis General Surgery Residency is a fully integrated training site of the Metropolitan Group Hospitals (MGH).

The Metropolitan Group Hospitals (MGH) Residency in General Surgery represents a unique approach to surgical training. Four excellent community teaching hospitals provide the setting for instruction. It is anchored by an academic affiliation with the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago and an association with the University of Illinois Hospitals. Because of its multi-hospital scope, the MGH Residency offers a broad base of clinical and operative experience. Residents have the rare opportunity of learning from a wide range of attending surgeons, benefiting from many perspectives on the art and science of surgery.

Why choose us?

Why choose Ascension Saint Francis for your general surgery residency? Three reasons: the hospitals where you’ll complete your residency, the research and educational opportunities available to you and the unparalleled valuable experience you’ll gain.

The hospitals

As an integrated training site in the Metropolitan Group Hospitals (MGH) residency program, Ascension Saint Francis offers general surgery residents rotational opportunities at each of the four MGH institutions. Whether working in simulation labs or with the ethnically and socioeconomically diverse populations of the MGH institutions, general surgery residents will be surrounded by leading surgical faculty and cutting edge technology.

Educational excellence

Every resident in an MGH program is expected to publish at least one paper, and research facilities across the Chicagoland area are available to support, including the animal laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

Additionally, general surgery residents receive an educational allowance for books, conferences and paper presentations. Other support facilities include classrooms and libraries with round-the-clock access to electronic books, journals and materials available through University of Illinois online library access.

Experiential learning

Over the course of the program, every resident will gain valuable experience with 900–1,100 major operations and outpatient clinic responsibilities at each MGH institution. They also work in trauma and surgical critical care at each institution.

Governance

The Metropolitan Group Hospitals Residency in General Surgery is administered by a residency governing board (the Surgical Joint Conference Committee, or SJCC) comprised of the chairpersons and directors of surgical education at the four MGH hospitals as well as the chairman of the department of surgery at Illinois Masonic Medical Center along with a few active members from each institution. The SJCC is responsible for planning educational programs, selection and assignment of residents, and resident appraisal and evaluation. Administration of the program within each institution is the responsibility of that hospital's chairman of surgery and director of surgical education.