The Rockford Family Practice Residency meets all the requirements of the American Council of Graduate Medical Education and offers a host of additional advantages.

The residency accentuates the cardinal principles of family medicine -- personal, familial and biopsychosocial care, conducted on a continuing basis. The affiliated institution, SwedishAmerican Hospital, allows for exceptional training and experience in the areas in which future family physicians need to have proficiency.

Family Practice is the only residency program in Rockford. Therefore the faculty of all disciplines in the medical school, affiliated hospital and community take a special pride and involvement in its success. Those residents who desire experience, responsibility and training, have enormous opportunities in this environment. Of highest importance to Rockford is a belief that family practice is a most stimulating and intellectually rigorous vocation and that it is one of the effective solutions to the current health care crisis.

Family medicine is founded on accepted scientific principles and aspires to the highest humanistic values. Family medicine physicians welcome life-long relationships with patients and families. These relationships are helpful both in diagnostic and therapeutic processes, enabling the physician to act more effectively as a health care manager, particularly in the area of preventive care and health promotion.

The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the College of Medicine at Rockford is committed to research as well. Residents are invited to pursue their interests in this area, should they so desire.

In all respects, the Family Practice Residency is designed to meet your needs in terms of education, financial considerations, workload and lifestyles. Since the first class of residents entered in 1972, the Family Practice Residency has been the only graduate medical education program in the city. The lack of competing programs affords our resident's tremendous responsibility and a wider variety of patients than other comparable programs.

The residency was established concurrently with the opening of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. The program has enjoyed continuous full accreditation by the American Council on Graduate Medical Education, accredited to the University of Illinois.

We update our program through the suggestions of residents, advice from faculty and trends in resident education.

Family Practice Residency Program Website