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It is well known that Children's Memorial and University of Chicago are excellent. I am wondering has any information on places like Rush, Loyola, UIC, or Hope (Advocate Christ).

None of these are stand-alone children's hospitals. Do they have facilities and support staff specfically for children, such as radiology, decor, child-life specialists, clinics, etc.? Do the sizes of these hospitals (range from 20-40 general inpatient beds, <10 PICU beds) impede upon the quality of training received? How is fellowship placement?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

 

[windycitygirl]

It is well known that Children's Memorial and University of Chicago are excellent. I am wondering has any information on places like Rush, Loyola, UIC, or Hope (Advocate Christ).

None of these are stand-alone children's hospitals. Do they have facilities and support staff specfically for children, such as radiology, decor, child-life specialists, clinics, etc.? Do the sizes of these hospitals (range from 20-40 general inpatient beds, <10 PICU beds) impede upon the quality of training received? How is fellowship placement?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Coming from Chicago, I can hopefully shed a little light for you:

1) Rush: Inpatient unit in the Rush University Hospital; low census compared to Christ/U of C/NU, but the residents seem happy. Located in Medical District next to Cook County and UIC. Fellowship placement was pretty good (they good to good institutions) and while the inpatient and outpatient units are smaller, it seems like they get good teaching. I don't know about pathology variety. Just got remodeled, so it is very pretty.

2) UIC: Inpatient unit in University hospital; several FMGs in program; not sure about fellowship placement but I know someone is going to Stanford for peds cardio or something like that this year. Patient census is not high comparatively. Rads is the main hospital service, I believe. Decor? Not beautiful, trust me. I did not rotate here and it does not have the best rep among the students--and I am a student here.

3) Loyola: Don't know much--did not apply there as I did not want to commute to Maywood.

4) Christ: Easily my favorite of this list. I did my clerkship there...the program director and associate program director are very nice, very accessible. Hope IS a stand-alone children's hospital that has a wonderful ancillary staff (as to all Advocate hospitals) and supportive attending staff as well. I can also guarantee you that they see a good variety of pathology and have their own services--rads, etc. Hospital is quite nice--well-decorated, etc. Affiliated with UIC, so it has that pretty University aura...hahahaha. No, seriously--they have a fantastic program. I love it, right behind NU and U of C.

Hope that helped....

 

[kristing]

I think Hope is awesome. I interviewed there and was really impressed. I didn't rank it super high because I didn't want to live in Chicago, I decided, but I would say it is fabulous.