Leadership Welcome

We welcome your interest in the Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Psychiatry Residency Program. Since the beginning of our program in the early 1980's, we have been devoted to the preparation of excellent clinical psychiatrists in the kind of community setting in which most psychiatrists practice. At the same time, our residents have the opportunity to learn in one of the nation's best hospitals, alongside residents in every major specialty, and in partnership with both a full-time clinical faculty and community-based psychiatrists. The program is small, so that we can provide close relationships with supervisors, concentrated supervisory attention, and breadth and depth of clinical experience to all our residents. This experience has prepared residents well not only for clinical practice, but for board certification and subspecialty training.

We're glad you've decided to take a closer look at our program. Since most residencies in Psychiatry are at medical schools, these are the residencies faculty and advisors tend to know and suggest for application. But there is another option, and Lutheran General is one of the few instances of that option: Psychiatry residency in one of the best hospitals in the United States, one of the best teaching hospitals in the United States, and in the community setting and atmosphere in which most medical school residency graduates end up practicing, but to which they may have little exposure during their residency training.

Over 25% of our graduates have completed subspecialty fellowships in child psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, or geriatric psychiatry. Several graduates are on medical school teaching faculties; some of them are or have been full-time faculty members. While general psychiatric clinical practice has been the most common career choice, our graduates have been able to enter virtually every other type of career option as well. If you are interested in residency in the Chicago area, and in the clinical practice of psychiatry in Illinois, you will do yourself a service to consider Lutheran General.

So take a good look at us! We know you will hear about and to some extent experience the comfortable, collegial atmosphere of our department and hospital. But we hope you will also sense and experience the educational atmosphere, the preparation for the up-to-date scientific clinical practice of Psychiatry, including its traditional and innovative methods of psychotherapy along with its biomedical advances. We think you'll be glad you did!

Daniel J. Anzia, MD Department Chairman Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Illinois College of Medicine

Michael Wagner, MD Residency Program Director Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Illinois College of Medicine