Family Medicine Center

Advocate Medical Group Family Medicine Center - Ravenswood serves as our residency training site, providing comprehensive, family-centered care to patients of all ages in the Ravenswood community. Our integrated resident and faculty practice fosters a culture of mentorship, collaboration, and shared responsibility, creating an ideal environment for residents to develop the clinical skills and professional relationships essential to family medicine.

Our three-year Family Medicine Residency Program offers broad-based training across the continuum of care, with a strong emphasis on preventive medicine, wellness, women's health, pediatric care, adult medicine, and geriatric care. Residents participate in longitudinal continuity clinic experiences, with 1 to 2 clinic sessions per week during the first year and increasing continuity clinic responsibilities throughout the second and third years.

The program provides unique opportunities for hands-on learning and procedural training. Residents gain experience in Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT), a wide variety of office-based procedures, collaborative behavioral health care through co-visits with our behavioral health faculty, and a home visit program that expands understanding of patients' health needs within their own environments. A multidisciplinary team approach reinforces our commitment to delivering high-quality, compassionate, and comprehensive care for the communities we serve.

Clinic Highlights

  • Develop a personal practice
  • Newborn clinic and lactation support
  • Procedure clinic
  • Osteopathic Manipulation clinic
  • Memory Clinic
  • Women's Health Procedure Clinic including colposcopy
  • Behavioral Health Faculty on-site for real-time collaboration and co-visits
  • Chronic disease management pharmacist (PharmD) on-site for collaboration and multi-disciplinary approach to chronic disease care
  • Sports Medicine clinic on-site
  • Regional and System leaders in LGBTQIA+ care including PEP and PreP prescribing

Additional Program Highlights

  • Wellness curriculum
  • Community Health Clinic experience
  • ABIDE Committee and Curriculum (Accountability for Belonging, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity)
  • Geriatric Home Visit Program
  • Advisor/Advisee Program
  • Sib Program

Procedures:

Residents will receive extensive primary care procedure training including and extending beyond the ACGME Core Family Medicine Procedures. Training involves didactics, procedure workshops, simulation lab time, and dedicated procedure clinics. Residents are not required to recruit their own patients for procedures.

ACGME Core Family Medicine Procedures

  • Biopsy, skin (such as excisional, punch, or shave)
  • Bracing/splinting of upper extremity or ankle
  • Destruction of skin lesions, acrochordon removal
  • EKG interpretation
  • I&D superficial abscess
  • Interpretation of basic x-rays including chest, KUB, spine, and extremities
  • Joint injection/aspiration of large joints such as knee or shoulder
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: IUD insertion and removal, Implant insertion and removal
  • Pap smear sampling and interpretation of results
  • Simple laceration repair with sutures, suture and staple removal
  • Toenail procedures including excision of ingrown nails and the management of onychomycosis
  • Trigger point injections
  • Initial certification in ACLS, ALSO, and NRP/NALS
  • POCUS training

Additional Family Medicine Procedures

  • Paracervical block
  • Endometrial Biopsy
  • Circumcision
  • OB Ultrasound
  • Non-stress testing
  • Cerumen impaction irrigation
  • Colposcopy, cervical biopsy and endocervical curettage
  • Cyst removals
  • Lipoma removals
  • Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment