Residency and Education

Rotating Hospitals

Edward Hines Jr. Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital

VA Hines Hospital is located on 147 park-like acres of land just 12 miles west of downtown Chicago. Hines is a large tertiary care facility with approximately 650 acute, intermediate, and extended care beds as well as an expansive Ambulatory Care Center.

In 1970, when the new hospital tower was opened, the four original hospital operating rooms became the surgical research facility of the combined institutions. The facilities recently were renovated and the operating rooms fully equipped with physiologic monitors and postoperative recovery areas appropriate for animal research. This research area is supported by a full-time staff, including animal care technicians and a veterinary faculty. The faculties are fully AALAC accredited. Surgical residents and medical students are encouraged to use these facilities to learn improved surgical technique and to pursue surgical research interests. In the past few years, a special minimally invasive operating area for resident training and courses for area physicians has been established.

The faculty on the surgical services at Hines VA also are appointed as faculty members of Loyola University Medical Center and the vast majority carry clinical responsibilities at both institutions. This provides an excellent and consistent standard of patient care and surgical education. The Hines VA library has over 6,000 volumes and receives over 600 periodicals. Hines served 320,511 outpatients and 12,016 inpatients in FY1996.

Resurrection Medical Center

Resurrection Medical Center and Loyola’s surgical residency have been associated for nearly 25 years. Resurrection is a 434-bed facility near O'Hare Airport. It serves a diverse population of city and suburban communities and the vast O’Hare corridor of industry, hotels and commercial development.  Resurrection Health Care is a not-for-profit Catholic organization sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and the Sisters of the Resurrection

Residents in years one through four rotate through Resurrection. The length of the rotation varies from four weeks to two months. Each resident will spend approximately six months of his or her total 60-month program there. Resurrection’s active general and subspecialty surgical services allow the resident to assume responsibility in these areas. The surgical rotations also will provide the resident with experience in surgical endoscopy. The experience to practice within a community hospital environment complements the Loyola University Medical Center/Hines VA experience.

Most of the surgical staff members of Resurrection Medical Center have clinical appointments as Loyola faculty, and a significant number are graduates of the Loyola surgical residency program.

For additional information, please contact:
Kim Echert
Education Coordinator,
Surgical Education Programs
(708)327-2335  Office
(708)327-3489  Fax

email: surg-res@lumc.edu