Clinical Training Sites
Clinical Sites
Residents rotate through multiple clinical sites across Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, providing exposure to high-volume trauma, tertiary referral care, pediatric orthopaedics, and ambulatory surgery. This structure supports balanced training across academic, safety-net, and community hospital settings.
Training Environment Highlights
Multiple Level I trauma centers (adult and pediatric)
Quaternary referral centers with complex pathology
Dedicated pediatric orthopaedic training
High-volume ambulatory surgery exposure
Collaboration with residents from other academic programs at select sites
Franciscan Health
Olympia Fields
Located in the south suburbs of Chicago, this site serves as the program’s home institution, providing broad exposure to general orthopaedics in a community hospital setting. Residents manage a wide spectrum of musculoskeletal conditions and gain experience in operative and nonoperative care, with additional exposure to spine surgery under the guidance of the Program Director, a spine fellowship–trained surgeon.
Advocate Illinois
Masonic Medical Center
Advocate Illinois Masonic is a 500-bed Level I trauma center on Chicago’s North Side serving a diverse urban population. Residents gain experience across orthopaedic trauma, sports medicine, adult reconstruction, hand, shoulder and elbow, and foot and ankle surgery in a high-volume tertiary-care environment.
Advocate Christ
Medical Center
ACMC is 750-bed Level I adult and pediatric trauma center and quaternary referral center located in Oak Lawn, just southwest of Chicago. With a large regional catchment area, it is among the busiest Level I trauma centers in the Chicago area. Residents spend nine months rotating at ACMC, gaining extensive exposure to high-volume orthopaedic trauma while also participating in other orthopaedic subspecialties.
Training occurs alongside orthopaedic surgery residents from UIC Chicago.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Lurie Children’s is a 350-bed pediatric hospital in downtown Chicago and one of only four Pediatric Level I trauma centers in Illinois. Residents gain exposure to complex pediatric musculoskeletal pathology in a nationally and internationally ranked quaternary-care setting under the guidance of renowned pediatric orthopaedic faculty.
Training occurs alongside orthopaedic surgery residents from Rush and Northwestern.
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Cook County is a 500-bed Level I trauma center and public safety-net hospital located in Chicago’s Medical District, serving a large and diverse urban population. Residents gain exposure to complex orthopaedic trauma, with additional experience in complex hand and shoulder-elbow pathology.
Training occurs alongside orthopaedic surgery residents from Rush and Northwestern.
Duly Health and Care Surgery Center Westmont
Located in Westmont, just west of Chicago, residents gain exposure to outpatient sports medicine, total joint arthroplasty, spine, and shoulder and elbow procedures. The rotation emphasizes same-day surgery, complementing hospital-based training with experience in minimally invasive techniques and value-based orthopaedic care.