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Family Medicine Residency

The Carle Foundation Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program is a community based program in a 489-bed tertiary care hospital. We're equipped with tremendous resources and research opportunities. 

The Carle Family Medicine Residency program is no longer accepting applications. Interested applicants are encouraged to review the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria Family Medicine Residency program, with training at Carle Health Methodist Hospital in Peoria, Illinois.

Letter from the Chief Resident

Our residency offers an unparalleled learning experience in a highly supportive environment. This is a special program that has given us the foundation to be successful in our various career endeavors—whether that's the OB track, rural medicine, hospital medicine, or outpatient. Our leadership continuously seeks resident feedback to improve our clinical rotations. The case volume is impressive, and the breadth of exposure is vast. Residents typically complete all key indicator numbers by the end of post-graduate year three. 

Our residency runs on the clinic-first model, allowing for a well-established clinic and the opportunity to treat equal numbers of adult and pediatric patients with excellent patient continuity. The experience is further enriched by protected time for educational workshops and weekly didactics. 

The environment we create within our program allows for friendships and a reliable network that can last a lifetime. We also prioritize wellness with gatherings on a biannual basis. The diversity in backgrounds among faculty and residents makes our program unique and unequivocally enhances our training.

Warmest Regards, 
Francesca Bryan, MD
Chief Resident, 2023-2024


“There is a true “family” atmosphere among our residents and faculty which allows residents to feel that they are truly supported in their journey.”
Nejmun Hussain, MD
Chief Resident, Class of 2022

“Rarely do you find yourself working in a place that is 1) composed of clinicians that are as diverse as the population it serves, 2) truly value the importance of Trauma Informed Care and Cultural Competency, and 3) understand and support the need for balance in one's life and career, quite like they do here within the Carle Family Medicine Residency Program. Here you are valued for who you are and nurtured to reach your full potential.”
Christopher Veal, MD
PGY-3, Certified Trauma Informed Care Physician

Program Description

Program Highlights

The Carle Family Medicine Residency in Urbana, Illinois is an ACGME-accredited residency program at a community-based, academic-affiliated hospital with 489 beds. It is a tertiary referral center for the region with a Level I Trauma Center, Level III perinatal services, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Level 3 Epilepsy Center, cancer institute, and heart and vascular institute. Strengths in emergency medicine/trauma, obstetrics, pediatrics, critical care, surgery and many more help make our residency an excellent training opportunity as well as provide an excellent referral base for our patients.

Carle Foundation Hospital is the primary teaching hospital for the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, which gives our residents opportunities to teach and serve as mentors for medical students.

Our residency program uses unique and innovative teaching styles and techniques as well as an internal track system so residents can individualize their third year training toward their future career goals.

Many family medicine residency graduates are recruited by the Carle Foundation Hospital system upon graduation to work in family medicine clinics, convenient care, and as hospitalists.

Epic is the fully-implemented EMR used at Carle Foundation Hospital for both outpatient and inpatient care.

Curriculum

Residency training in family medicine includes hands-on patient care experiences in clinic and hospital settings, in nursing homes, and at home. The majority of our didactics have been consolidated to occur on Tuesday afternoons. During these times, residents are excused from other duties to attend these learning opportunities.

PGY-1

  • Family Medicine Orientation
  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service (x3)
  • Pulmonary/Radiology
  • Cardiology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Pediatrics Outpatient
  • Nursery
  • Pediatrics Inpatient
  • Obstetrics (days)
  • Gynecology
  • Elective 
  • Continuity Clinics 1-2 half days per week*
PGY-2
  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service
  • Night Float
  • ICU
  • Sports Medicine
  • Quality/Nephrology
  • Pediatrics Outpatient
  • Surgery
  • Psychiatry
  • Neurology
  • Research/Rheumatology
  • Obstetrics (days)
  • Orthopedics/Night Float
  • Elective
  • Continuity Clinics 2-4 half days per week*
PGY-3

  • Family Medicine Inpatient Service (x2)
  • Pediatrics Inpatient
  • Urology (1)/Endocrinology (3)
  • Ophthalmology (1)/ENT (1)/Addiction Medicine (2)
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Elective
  • Flex (track specific)
  • Continuity Clinics 3-5 half days per week*

*Continuity Clinics may occur more or less frequently depending on the rotation

Longitudinal Curriculum

  • Acute Care
  • Behavioral Science/Psychiatry
  • Community Medicine
  • Critical Thinking
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  • Healthcare Management
  • Information Technology
  • Laboratory Medicine
  • Leadership Development
  • Legal Medicine and Ethics
  • Oral Health
  • Patient Education
  • Pharmacology
  • Point of Care Ultrasound
  • Practice Management
  • Procedures
  • Professionalism
  • Radiology
  • Research and Scholarly Activity
  • Residents as Teachers

Electives

  • Convenient Care/Acute Care
  • Dermatology
  • Endocrinology
  • ENT
  • Family Medicine Clinic
  • Geriatrics
  • Gynecology
  • Hospitalist Medicine
  • Neurology
  • Obstetrics Inpatient
  • Obstetrics Outpatient
  • Palliative Care
  • Psychiatry/Behavioral Health
  • Pulmonology
  • Research
  • Rheumatology
  • Rural Medicine
  • Trauma
  • Urology
  • Wound Care
  • Self-designed electives considered

Curriculum Tracks

Family Medicine

  • Pediatrics Outpatient
  • Acute Care Clinic
  • Psychology
  • Musculoskeletal Medicine
  • Flex 1 (Family Medicine Clinic and/or OMT)
  • Flex 2 
Women's Health, Gynecology

  • Obstetrics Outpatient
  • Ambulatory Women’s Health
  • Breast
  • Uro-gynecology/Gynecology
  • Flex (x2)
Hospitalist

  • Hospitalist Rotation (x3)
  • ICU
  • Flex (x2)

How We Track Resident Performance

At the end of each block rotation, residents receive a written and verbal evaluation from the attending(s) with whom they worked most closely. They also complete a self-evaluation of skills on a quarterly basis and take an annual in-training examination that is similar to the family medicine certification examination. In continuity clinic, preceptors complete daily evaluations so residents have more immediate written feedback. We use the ACGME Milestones evaluations twice per year to evaluate the performance levels residents are expected to demonstrate for skills, knowledge and behaviors in the six Core Competency domains of family medicine.

Meet Our Team

Heidi Gaddey, MD

Administration

Program Director

Brandyn Mason, DO

Administration

Associate Program Director

Simone Hampton, MD

Core Faculty

Jin Ahn, DO

Faculty

Kristine Carpenter, MD

Faculty

Tracy Grotrian, DO

Faculty

J.R. Hoffman, MD

Faculty

Frances Kramer, MD

Faculty

Dawn McCoy, MD

Faculty

Erika McLean, MD

Faculty

Carla Rafferty, MD

Faculty

Anne Robin, MD

Faculty

Stanley Wu, MD

Faculty

Tina Yang, DO

Faculty

Jerrad Zimmerman, MD

Faculty

Francesca Bryan, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Matthew Caviness, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Mohamed Hassaballa, MBBS

Resident

PGY-3

Farah Sahar, MBBS

Resident

PGY-3

Christopher Veal, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Daniel Wooldridge, MD

Resident

PGY-3

Sindhura Allala, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Oluwatosin Alo, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Cajetan Duru, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Jacques Lamour, MD

Resident

PGY-2

Juan Mendoza Ortiz, MD

Resident

PGY-2

John Tholany, DO

Resident

PGY-2

Hameed Akanbi, MD

Resident

PGY-1

Sanjana Bhimani, MBBS

Resident

PGY-1

Alana Hutcheson, MD

Resident

PGY-1

Roberto Quizon, MD

Resident

PGY-1

Sukhdeep Singh, DO

Resident

PGY-1