Mission, Values, and Aims

The Advocate Christ Family Medicine Residency trains exceptional family medicine physicians who are committed to continuous learning and excellence. Our physicians serve their patients and community with a holistic and family-centered approach.

  • Medical training
  • Quality and safe patient care
  • Compassionate and patient centered care
  • Advocacy for the specialty of Family Medicine
  • Inclusivity
  • Professionalism
  • Influencing social determinants of health care

Our Focus: Inclusive, comprehensive care across the spectrum of life.

  • The program aims to graduate clinicians who are solidly competent to provide care to any person seeking assistance, whether for acute or chronic illness, preventive care, maternity care, or minor surgery.
  • The program aims to design a comprehensive, balanced, and versatile curriculum guiding out resident learners to understand their role in addressing the “quadruple aim” of improving health of populations, enhancing the patient experience of care, reducing the per capita cost of health care and emphasizing personal well-being that is sustainable into their professional careers.
  • The program aims to provide our patients with comprehensive, coordinated and continuous care, such that they will “Call Us First” for all of their primary health care needs.
  • The program aims to solidify our reputation as a highly sought after site for both allopathic and osteopathic training and scholarship, and to continue to recruit the best and brightest into the field of Family Medicine.