Clinical Training Sites
Clinical Sites
Residents rotate through six clinical sites across Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, gaining exposure to high-volume trauma, quaternary referral care, pediatric orthopaedics, and ambulatory surgery. This distributed model provides balanced training across academic medical centers, safety-net hospitals, and community settings — ensuring breadth of experience and depth of operative volume.
Training Highlights
Four Level I trauma centers, including adult, pediatric, and combined designations
Two quaternary referral centers with complex regional pathology
6 months of dedicated pediatric orthopaedic training at a nationally ranked children's hospital
Ambulatory surgery exposure at a high-volume outpatient surgery center
Cross-training alongside residents from Rush, Northwestern, and UIC
Olympia Fields Hospital
Olympia Fields Hospital serves as the program's home institution, located in the south suburbs of Chicago. Residents gain broad exposure to general orthopaedics, managing a wide spectrum of musculoskeletal conditions across both operative and nonoperative settings. The site offers focused depth in spine surgery under the direct supervision of the Program Director, a spine fellowship–trained surgeon.
Advocate Illinois
Masonic Medical Center
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 500-bed Level I trauma center on Chicago's North Side, serving a large and diverse urban population. Residents rotate through a broad subspecialty mix including orthopaedic trauma, sports medicine, adult reconstruction, hand, shoulder and elbow, and foot and ankle surgery.
Advocate Christ
Medical Center
Advocate Christ Medical Center is a 750-bed Level I adult and pediatric trauma center and quaternary referral center in Oak Lawn, southwest of Chicago. With one of the largest regional catchment areas in the state, it ranks among the busiest Level I trauma centers in the Chicago area. Residents complete nine months at this site, gaining extensive exposure to high-volume orthopaedic trauma alongside experience in other subspecialties. Training occurs alongside orthopaedic residents from UIC Chicago.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is a 350-bed quaternary-care pediatric hospital and one of only four Pediatric Level I trauma centers in Illinois. Located in downtown Chicago, residents gain hands-on exposure to complex pediatric musculoskeletal pathology under the guidance of nationally recognized pediatric orthopaedic faculty. Training occurs alongside orthopaedic residents from Rush and Northwestern.
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County is a 500-bed Level I trauma center and public safety-net hospital in Chicago's Medical District, serving one of the most diverse and high-acuity patient populations in the region. Residents gain significant exposure to complex orthopaedic trauma, with additional operative experience in hand and shoulder-elbow pathology. Training occurs alongside orthopaedic residents from Rush and Northwestern.
Duly Health and Care Surgery Center Westmont
The Duly Health and Care Surgery Center in Westmont offers dedicated ambulatory surgery training in outpatient sports medicine, total joint arthroplasty, spine, and shoulder and elbow procedures. This rotation complements hospital-based training by emphasizing same-day surgical efficiency, minimally invasive techniques, and the delivery of value-based orthopaedic care — skills increasingly essential in modern practice.