FACILITIES AND RESOURCES

The primary clinical training sites for the Rush/Stroger Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program are Rush University Medical Center, a 600-bed primary and tertiary care private hospital, the physically adjacent Stroger Hospital of Cook County, a new 450-bed primary and tertiary care public hospital that opened in December 2002, and the CORE Center, a 60,000 square foot Cook County-affiliated outpatient facility 2 blocks northwest of Stroger. These institutions serve a geographically, racially, and ethnically diverse population of patients derived largely from the urban and suburban Chicago area and collar counties. Rush also provides care to patients referred for specialized tertiary services from throughout the Midwest. Both inpatient and outpatient clinical experiences and didactic training (lectures, conferences) for fellows are equally divided between the two hospitals, and clinical and laboratory research projects may be undertaken at either institution (See D. Research and Scholarly Activities page under Program Content section).