Welcome to the Rush Copley Family Medicine Residency!
With great excitement, I welcome you to the Rush Copley Family Medicine Residency Program. When people ask me why I chose Family Medicine, I usually skip the formal definitions. For me, it has always been about the stories and the people. Years after my own residency, I can tell you that this career is as challenging as it is joyful. It’s the sense of accomplishment you feel when you’ve walked with a family through their hardest days and their best ones.
To this day, I am deeply pleased with my decision to become a family doctor. It has given me a challenging career filled with joy, a sense of accomplishment, and both personal and professional satisfaction. Congratulations on your decision to choose this path—I hope that you, too, will experience that same joy I do.
Our Philosophy: Excellence Through Community
Our program is strongly positioned to help you become a truly competent family physician. We are a 4-4-4, unopposed, community family medicine program with the prestige of a Rush University affiliation. We have held full ACGME-accreditation and have been an integral part of Rush Copley since 1999.
Because we are an unopposed program, our residents don't compete for procedures or patients with other specialty learners. Here, you are the priority.
At Rush Copley, we pride ourselves on being a community-based program with university-caliber resources. Being part of the Rush University System allows us to provide our residents with rigorous clinical training and academic depth. However, our soul remains in Aurora. Our residents don’t just work here; they become an integral part of the healthcare fabric of this diverse, vibrant community.
My Promise to You
As your Program Director, my priority is your evolution. Beyond the curriculum, we focus on the personal growth of each resident. We want to ensure you develop the habits that allow a board-certified physician to thrive, not merely survive. My door is always open, and my goal is to ensure that our program remains a place where your individual interests can flourish.
As you progress through your residency search, I hope you find the people who will best support your evolution. I invite you to explore the unique features of our program and contact us for more information. We look forward to the possibility of you joining our family medicine community.
Shennin Hudoba, MD
Program Director
Rush Copley Family Medicine Center
As a family medicine resident, our outpatient clinic will be at the heart of your training as this is where you will see your own panel of patients throughout your three years of training. The Rush Copley Family Medicine Center was the third clinic in Illinois to receive official recognition as a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) by the National Committee on Quality Assurance. A few of our unique PMCH elements include same day sick visits, diabetes population management, group visits for diabetes, and referral tracking.
Rush Copley Medical Center
Our hospital also provides an ideal setting for the inpatient experience. Our award-winning community hospital is known for its advanced medicine and provides an ideal setting for the inpatient experience. As an unopposed program, the opportunities for you to learn here are endless. Our residency and clinic are on campus and adjoined to the hospital. Even with the continued growth of our different institutes, we have retained that “small-town” atmosphere where everyone knows you by name.
We are fortunate to have Rush Copley Wound and Hyperbaric Services on campus, located next door to our Family Medicine Clinic. Here you will work with physicians who have advanced wound care training as well as nurses trained in care of chronic wound to treat a variety of wounds, from diabetic foot ulcers to pressure ulcers to ulcers from peripheral arterial disease. The Center also has two hyperbaric oxygen chambers offering Hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Our open ICU offers tremendous learning when you work side by side our board-certified intensivists and participate in multidisciplinary rounds. They are a great group of enthusiastic teachers!
Like most community hospitals, we do not have an inpatient psychiatry unit. However, Rush Copley Medical Center does have daily inpatient psychiatry coverage, another opportunity for collaborating and learning.
Colleagues
It’s not just the technology, expertise, or facility that’s important, it’s also the people. They say it’s the people that make the place and I am exceptionally proud of our group. While there are many ways to describe the people at our program, our residents have done it the best: “People here have great work values and uphold them to the fullest” and there is “a fun-loving ‘we’re all in this together’ type of attitude.” The sense of family in our program is palpable.
We have a wonderful, experienced, diverse, and enthusiastic group of faculty with over 75 years of combined teaching experience. We’ve been described by our residents as a “strong faculty who like to teach” with a “strong collegiality among residents and attendings.” We are thrilled and honored that some of our graduates are now teaching attending within our program. You’ll find that our faculty each have their own unique teaching style that facilitates your individual learning.
Our residents are smart, knowledgeable, hardworking and fun-loving, an irresistible combination that leads to a supportive environment conducive for learning. Our clinic staff is dedicated to working with the residents, helping to teach as well as playing a valuable role on the healthcare team. Several of our staff have been here since the inception of our residency program!
Our hospital medical and nursing staff are supportive of our residents and our teaching mission. Both are actively engaged in your training and a representative from each attends residency graduation each year to give the Resident of the Year Award. It is quite an honor for a resident to receive one of these coveted awards.