UICOMP-Internal Medicine Residency Program

01/14/2026

Our PGY-2s and future Chiefs, Rishi and Christina, had an amazing time at GI ASCO! They reconnected with our student alumna Harveen Kaur (we miss you!) and met an inspiring group of both emerging and seasoned oncologists. We’re looking forward to exciting future collaborations from these incredible minds!

12/17/2025

Congratulations to Dr Varshini Thiruvadi on being awarded the Mary Draeger Schultz Patient Safety Award 2025!!! Dr Thiruvadi’s QI project to improve the use of antibiogram by the residents when prescribing antibiotics to impact antimicrobial stewardship won her this scholarship. Way to go, Varshini! We would also like to recognize our chief resident Dr who mentored her on this project!

12/11/2025

Budding hematologists and oncologists from our IM program at American Society of Hematology Conference 2025. Congratulations on your poster presentations and publications!!! 🇺🇸

12/06/2025

Congratulations to our Internal Medicine residents on matching into their top fellowship programs!!! We are excited for all the great things ahead for you!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

11/01/2025

ACP IL Downstate Chapter Residents and Students Day had great participation from our program and we can’t wait to go to National ACP to present our work there!!! Congratulations to all the winners, presenters and participants!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

10/19/2025

We had our first Journal Club of the year this October with .sbn presenting the DIGIT-HF trial! Perspectives from our experienced and budding cardiologists made for an interesting discussion amongst the residents. We are excited to see digitoxin back in the game and are waiting for the DECISION trial with bated breath! Dinner, drinks and a birthday were welcome additions :D

10/09/2025

09/12/2025

Our PGY II female squad catching a breather between admits!!! 🙌🏽✨

07/01/2025

Belated congratulations to the Class of 2025!! It was a joy to meet your families and celebrate your graduation together on 6/20! We are honored to have been a part of your lives and witnesses to your growth. We’re so proud of the compassionate, diligent, curious, kind physicians you have become. Wishing you all the best in the next chapter! We’re so glad many of you will be staying here as fellows and colleagues.
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06/26/2025

Orientation week is in full swing! We had a mixer this evening at industry brewing that got some interns and residents together for fun conversations, food and drinks!

06/01/2025

Today, we celebrated the graduation of our outstanding Transitional Year residents, whose dedication and teamwork have been invaluable to our Internal Medicine program. Their contributions have strengthened our patient care, enriched our learning environment, and left a lasting impact on our residency. We wish them all the very best in their advanced programs and future endeavors!!!

05/22/2025

Dr Keerthana Sivakolundu, our clinicopathologic case conference winner, presenting Internal Medicine Grand Rounds. She did a fantastic job navigating the audience through this complex case of multidrug resistant and difficult to treat pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia presenting with echthyma gangrenosum in a patient immunocompromised due to cirrhosis and underlying hematologic malignancy. Great teaching points throughout and we all left the session feeling enlightened and intellectually stimulated!!