Belleville, Illinois
Scott AFB, Illinois

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Residency Mission and History
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Our Partners
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Curriculum, Call, and Clinic
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What Makes Us Unique
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Graduate and Faculty Experience
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The Local Area
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Contact Us

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Blend the strengths of university, community, military
Develop “full-scope” FPs
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Ready for rural, urban, austere, underserved environments
Promote ownership of & responsibility for patients
Develop “physician- leaders”
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Future commanders/faculty

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AF and civ. residents have same core rotations at same sites
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AF, civ., and volunteer faculty precept all residents
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AF and civ. residents on same clinic floor, different hallways

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Scott AFB Family Practice Residency est. 1972
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Southern Illinois University Family Practice
Residency est. 1981
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Merged in 1996 under St. E, SLU in 1997
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Scott AFB Inpatient Services closed 2005
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Southern Illinois Health Foundation took civilian clinic oversight in 2006

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Current site of military and civilian clinics
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Downtown Belleville, IL
Across from hospital
Clinical space on 3 rd floor split by AF and SIHF
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AF here since 1996
Over 25K of space total
Office and educational space on 4 th floor used by faculty and residents

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375 th Medical Group, Scott AFB, IL
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St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Belleville, IL
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Primary site for clinical rotations
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Southern Illinois Health Foundation
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Oversees the civilian clinic
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Saint Louis University School of Medicine
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Academic sponsorship and support

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Oversees USAF clinics
Site for some outpatient rotations
“Super-clinic”
(outpatient services only) since 2005
Still offers Radiology,
OB/GYN, Minor
Procedures, Derm, IM,
Peds, Flight Medicine

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Primary site for clinical rotations (medicine/OB)
Over 180 patient beds
Over 40 medical specialties on staff
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To include neurosurgery, interventional cardiology, neonatal intensive care, plastic surgery, and more

Southern Illinois Health Foundation
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Oversees the civilian clinic
Over 25 primary care clinic sites in So. Illinois
Community service and elective opportunities
Mission to increase access to healthcare, especially for the underserved

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Academic sponsor
Some clinical rotations
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Peds Inpatient/E.R.
Outpatient Surgery
On-line library access
Opportunity to teach medical students

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4 wks “core month”
16 wks inpatient medicine
4 wks inpatient OB
4 wks inpatient nursery
4 wks inpatient peds
4 wks emergency room
4 wks outpatient OB
4 wks outpatient peds
4 wks orthopedics
4 wks inpatient surgery
4 wks geriatrics

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4 wks inpatient medicine
4 wks ICU
4 wks cardiology
4 wks OB night float
4 wks scholarly project
4 wks peds E.R.
4 wks outpatient surgery
4 wks outpatient peds
4 wks behavioral med
4 wks outpatient procedures
4 wks rural medicine
4 wks gynecology

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4 wks inpatient medicine
4 wks inpatient “faculty”
6 wks surgical subs
 urology, ophtho, ENT
2 wks neurology
4 wks G.I.
4 wks sports medicine
4 wks practice mgt
4 wks community med
4 wks dermatology
20 elective wks (PG2-3)

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Combat Casualty Care
Course (with ATLS)
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2 wks, PGY3, in Texas
CSTARS (Trauma Course)
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2 wks, PGY3, at SLU
Goal 36 hours of formal didactics by graduation
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Profiles, deployments, etc
Elective opportunities
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Aerospace Medicine Primary
Course, infect. disease, etc

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PGY-1
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1 week of night float during inpatient months
7 days of short call during inpatient medicine months
PGY-2
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Q4 on inpatient medicine and ICU
Q7-14 on remaining rotations
PGY-3
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Q4 on inpatient medicine and “faculty” rotations
No other scheduled overnight calls

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Will easily exceed RRC Requirement of 1650 clinic patient encounters over 3 yrs of training
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PGY-1: 1-2 half days per week
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PGY-2: 2-3 half days per week
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PGY-3: 3-4 half days per week
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Color Team Structure (1 nurse, 4 docs, 4 techs) allows for better continuity and opportunity for process improvement projects

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Four “partners” offer extensive opportunities for rotations and electives
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Additional medical subspecialty training through St. E’s or SLU
Additional Peds/GYN training through SIHF
Additional opportunity for scholarly activity

What Makes
Us Unique
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“Unopposed” Residency
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All inpatient medicine,
OB, and nursery patients managed by FM services
Most subspecialty rotations (including surgery, cardiology, dermatology, etc) are oneon-one with community preceptors

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Unparalleled Inpatient
Medicine Experience
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200+ admissions/month to our unopposed service
Pathology of a mostly underserved population
20-30 ICU admits/month
Unopposed opportunity for inpatient procedures
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Central lines, vents, LP, intubation, thoracentesis

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Unparalleled OB and
Procedural Training
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OB fellow on staff
Most Residents exceed 70 deliveries/15 continuity
Skin biopsy, colposcopy,
LEEP, EMB, vasectomy, injections, IUD, Implanon
Colonoscopy/C-Section precepted by FP
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Add’l opportunities have given some grads 200+ c-scopes/50+ c-sections

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Sports Med Curriculum
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Workshops with sports med faculty
Opportunity to be team physician at area high schools and colleges
Ultrasound guided injections, gait analysis

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Faculty Dedicated to
Teaching
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Weds afternoons set aside for conferences
Daily Morning Report on inpatient services
Variety of faculty strengths and interests
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Women’s Health, endoscopy, acupuncture, osteopathy, obstetrics

“Family Atmosphere”

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“Family Atmosphere”

Sampling of where some of our grads since 2004 have been assigned:
Ramstein AB, Germany
Osan AB, Korea
RAF Upwood, U.K.
Nellis AFB Nevada, (faculty)
Elmendorf AFB, Alaska
Aviano AB, Italy
Eglin AFB, Florida (faculty)
Hickam AFB, Hawaii
Sampling of our grads’ deployments in past 4 yrs:
Ali Al-Salem AB, Kuwait Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan
Kirkuk AB, Iraq
Camp Bucca, Iraq
Balad AB, Iraq
Manas AB, Krygyzstan

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16 Full-Time Faculty
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11 Military, 5 Civilian
6 Military Faculty have overseas experience
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Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait,
Germany, Korea, U.K.
1 OB Fellow, 1 Geriatric
Fellow, 1 DO, 1 Sports Med
3 credentialed in
C-sections, 3 in endoscopy

The Local Area
Belleville, Illinois
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Excellent cost of living
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Average home price in
Belleville in 2009 was
$123,357
Top-notch public and private schools
20 minutes to St. Louis
4 hours to Chicago,
Indianapolis, Kansas
City, or Memphis

The Local Area
“Metro East”
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Lakes, water parks, minor league baseball, and family fun within minutes!

St. Louis
Sports and Attractions

St. Louis
Family Activities
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FREE Zoo, Science Center, Museums
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20-30 minute drive from Belleville!

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Lt. Col. Tammy Lindsay, M.D., Associate
Program Director
 tammy.lindsay@us.af.mil
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Ms. Theresa Moore, Residency Coordinator
 mooret2@slu.edu
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Tina Kearney, M.D., Medical Student
Coordinator
 tkearney@sihf.org