The city: Loyola is actually a little west of the city of Chicago, in Maywood, Illinois. I was also informed that Maywood has the #1 homicide rate in the country (thus the Level I Trauma Center). Obviously there is a ton of stuff to do in Chicago, and most of the residents either live downtown ($$) or in Oak Park.
The program: The Loyola program functions out of their main hospital, a VA hospital, and their private hospital Resurrection. The hospital itself is under a lot of construction (thus the picture), and they are adding 68 new private rooms and some new ORs for a total of 27. Loyola does quite a bit of trauma (for aforementioned reasons), and has a total of 160 ICU beds (including NICU and PICU), so they do a lot of critical care as well. However, they don't do much pediatric surgery (just obtained their first ped surgeon), nor do they do much laparoscopy. There is a two-year research period between the second and third year of residency, and two residents per year have to "go out" to do research so two others can "come back in."
The residents: There are 6 residents at Loyola, and they all seemed to love living in Chicago. They were all very friendly and good at answering questions, and seemed like nice, midwest folks.
Four more interviews--stay tuned! :)
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