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The neighborhood of Hyde Park in South Chicago
is the home of the University of Chicago.
The beautiful community near the shores of Lake Michigan
is rich with tradition and diversity.
It is where the University of Chicago
was started more than 100 years ago, with a gift from John D
Rockefeller.
Home to many Nobel winners, brilliant academic scholars,
scientists, and artists, University of Chicago
is also home to UChicago Medicine,
an academic medical center where the patient is first,
and science, along with research and training
of the next generation of doctors, is embraced.
A very deep-seated part of our culture
is to question, and to challenge,
and not to take for granted.
And so that's foundational.
And people know that when you come
to the University of Chicago, that's expected of you.
So that even though things may have been done a certain way
for the last 10, 15, 20, or 30 years, you have to figure out,
is there a better way to do it?
The reason to come to University of Chicago Medicine
is we offer not only just innovative therapies
for patients, novel therapies for patients.
You will get a view into tomorrow's therapies here today
to take care of you.
UChicago Medicine is an academic medical center
that trains future leaders in medicine and research.
Each July when we get new trainees here,
it brings a new life and a new breath of freshness
into the institution.
There's a palpable sense of excitement,
both from the trainees and from the faculty.
And there's nothing more rewarding
than to see someone come in as a timid, new doctor
and leave as an accomplished, and confident, and eminently
competent physician.
The concept of being at the forefront of medicine
is honestly true.
We are very, very, very strong clinicians here
at University of Chicago, and that's across all specialties.
We're very, very lucky that we have not only the best
clinicians in this aspect, but also researchers
that every day, after they finish rounding,
are going back to their labs or working
with their clinical trials to help
provide the care for these patients for tomorrow.
It's really important that you feel
that the culture of the institution
is one that's encouraging, and one
that will be supportive for you while you're here.
And I think you see that on all levels--
the interactions interplaying with the nurses, and the case
management, and the social workers, and physicians
all working toward the goal of giving the patient the best
care possible.
I thank God for the team, the health care
team at the University of Chicago Medicine.
They're wonderful.
The answer that we got was you don't have to travel far.
You've got the very, very, very best in your backyard.
They said, University of Chicago has got this amazing program.
I was fortunate to train here many years ago.
And I still carry with me both the experience,
the memory, the camaraderie, and, I think,
the wisdom that came from that decision at the time.
This is a great environment for learning.
It's a great environment for teaching.
And it's the place that really wants all of our trainees
to go out and be leaders in whatever they're going to do.
We want to train leaders.
UChicago Medicine is based in the Hyde Park neighborhood
of Chicago, and includes the University of Chicago Medical
Center, the Pritzker School of Medicine,
and the Biological Sciences Division.
Today, UChicago Medicine has expanded beyond the campus
to include Ingles Memorial, a community-based hospital
an outpatient facility in Harvey, Illinois,
and dozens of outpatient clinics in downtown
Chicago, the south suburbs, and northwest Indiana.
It is a place we call home, and a place
where we care about our neighbors and their future.
Actually, I'm born and raised in Chicago,
grew up on the south side of Chicago,
and I've always heard wonderful things
about the University of Chicago.
And as a child, it was kind of like a pillar of great health,
and great health standards, and excellence.
So ever since I was a little girl
and I knew that I wanted to be a doctor,
I knew that I wanted to work here.
We have so many resources from an intellectual standpoint,
to a physical standpoint, to this beautiful hospital
that we're in now.
Things that are rare are not rare to us,
and we're really good at taking care of the common things, too.
Research and the basic sciences are
a big part of what UChicago Medicine is all about.
We are constantly searching for cures
for some of the most debilitating diseases people
face.
We want our neighbors to live happy, healthy, long lives.
The patient will benefit from innovation.
And innovation happens, of course,
at all times in medicine.
We're never happy with where we are.
And then the question is, where is it
going to be available first?
Where are the thinkers that think about tomorrow?
Where are the trials where new things are tested, and brought
into clinical practice, and allow patients
to be exposed to that?
And there's very few places that exceed
the University of Chicago in terms of that access.
University of Chicago is a unique place
where the clinical care is closely coupled.
It's on the same campus as the basic science research.
And you have every component of medical care
here-- adult, pediatrics, the entire spectrum.
So it's a unique place and institution,
not only within Chicago, but even in the United States.
It's not just our doctors and scientists
that make UChicago Medicine special.
Nurses and other frontline caregivers
provide the best care possible to patients.
Our nurses here at University of Chicago Medicine
are really second to none.
Our recent Magnet designation just
validates what we all know.
Our clinical outcomes related to our nursing care
are consistently amongst the best in the nation.
It's an environment and a culture here
that is surrounded by people asking critical questions
and performing the types of clinical and even
basic research that all come back to a patient who's
suffering from a disease.
And that's really important.
And part of that is also maintaining that legacy
by training the future leaders and scientists who
are going to do this as we go on in our careers.
It's a really special place, in that regard.
UChicago Medicine has always been different.
Our scientists constantly question and look
for other better ways of doing things.
Clinical curiosity and academic rigor
are welcomed here, as well as the desire
to provide the best care possible to those who need us.
As long as you're smart, and you're hard-working,
and your ideas are good, even though they're unconventional,
we give them a chance.
We don't assume that they're correct, obviously,
but to give them a chance to prove that their idea is better
than everybody else's.
And that is not something that you
can take for granted at every institution.