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This program has gotten some bad press on this board and I'm not sure why.

Strengths:
- surgical volume
- rotations through:
1) UIC Hospital, the tertiary referral center for the Advocate HMO in Chicago. UIC also serves a large underserved population, bringing in diverse pathology
2) Jessie Brown VA - a very busy VA service with the typical VA patient population and resident autonomy
3) Children's Hospital
4) Christ Advocate Medical Center - a very busy urology rotation with 1 resident with 5 urologists. It's a 5th year rotation and the resident operates 5 days a week.
- well known faculty, especially in infertility (Dr. Niederberger mediates the infertility section of the Journal of Urology)
- Dr. Ross (the former chairman and still active faculty member) is the current president of the AUA
- the city of Chicago
- high volume of robotic prostatectomies, radical retropubic prostatectomies, and radical perineal prostatectomies. When you leave this program, you should be comfortable with all three approaches
- 1 year of research (if you're into that sort of thing)

Weaknesses:
- 6 year program (not a weakness if you want the research)
- not a lot of female urology, but improving during the Christ rotation and with the addition of new faculty last year