We are actively recruiting Chief Residents for the 2026-2027 academic year for the Loyola Medicine-MacNeal Hospital Internal Medicine and Transitional Year Residency Program in Berwyn, Illinois. Each year, we select two Chief Residents to join our leadership team and work with 42 Internal Medicine (IM) and 14 Transitional Year (TY) residents.

This one-year position offers outstanding opportunities for recent residency graduates to further develop their teaching and leadership skills while gaining clinical experience as an attending physician. Many of our former Chief Residents have gone on to pursue careers in academic medicine, competitive fellowships, and hospital medicine.

About MacNeal Hospital & the Chief Resident Role

MacNeal Hospital is a 374-bed institution with three residency programs: Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Transitional Year. The Chief Resident position includes a balance of educational, administrative, and clinical responsibilities, including:

• Teaching & Education:
  • Leading resident and medical student education through Chief-led conferences.
  • Conducting hospital-wide teaching conferences and CME-accredited noontime lectures for attending physicians.
  • Managing multi-module simulation workshops for procedures and high-fidelity simulations.
• Leadership & Administration:
  • Representing the residency programs on key hospital and program committees.
  • Leading a Quality Improvement (QI) project with residents.
  • Gaining administrative experience, including scheduling and program management.
• Clinical Responsibilities & Moonlighting:
  • Supervising residents as an attending in the continuity clinic and inpatient medicine.
  • Option to moonlight externally or within the MacNeal hospitalist team (covering night shifts remotely from home on weekends) based on work authorization status.
  • MacNeal moonlighting is remote/home call for night shifts on weekends.

By the end of the academic year, Chief Residents develop a strong foundation in medical education, hospital leadership, and administrative skills, preparing them for diverse career paths in hospital medicine, academic medicine, or private practice.

Application Criteria

An ideal candidate should have the following:

• MD or DO degree
• Completion of an Internal Medicine Residency Program & Board eligibility
• Strong interest in medical education, teaching, and curricular development
• Commitment to leadership and mentorship
• J-1 visa holders are eligible to apply
• Ability to attend the APDIM or ACGME Chief Resident Conference (Spring 2026)
• We reimburse the fee for the ABIM boards.

Location & Moonlighting Opportunities

MacNeal Hospital is in Berwyn, just 20 minutes west of downtown Chicago. Moonlighting opportunities are available both within MacNeal and externally, depending on work authorization eligibility.

Compensation & Benefits

This opportunity offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including:

• Competitive annual compensation of $100,000
• Excellent Benefits: https://www.trinity-health.org/my-benefits/_assets/documents/illinois/loyola-medicine-benefits-summary.pdf 
• Paid Time Off Days
• Paid malpractice, including post-employment tail coverage
• CME Days and Allowance
• Additional Benefits from LUC or VA (if applicable)

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit a CV, a cover letter, three references (one must be from your Program Director), USMLE / COMLEX scores, and a completed GME application. The GME application will be emailed to you for completion by the Program Coordinator upon receipt of the other documents.

Send applications to:

Dr. Priyanka Sultania Dudani - Priyanka.sultani-dudani@luhs.org
Dr. Melissa Arredondo - melissa.arredondorupp@lumc.edu

We look forward to your applications!

Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from more than 1,500 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. Loyola is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children's hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Established in 1961, Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research Facility at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center. MacNeal is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical, and psychiatric services, acute rehabilitation, an inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics.

For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (LUCSSOM) is committed to scholarship and the education of medical professionals and biomedical scientists.  The school, including its faculty, trainees, and staff are called to go beyond facts, experimentation, and treatment of disease to prepare people to lead extraordinary lives and treat the human spirit in an environment that encourages innovation, embraces diversity, respects life, and values human dignity.

LUCSSOM believes that thoughtful scholarly excellence, service, stewardship, and continuing reflection advance our ability to contribute high-impact research and provide the highest-quality education.

MacNeal Hospital is a 374-bed teaching hospital, with more than 550 medical staff members in 50 specialties, advanced inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and psychiatric services, and advanced diagnostics and treatments in a convenient community setting. Our leading-edge technology and facilities allow our team of cardiovascular specialists to deliver a full spectrum of services for you and your family. Two immediate care locations offer quick and easy access when a medical issue is not an emergency but cannot wait for a standard appointment. In addition, MacNeal has a 12-bed acute rehabilitation unit, a 25-bed inpatient skilled nursing facility and a 68-bed behavioral health program. Our MacNeal Center for Internal Medicine is a primary care clinic for adults, where resident physicians and attending physicians work together as a team to discuss treatments and care for patients.

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Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. We serve people and communities in 22 states from coast to coast with more than 90 hospitals and 100 continuing care facilities - including home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities and programs that provide nearly two and a half million visits annually. Trinity Health employs more than 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians.

Our mission: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We support this mission by living our core values of Reverence, Commitment to Those Who are Poor, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity. Committed to recruiting talented physicians, we are looking for physicians who share our values and want to help us fulfill the health care needs of the communities we serve.

At Trinity Health, we value the physician relationship and focus on partnering with our physicians. Whether you are a practicing physician looking to relocate or a medical resident, we offer opportunities with the flexibility to fit your individual needs. If you would like to be part of Trinity Health, we encourage you to explore this opportunity at www.trinity-health.org.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to submit your CV, please email Trinity Health Recruitment at docopps@trinity-health.org.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation. We serve people and communities in 22 states from coast to coast with more than 90 hospitals and 100 continuing care facilities – including home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities and programs that provide nearly two and a half million visits annually. Trinity Health employs more than 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians. Our mission: We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We support this mission by living our core values of Reverence, Commitment to Those Who are Poor, Justice, Stewardship, and Integrity. Committed to recruiting talented physicians, we are looking for physicians who share our values and want to help us fulfill the health care needs of the communities we serve. At Trinity Health, we value the physician relationship and focus on partnering with our physicians. Whether you are a practicing physician looking to relocate or a medical resident, we offer opportunities with the flexibility to fit your individual nee...ds. If you would like to be part of Trinity Health, we encourage you to explore this opportunity at www.trinity-health.org

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