SIU School of Medicine Colon & Rectal Surgery Faculty Jan Rakinic, M.D. Colon & Rectal Surgery Fellowship Program Director jrakinic@siumed.edu Jan Rakinic, M.D., is the Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Section of Colorectal Surgery and Vice Chair for Safety, Quality, and Clinical Operations of the Department of Surgery at Southern Illinois University. She is the Program Director of the SIU-Springfield Clinic Colorectal Surgery Residency. Dr. Rakinic received her medical degree from Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans, completed General Surgery training at the University of

Benefits for Residents and Fellows 2024-2025 Stipends PGY IV $69,000 PGY V $70,270 PGY VI $73,272 Paid Leave (Vacation / Sick / Bereavement / Education) All trainees (residents and fellows) may be permitted up to (maximum number dependent on Board requirements): 3 weeks of vacation 14 days of sick leave 7 days of educational leave 3 calendar days of bereavement leave Parental, Caregiver or Medical Leave The resident/fellow may be permitted to take up to twelve (12) weeks per year of family and medical leave (includes paid and unpaid leave) in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act

Rotation description Fellows will be engaged in inpatient or outpatient rotations during their first year of training. Their time will be split evenly between the two services. During their outpatient time, they will maintain a fellow’s clinic so that they acquire and follow a panel of patients during their three years of training. During the second year of training, fellows will have several months of sub-specialty time to cover important topics such as Gynecologic Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Hematopathology, Blood Bank, and outpatient service. In their third year, while they will continue

The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship is a 3-year program. We are an ACGME accredited program for a maximum of 6 fellows and accept two fellows each academic year. Our program accepts applications only through ERAS and does not accept H1B visas. We will be participating in the national fellowship match which opens August 21, 2024, and the deadline to apply is August 31, 2024. We will have 2 positions open for the 2025-2026 academic year. Our interviews will be in person and take place on Fridays in late August through September. Match

This week SIU Alton Family Medicine Residency's own Dr. M. Rebecca Hoffman took over the local Alton airwaves to talk about our new program. Check it out! http://altondailynews.com/shared/inc/client/17/broadcastAudio/686180707…

Social media, here we come! SIU Alton Family Medicine Medicine Residency has a Facebook presence now too. Follow us for all the exciting details as we build our program! The SIU Family Medicine Residency Program in Alton's profile: https://www.facebook.com/siualtonfamilymedicine/

July 7, 2020, ALTON, IL ─ The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine has added a new residency program to begin serving patients within SIU Alton Family Medicine next summer. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the program in May. Physicians in the program will provide care through partnerships with Alton Memorial Hospital (a BJC HealthCare facility), Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in

July 7, 2020, ALTON, IL ─ The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine has added a new residency program to begin serving patients within SIU Alton Family Medicine next summer. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved the program in May. Physicians in the program will provide care through partnerships with Alton Memorial Hospital (a BJC HealthCare facility), Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University in

The SIU Alton Family Medicine Program now has an Instagram and will be posting lots of photos and information as we move along. Head over to www.instagram.com/siualtonfamilymedicine to follow us and watch our journey! Look for our Instagram logo:

SIU School of Medicine authors published 45 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. ( Display the 45 citations in PubMed