Northwestern McGaw Center for Graduate Medical Education

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Introduction

Program Overview McGaw is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation that sponsors, administers, and supports graduate medical education. The corporate members of McGaw are four independent hospitals and Northwestern University. The member hospitals of McGaw are Children’s Memorial Medical Center, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. McGaw also maintains an affiliation with the VA Chicago Health Care System.

Each member of McGaw is an independent entity and maintains sole management of and control over its own funds, properties, operations, and affairs. At the same time, each member has dedicated itself to the purposes of the Northwestern McGaw Center for Graduate Medical Education and affirms its obligations thereof. These obligations include (1) provision of a supportive educational environment based upon state-of-the art educational principles, emphasizing the highest ethical and professional standards and providing appropriate opportunity for scholarly endeavor; (2) routine assessment of program quality, and provision for ongoing quality improvement; and (3) the commitment of sufficient personnel and financial resources to support these endeavors.

Detailed information on the facilities and programs of the McGaw members and McGaw's VA affiliates may be found at their respective Web sites: www.enh.org , www.nmh.org , www.childrensmemorial.org, www.rehabchicago.org , and www.vagreatlakes.org.

 

McGaw reserves the right to change without prior notice any statement in this manual concerning, but not limited to, policies, procedures, benefits and privileges.

McGaw is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer.