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House and Learning Community Program

The House and Learning Community Program seek to strengthen the medical school experience through dynamic, engaged, and relationship-centered communities for curricular and co-curricular learning and development. The program includes four houses that link sixteen learning communities across the four years of medical school, connecting students in a network of faculty, residents, staff, and fellow students with varying interests and levels of experience.

Each learning community is led by a dedicated faculty mentor, who is also a practicing physician. Each entering class of medical students is assigned to one of the four learning community mentors who stay with that group of students through their entire four years of medical school. Our community mentors are highly valued by their students, and they are essential to our efforts to offer a nurturing and professional learning environment at Chicago Medical School. Learning community mentors support student development through mentoring, advising, and social support.  These efforts are aimed at supporting the personal, academic, and professional development of our students.

Learning Communities

There are sixteen Learning Communities at Chicago Medical School, including four per class. The learning communities are structured contexts for advising, mentoring, social support and learning.

2021-2022 Learning Community Mentors:

Emanuel House

Jincy Joseph

Jincy Joseph, MD

Family Medicine

M1 Mentor
Lisa Kasalajtis

Lisa Kasalajtis, MD '00

Internal Medicine

M2 Mentor
Nitika Pant

Nitika Pant, MD '11

Psychiatry

M3 Mentor
Eugene Saltzberg

Eugene Saltzberg, MD '72

Emergency Medicine

M4 Mentor

Finkel House

Jennifer DocheƩ

Jennifer DocheƩ, MD '06

Internal Medicine

M1 Mentor
Monique Jones

Monique Jones, MD '93

Obstetrics and Gynecology

M2 Mentor
Liza Pilch

Liza Pilch, MD

Emergency Medicine

M3 Mentor
Erica Taylor

Erica Taylor, MD

Obstetrics and Gynecology

M4 Mentor

Lipschultz House

Pallavi Shah

Pallavi Shah, MD

Internal Medicine

M1 Mentor
Jonathan Daniels

Jonathan Daniels, MD

Internal Medicine

M2 Mentor
Amanda Lund

Amanda Lund, DO

Internal Medicine

M3 Mentor
Bruce Goldberg

Bruce Goldberg, MD

Orthopedic Surgery

M4 Mentor

Portes House

Rakhi Khanna

Rakhi Khanna, DO

Internal Medicine - Nephrology

M1 Mentor
Paul Jones

Paul Jones, MD

Pediatric Otolaryngology

M2 Mentor
Rene Roberts

Rene Roberts, MD

Family Medicine

M3 Mentor
Susan Scanlon

Susan Scanlon, MD

Obstetrics and Gynecology

M4 Mentor