Benefits
Our fellows are employees of Northwestern's McGaw Center for Graduate Medical Education. Detailed information about our fellow's benefits, including health insurance and stipends, can be found here. The McGaw housestaff manual is also available online.
Holidays
Children's Memorial observes seven legal holidays:
- New Year's Day (January 1)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (third Monday in January)
- Memorial Day (last Monday in May)
- Independence Day (July 4)
- Labor Day (first Monday in September)
- Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday in November)
- Christmas (December 25)
The department is closed on these days. Holidays do not count as part of our fellows' annual vacation allowance.
Child Care
Fellows are eligible to enroll their children in the Bernice E. Lavin Children's Care Center, which is located on the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine campus, approximately a five-minute walk from the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.