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Primary Care Week 2023 will be held in-person and online from Oct. 23-27. A full schedule of the Week’s events follows: Monday, Oct. 23 “Incorporating Mental Health and Addiction Medicine into a Primary Care Practice” with Dr. Melissa Henke Intended audience: all health profession students • lunch provided by ND Professional Health Program When: noon […]

Do you have a reference question? Try the SMHS Library Resources new chat reference service! Library Resources has a new platform and librarians standing by to help you with your research and information needs. Click on the chat icon on the library’s homepage Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to start a […]

For the next Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Mariah Laver Juanto, Ph.D., will present “An Overview of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)” from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at the UND Southeast Campus auditorium in Fargo. Dr. Laver Juanto is licensed psychologist at Sanford Behavioral Health in Fargo, N.D., and a clinical instructor for […]

I’ve mentioned various upcoming UND and UND SMHS events in prior columns, but here is a brief update regarding this coming week’s schedule. Please access the accompanying information below for further details: Java with Josh, Thursday, Sept. 28 – Please log on and join us for a virtual event during which I will update the […]

The Fall 2023 issue of North Dakota Medicine magazine is now available in both online and paper formats. This issue’s feature stories include: Setting the pace – UND’s Department of Sports Medicine celebrates 30 years of leading the nation in best practice care for student athletes. From plains to peaks – UND’s satellite occupational therapy program in Casper, Wyo., celebrates […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 28, Susan Farkas, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Neurocardiology: Broken Heart and other zebras.” The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. Rm. […]

UND’s Department of Sports Medicine celebrates 30 years of leading the nation in best practice care for student athletes. In the end, making history took only 25 words. “This is to express support for the location of the Athletic Training Education Program in the School of Medicine at the University of North Dakota.” With the […]

UND medical students get hands-on dermatology education at the Fargo Center for Dermatology. It’s really quite simple, said Dr. Rachel Ness from her office at the Fargo Center for Dermatology (FCD). “If you want to protect your skin, the most economical, smartest thing you can do is just good sun protection,” explained the UND School […]

UND’s satellite occupational therapy program in Casper, Wyo., celebrates 30 years of rural health delivery. As a product of the program in which she now teaches, Nicole Harris understands the challenge: how to provide occupational therapy to an overwhelmingly rural population. “People worry about a level of saturation – that there’ll be no jobs – […]

The UND Center for Rural Health Scrubs Academy I returns to UND. Throughout the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) building, middle school students wearing green t-shirts could be seen walking the halls in groups and talking excitedly with one another this past June. Despite their tender age, these […]