News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) third annual Interprofessional Health (IPH) Day was held on Friday, Sept. 18. The event gave students from different health professions in North Dakota an opportunity to learn more about one another’s roles and practice working together as members of an interprofessional healthcare team. Approximately 275 students […]
The Spring 2025 issue of North Dakota Medicine magazine is now available in both online and paper formats. This issue’s feature stories include: Team training for North Dakota: Dr. Jenkins on bringing the health professions in closer proximity. Into the fold: UND’s mobile simulation program SIM-ND will use a $1.3 million EDA grant to expand its reach […]
Categories: Education
Join UND SMHS Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLAS) for its forthcoming faculty development session, “Simulation Principles and Implementation in Medical and Health Sciences Education,” presented by Courtney Maguire, M.S.N., R.N. The event will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. (Central) on Wednesday, Nov. 14, and take place via Zoom (if prompted for a passcode, […]
Earlier this week I attended a meeting of the North Dakota University System (NDUS) that included members from the State Board of Higher Education (SBHE). The theme of the meeting was to review the final reports of the nine groups that have been working on strategic planning related to the various missions and activities of […]
Categories: From the Dean
This week we had two poignant but bittersweet gatherings that I forementioned in prior columns. The first one (on Tuesday) was a celebration of the life of Judy DeMers, our former associate dean of the Office of Student Affairs and Admissions, who passed away in March at the age of 79. The turnout for the […]
Last Saturday we welcomed 65 new physicians into the medical profession during the UND SMHS Medical Doctor Commencement ceremony, and tomorrow we will graduate more than 240 health sciences and graduate students during UND Spring Commencement. The guest speaker at last week’s event, selected by the graduating medical students as their commencement speaker, was Dr. […]
Categories: Education
The next UND Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds event, “Mastering Medical Error Disclosure: Innovative Strategies for Improving Patient Safety Outcomes using Simulation,” will be broadcast via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20. This presentation features Kanwardeep Arora, M.D., FACP, firm chief at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, Conn., assistant professor of […]
Categories: From the Dean
I’m looking forward to attending the upcoming annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in two weeks, along with about a dozen of my colleagues from the UND SMHS. Known as “Learn, Serve, Lead,” this event will be the first AAMC annual meeting I’ve attended since 2019 due to the pandemic. The […]
Categories: Events
The medical simulation teams at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) and College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines (CNPD) are celebrating Simulation in Healthcare Week 2023 with a series of events Sept. 18-22, including open houses for both programs’ medical simulation facilities on the UND campus. The largest and most active center of […]
Simulation In Motion – North Dakota (SIM-ND), a mobile project of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Simulation Center, the North Dakota Department of Health, and several area health providers, is hosting an “open house” next week. SIM-ND is a statewide, mobile education system where replica emergency rooms, ambulance […]