News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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The UND LEADS Implementation Team is looking forward to sharing a campus-wide update on progress made under LEADS during the past year, and we’d appreciate your help spreading the word to your teams to encourage broad participation. UND has two opportunities coming up in March: LEADS in Action: Turning Data into Direction – March 3 […]
The School of Positive Psychology, a movement based on the work of Dr. Martin Seligman, identifies the following core pillars of concern for human wellness: Positive Experiences, Positive Individual Traits, and Positive Institutions. This past week I was working on linking these pillars to those within our School, and to well-being. (Thank you, Dr. Van […]
I am just back from a visit on behalf of the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME), the organization responsible for accrediting all medical schools in the United States. As I’ve mentioned before, the LCME operates under the purview of the U.S. Department of Education and relies on volunteers from the medical community (like me!) […]
To celebrate the release of the new UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Strategic Plan, the SMHS Office of Administration & Finance is sponsoring an ice cream social at the School! The social will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, in the SMHS East Atrium. Following the university’s UND LEADS […]
The UND SMHS has three foundational missions: education, discovery, and service to the people of North Dakota and the region. In fact, those three essential components of what we do as a school are embedded in the language of the North Dakota Century Code, the laws of the State of North Dakota that have been […]
As I’ve mentioned here before, one of the big projects that UND Human Resources (HR) has been working on over the past year, with assistance from the national firm Huron Consulting, has been an employee salary study. The analysis of UND employee salaries has been in three parts; Huron Consulting has helped/is helping with the […]
The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) has named Victoria Haynes, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C, the School’s new Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) following the relocation of Don Warne, the prior associate dean, to Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Haynes assumed her new role earlier this month. “I believe in the […]
Categories: From the Dean
I hope that you will be able to join me and your colleagues and friends for the annual Faculty Assembly, which will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, from 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. in the Charles H. Fee, M.D. Auditorium (E101) and virtually via this link. I will present an overview of the […]
Categories: From the Dean
The holiday season certainly is upon us! Over the past two weeks we’ve had five scheduled UND SMHS holiday gatherings – one on each of our four regional campuses in Grand Forks (Northeast campus), Fargo (Southeast campus), Bismarck (Southwest campus), and Minot (Northwest campus), along with a Holiday Luncheon this past Monday in our building […]
Two noteworthy events directly related to the UND SMHS took place yesterday. The first was a curriculum retreat to review the medical student curriculum and assess how optimally it is preparing the future doctors we are educating. This year’s meeting was especially important since we are in the midst of full implementation of the major […]