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UND\u2019s Indians Into Medicine program gets a boost from a \u2018semi-retired\u2019 supporter<\/p>\n

\u201cOur INMED program is, historically, the outstanding program in the country for training Native American physicians,\u201d says Dr. Charlie Christianson. \u201cSo, I said \u2018why not?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Charles E. Christianson, MD, MPH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christianson is referring to the Dr. Charles Christianson INMED Scholarship for Primary Care, a recent scholarship endowment he established with the UND Alumni Association & Foundation<\/a> to support students in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Indians Into Medicine<\/a> (INMED) program.<\/p>\n

Coinciding with INMED\u2019s 50th anniversary in 2023, the new endowment looks to support one INMED student per academic year, says Christianson, explaining his interest in the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I came here in 2001, I became aware of the INMED program, which I view as extremely important intellectually and emotionally for North Dakota and the country,\u201d says the \u201cmostly retired\u201d former SMHS Associate Dean for Clinical Education, who took advantage of the State of North Dakota\u2019s 50 percent match on scholarship gifts to public institutions. \u201cI really felt the tug. The INMED students are just a great bunch of young people and their drive to make a difference in people\u2019s lives is evident from day one of their training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the engineer\u2019s son is not from North Dakota originally, he admits that he found UND refreshing after several years in the Washington, D.C., area. A self-described \u201cchild of the sixties\u201d who took an early interest in health disparities between populations, public health, and the social and political determinants of health, Christianson says that he was also impressed at the strength of UND\u2019s Indigenous and rural health programs, all of which ran parallel to his own interests.<\/p>\n

So he stuck around\u2026for a quarter century.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I went to medical school, I was very concerned about social and political issues,\u201d adds Christianson, who earned his Master of Public Health degree and his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. \u201cMy experience in the public health school there set me on my path of clearly recognizing the importance of primary care, public health, and community medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is why Christianson took immediately to lecturing UND medical students not only on communication skills and professionalism, but the social determinants of health.<\/p>\n

He found a particularly receptive audience in INMED.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the things I really love talking to the students about,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I hope some of the INMED students see me as a bit of a kindred spirit. I just went to the North Dakota Medical Association meeting and there were a lot of mid-career docs there who were my students 10, 15 years ago. I said to some of them that it\u2019s like being a parent watching your kids grow up \u2013 seeing the seeds of their potential as INMED students growing into great doctors is particularly gratifying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also attracting Christianson to UND more than two decades ago was the uniqueness of the medical curriculum\u2019s group-based, patient-centered learning model.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat teaching method, with small, patient-centered groups, was and is really very innovative,\u201d he beams. \u201cIt\u2019s like nothing I\u2019d ever done before. I\u2019d always been educated and taught in sort of a traditional lecture model, and this is much, much better. UND was way ahead of what anybody else was doing, and it was really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concluding that the future of healthcare is in interprofessional, team-based patient care, Christianson notes that UND was ahead of the curve there too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solo doctor, by him- or herself out there, is just not the way it\u2019s going to be,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be teams with multiple different specialists and different health professions. And the UND medical school has been training to this model for 10 or 15 years now. That was cutting edge too.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this \u201creally put UND on the map,\u201d says Christianson. And he\u2019s hoping that it\u2019s all just the beginning for the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Dakotans are modest \u2013 they don\u2019t like to brag,\u201d he concludes. \u201cBut there are a lot of great things going on here, with the INMED program being one of the best. So, I\u2019m happy to support and help bring attention to the medical education of our outstanding Native American students. And, in choosing primary care, they can make a world of difference to the health of families and communities. In fact, based on my conversations with those I\u2019ve had the privilege of teaching, they already are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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