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NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES
CHARLES E. KUPCHELLA, President, University of North Dakota
H. DAVID WILSON, Vice President for Health Affairs
Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
WRITERS Pamela Knudson, Amanda Scurry
CONTRIBUTORS Blanche Abdallah, Wendy Opsahl
GRAPHIC DESIGN John Lee, Victoria Swift
PHOTOGRAPHY Chuck Kimmerle, Richard Larson, Wanda Weber
COVER ART John Lee
www.ndmedicine.org
DESIGN Eric Walter
CONTENT Amanda Scurry
NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE (ISSN 0888-1456; USPS 077-680) is published five times a year (April, July, September, December, February) by the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Room 1000, 501 N. Columbia Road Stop 9037, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037.
Periodical postage paid at Grand Forks ND.
Printed at Fine Print Inc., Grand Forks, ND.
All articles published in NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE, excluding photographs and copy concerning patients, can be reproduced without prior permission from the editor.
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MD Class of 2006 member Julie Kenien and her father and mentor Alan Kenien, M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics, Fargo ND |
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Graduates Choose Primary Care Fields
Primary care specialties remain the most popular fields for senior medical students who received the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree this spring from the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Nearly half (45.3 percent) of the 54-member M.D. Class of 2006 chose to pursue residency training in primary care fields, which are family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics or combined medicine-pediatrics, beginning this summer, according to Judy DeMers (BSN ’66), associate dean for student affairs and admissions.
Pediatrics is the most popular specialty among this year’s graduating medical students – nine will pursue that specialty, followed by surgery (eight), family medicine (seven), internal medicine (seven) and obstetrics-gynecology (five), DeMers said.
UND’s 2006 M.D. graduates will pursue 14 different specialties and will spend the first year of residency in 16 states, she said.
“Most of our students seem to prefer the Upper Midwest,” DeMers noted, “with 13 selecting Minnesota programs, followed by 11 in North Dakota, five in Iowa and four in Michigan.”
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