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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 Pamela Knudson, Wanda Weber, Matt Young (Casper College)
www.ndmedicine.org
DESIGN Eric Walter
CONTENT Wendy Opsahl
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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What is a medical resident?
Residency – n. 2.a) a period of advanced, specialized medical or surgical training at a hospital.
Residents are physicians who have completed the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) degree and are enrolled in postgraduate training programs, from three to five years in length, in the medical specialty of their choice.
Although there are nearly 30 fields that students could pursue, UND offers residency training only in specialties most needed in North Dakota and the region: family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry and surgery, and a one-year transitional program for students going on for training in programs that require one year of training prior to admission. (Graduates of UND and other medical schools may apply for admittance to these programs.) UND medical school graduates who wish to pursue careers in other fields (such as pediatrics, radiology, dermatology, anesthesiology, obstetrics-gynecology) must leave the state for residency training.
Residents are not medical students. Under the supervision of experienced, residency program physician-faculty members, they provide medical care with a license, issued to residents only, that allows them to practice for one year (for U.S. medical school graduates) or two years (for graduates of foreign medical schools).
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