Ten medical schools that have contributed the most to the pipeline of family physicians were honored when the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) presented its Top Ten Awards during the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference on April 27 in Seattle. The awards recognize schools that, during a three-year period, graduate the greatest percentage of students who choose first-year family medicine residency positions.
     The University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is one of the top medical schools in the country for producing family medicine physicians, with 18.1 percent. The overall U.S. match rate for family medicine this year is 8.4 percent, according to the AAFP, and thus the SMHS produces more than twice the family physicians per class as the typical medical school in the United States. The other regional school recognized by the AAFP was the Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, with 15.2 percent; the University of Minnesota was not in the top ten this year. To read more, please visit http://bit.ly/ISregh.