School of Medicine & Health Sciences
How will you help heal the world?
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We offer North Dakota's only four-year doctor of medicine degree. Students spend their first two years in Grand Forks before training at clinical sites across the state.
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In addition to medicine, we offer professional degrees in medical laboratory science, sports medicine, public health, physician assistant studies, and physical and occupational therapy.
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Researchers specializing in epigenetics, neurodegenerative diseases, infectious disease, and health disparities conduct over $20 million of research annually.
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Donor support in recent years has helped us lower medical student debt from well above to well below the national average relative to students at other U.S. medical schools.
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From our quarterly magazine North Dakota Medicine to our annual community report Vital Signs, the latest UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences publications are all online.
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Celebrating 40 years, the CRH is North Dakota's State Office of Rural Health, a federally designated office that helps rural communities build their health services through collaborations with a wide range of partners.