Courses & Curriculum

The multicultural team at our School offers courses and seminars that span health programs.

Medical Student Phase One

ACHIEVE Diversity Seminar Series

The Office of Student Affairs & Admissions offers a wide range of services and resources to help medical students set and reach their goals for academic and career success and personal and financial wellness. The ACHIEVE Diversity Seminar Series is delivered to medical students in conjunction with the Associate Dean for Multicultural Education, Dr. Victoria Haynes.

Each session was developed in response to student feedback and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) recommendations for medical curriculum. The diversity seminar series is updated regularly based on student feedback to ensure we provide relevant diversity, equity, and inclusion resources.

Within the sessions, students learn about diversity challenges at UND, diverse patient and physician experiences, and cultural considerations. The diversity seminar series is dedicated to providing students with the tools to serve all people in a culturally responsive and respectful manner. In order to accomplish this, the seminar series includes sessions on the following competencies:

Introduction to Multicultural Medical Education
- During this session, students will learn key terms and definitions related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and culture. Students will also learn the history of multicultural education at UND SMHS including land acknowledgement and repatriation efforts with Indigenous populations.
Health Disparities & the Impact of Discrimination in Healthcare
- During this session, students will learn about health disparities experienced by marginalized groups and the impact of these health disparities. Social determinants of health and health equity will also be covered as they relate to caring for diverse populations.
Cultural Competency in Healthcare
- During this session, students will learn about the cultural competency continuum and other terms related to cultural competence like cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity, cultural humility, and cultural safety. Students will assess where they fall on the cultural competence continuum and learn how to use resources to assist with personal cultural competence and racial identity formation.
Understanding Implicit Bias
- During this session, students will learn about implicit bias and how it can affect patient care. Students will have the opportunity to complete an implicit bias assessment and learn ways that they can help eliminate bias.
Understanding Microaggressions
- During this session, students will learn the impact of microaggressions on patients of color and from marginalized groups. Students will also learn ways to manage microaggressions when they occur and ways to advocate for patients that experience microaggressions.
Going from Bystander to Upstander
- During this session, students will learn how to go from being a bystander to being an upstander to help when managing issues related to racial bias, prejudice, and inequity in healthcare.
Caring for Diverse Patients Patient Panel Part One
- During this session, students will learn how to care for diverse patients by engaging in meaningful dialogue with a panel of patients from diverse backgrounds. Students will also use the information learned from this session to help prepare for part two that will include a panel of patient providers.
Caring for Diverse Patients Provider Panel Part Two
- During this session, students will learn how to care for diverse patients by engaging in meaningful dialogue with a panel of patient providers who have experience caring for diverse patients in a variety of clinical settings.

Each session is facilitated by the Associate Dean for Multicultural Education and/or faculty/staff with such training and experience.

Patient panel participants include patients from a variety of diverse backgrounds.

Provider panel participants include medically trained professionals who currently practice in a variety of clinical specialist areas and have experience caring for diverse populations.

Phase One Elective Course Offerings

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are threaded throughout the curriculum in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. The courses listed in this section have specific have a multicultural focus and objectives in addition to the required curriculum.

MED 9601-04 HeLa - The Mother of Modern Science
MED 9601-14 Inclusive Course Design for Med Prep
IMED 9510-01* Geriatric Medicine - Fargo, N.D.
MED 9601-09** Inclusive Teaching and Classroom Instruction Med Prep I

8 weeks, continues through Summer II as MED 9601-12

MED 9601-11 Introduction to American Sign Language (ASL)
MED 9601-12** Inclusive Teaching and Classroom Instruction Med Prep II

8 weeks, continues from Summer I as MED 9601-09

Phase Two: Reflectional Opportunities

During phase two, students are able to build on the content they learned in phase one and are provided opportunities to translate this content into clinical experiences and reflect on these experiences. Students complete clinical experiences and have course requirements. Additional Phase two programs/partners include:

Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP)

The mission of the GWEP Health Promotion Program is to advance the health and wellness of the greater Grand Forks area with a focus on increasing health equity within the community. Our goal is to promote psychosocial and physical well-being to residents through the provision of resident centered health counseling and motivational interviewing with an emphasis on underserved and elderly populations of the area.

Indians Into Medicine (INMED)

INMED is a comprehensive education program that assists American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students who are preparing for health careers.

MILE

Minot Integrated Longitudinal Experience (MILE) is a 44-week experience combining family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, neurology, psychiatry, and one 4-week rotation in rural family medicine.

ROME

Rural Opportunities in Medical Education (ROME) is a 20-28 week interdisciplinary experience in a rural primary care setting. The remainder of the clerkship is completed at an urban home campus site.

Elective Courses

Phase Three: Electives

MED 9555-03 Global Health Distance Learning - Virtual
EMRG 9502 Wilderness Medicine/Medical Education - Southwest (Bismarck) Campus
FMED 9102-01 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Hettinger, N.D.
FMED 9102-02 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship- Mobridge, S.D.
FMED 9125-01 Family Medicine Acting Internship - FM Residency - Bismarck, N.D.
FMED 9221 Urban Family Medicine Practice Acting Internship (AI) - Plains Medical Clinic LLC - Fargo, N.D.
FMED 9225-01 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Sanford Health - Mayville, N.D.
FMED 9225-02 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Ortonville Area Health Services - Ortonville, Minn.
FMED 9225-03 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Hillsboro, N.D.
FMED 9225-04 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Oakes, N.D.
FMED 9225-05 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Jamestown, N.D.
FMED 9225-06 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Moose Lake, Minn.
FMED 9225-07 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Morris, Minn.
FMED 9225-08 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Wahpeton, N.D.
FMED 9225-09 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Sanford Health - Canby, Minn.
FMED 9225-10 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Sanford Health - Perham, Minn.
FMED 9226-01 Family Medicine Acting Internship (AI) - Sanford Health Family Medicine Residency - Fargo, N.D.
FMED 9325-02 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Grafton, N.D.
FMED 9325-04 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Devils Lake, N.D.
FMED 9325-06 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - Northwood, N.D.
FMED 9325-07 Rural Family Medicine Acting Internship - First Care Health Center - Park River, N.D.
FMED 9326-01 Family Medicine Acting Internship - Altru Family Medicine Residency - Grand Forks, N.D.
FMED 9515 Going Rural Across North Dakota "GRAND" - See list within course link for possible location options or contact department.
FMED 9511 Diversity in Medicine - UND SMHS, Grand Forks & Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minn.

Health Sciences

Multicultural education is threaded throughout the health sciences curriculum at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. The courses listed in this section have a focus on multicultural education, in addition to the required health science program curriculum.

While each of the health sciences programs in our School are working toward enhancing multicultural content in their respective curricula, the list below from our Department of Occupational Therapy serves as an example of such effort in our health sciences programs.

OT 500 Culture & Occupation
OT 501 OT Process & Practice Contexts
OT 504 Occupation & Analysis
OT 503 Research Methods in OT 2: Outcomes to Translation to Practice
OT 539 Health & Disease Affecting Occupational Performance
OT 540 Evaluation of Occupational Performance
OT 543 Movement & Occupational Performance
OT 544 Introduction to Intervention
OT 600 Interventions for Mental Functions to Support Occupation
OT 601 Interventions for Neuromusculoskeletal & Movement Functions to Support Occupation
OT 602 Management & Advocacy for OT Practice
OT 612 Interventions for Sensory Functions to Support Occupation
OT 613 Interventions to Support Occupation in Community-Based Practice
OT 614 Innovative Practitioner