Applicant Requirements

Overview

Our criteria for selecting candidates for a residency position attempts to balance the many competing interests that vie for these spots and the many bodies that govern how they are apportioned including:

1. Legislated preference for UND SMHS graduates
2. Requirements by the North Dakota Board of Medical Examiners
3. Accreditation requirements by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
4. The rules of the Match as dictated by the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP)
5. The interests of our three sponsoring hospitals
6. An ethical duty to treat candidates fairly, and above all
7. Duty to our patients and the people of North Dakota to choose candidates who will provide excellent and safe patient care

For those still enrolled in medical school:

1. Only applications through ERAS are accepted. All applications are screened using preset criteria, and interviews are offered based on this vetting process.
2. Interviews with faculty, staff and residents are done.
3. Faculty and residents as well as selected staff all develop the rank order list which is entered with the NRMP.
4. We will not rank any candidate who has not successfully completed USMLE Step I and Step II including the Clinical Skills portion.
5. Two US clinical rotations, at least one in family medicine, are required.
6. J-1 Visas are accepted by the program.

For those not currently enrolled in medical school:

1. Only applications through ERAS are accepted.
2. Applications go through the same screening process as above.
3. If the candidate has been out of medical school for more than five years, or has USMLE scores less than 210 on either Step I or Step II, they must apply for an observership to be eligible for an interview.  Requests for observership can be emailed to the Admissions Office. saa@und.edu.
4. All other rules apply as above.