How to Apply

Thank you for your interest in the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

We offer eight categorical positions, beginning July 1, through the National Residency Match Program (NRMP).

Our program is located in Fargo, N.D., the largest city in North Dakota. It is a city known for its safety, quality of life, excellence in school systems, three universities, a low crime rate and low cost of living.

The Department of Internal Medicine utilizes Sanford Health and the Fargo VA Health Care System for its training sites. Sanford Health is a large, multi-specialty group practice with two integrated hospitals committed to excellence in patient care, education and research. Sanford Health is the 13th largest integrated medical group practice in the country and has been acknowledged as one of the top ranked Cancer and Heart Centers in the country. Serving a tri-state area, over 1.5 million patients visit Sanford Health yearly. For nearly a century, Sanford Health has provided state-of-the-art care.

The program is unique in that it is a small university program, which provides individual attention to all residents. The emphasis is to develop skilled internists who can practice in a wide range of settings, from the general internist in a small town to the fellowship trained subspecialist in a multi-specialty practice.

All applications to the Internal Medicine residency program must be submitted through ERAS.

Application deadline for each year is November 1

Screening Criteria:

• Applicants must pass USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 (CK) or COMLEX Level 1 and 2.
• Clinical experience or formal professional/graduate education in the US is strongly preferred but not required.
• The Selection Committee reviews the full ERAS application - focusing on the Curriculum Vitae (CV), two letters of recommendation, personal statement, USMLE scores and Medical School Performance Evaluation. To be accepted, applications must be complete by November 1.

  • Following guidelines for categorical internal medicine applicants given by the AAIM, we recommend candidates provide a minimum of two required letters:

    • 1. a clinical LOR from an internal medicine faculty member, internal medicine Department Chair, or DOM Summary Letter of Evaluation.
    • 2. a LOR from another internal medicine faculty member, separate clinical faculty member, or a scholarly project mentor.
• Although there are no minimum scores required, candidates with higher scores will be more competitive for the residency.
• You must have been enrolled in medical school, a relevant graduate degree program, a post-graduate residency-training program or have been active in medical practice within the past three years. 
• All applicants for licensure in North Dakota who are graduates of foreign medical schools, except the medical schools of Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, are required to have ECFMG certification by February 15.
• We sponsor J-1 visas.
• We sponsor H-1B visas on a case by case basis. To qualify for H-1B visa, Step 3 passing results must be received no later than March 31st.

Signaling and Personal Statement

While we preferentially review applications from those who signal our program, we also consider applicants who do not signal us.

To help us further identify applicants that are genuinely interested in our program, we strongly encourage you to include an explanation in your personal statement concerning what appeals to you about the UND Internal Medicine residency program and/or why you would like to live and work in Fargo-Moorhead or the upper Midwest generally.

Interview Information

If your application meets the UND Internal Medicine Residency criteria, then you will be considered for an interview. Selected candidates will be notified by email through our recruitment system (Thalamus), with an invitation to choose their interview day from our available dates.

The majority of our interview invitations will be extended by October 10^th. After this time, we may continue to offer additional limited interview invitations or wait list slots as they become available. If you do not receive an invitation to interview with our program by December 15^th, we regret that we were unable to offer you an interview this season.

Interviews will take place from early November through mid-December and will be conducted using a hybrid format. Applicants may choose to interview either in person or virtually. We recognize that not all applicants are able to interview in person. Please be assured that your choice to interview either in person or virtually will have no impact in our ranking decision.