Program Directors' Messages

Lisa J. Schock, M.D., Program Director

Welcome to the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Psychiatry Residency website. We are excited that you are considering our program for your residency education. Our program aims to train well-rounded psychiatrists ready to tackle the evolving advances and challenges in psychiatric care. We value exposure to a wide range of faculty and clinical sites, where you will have experiences working in a multi-specialty tertiary referral center, private free-standing psychiatric hospital, Veterans Administration Health Care System, Community Behavioral Health Clinics, North Dakota State Hospital, university settings, private clinics, and other community agencies. We offer unique experiences in continuity clinics, combination telemedicine/rural outreach clinic, integrated care with Family Medicine and Internal Medicine, eating disorders treatment, and clozapine clinic. Our residents have ample elective time to pursue interests such as research, neuromodulation, and Lifestyle Medicine. Many of our residents have gone on to train in highly competitive fellowships in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Sleep Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry.

We seek residents who are motivated, active participants in learning. Our program is close-knit, with significant time spent with classmates in didactics and clinic, and one on one supervision with faculty. Resident input is valued and helps shape the evolution of our program to meet the needs of our trainees.

I grew up in Fargo before completing my undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of North Dakota, going on to complete my psychiatric residency at our program. My experiences as a student and a resident at UND motivated me to become involved in medical education early in my career. After working in split practice/inpatient settings my clinical work primarily takes place at my private psychiatric practice where I specialize in providing transcranial magnetic stimulation. I take pride in the impact our residents, faculty, and program have on our patients and region.

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