UND is Growing Physicians And Physician Assistants

(University of North Dakota photo)

(By Brian James Schill. UND Today) – Facing an audience of physicians at a recent North Dakota Medical Association meeting, Dr. Marjorie Jenkins, dean of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences and the University’s vice president for Health Affairs, paused to let the figures on the screen behind her sink in.

“We saw more than 1,800 total applicants to our M.D. program last year, just over 100 of whom were North Dakota students,” she explained. “The delta between total and North Dakota applications was more than 1,600.”

Seeing these numbers, she tells her colleagues, the medical college’s admissions team got to work on narrowing that gap.

After the SMHS Admissions Committee screened applications and offered interviews to about 10% of those 1,800-plus applicants — more than 80 of whom were from North Dakota — today’s M.D. Class of 2029 consists of nearly 50 North Dakotans out of a class size of nearly 80, Jenkins said.