The
University of North Dakota School of Medicine
& Health Sciences UNDSMHS is one of about
two dozen "community-based" medical
schools in the United States. "Community-based"
means that the school is integrated into the
medical system of communities where practicing
physicians serve as members of the school's
faculty. Physicians teach medical students
in hospital, clinic and other settings in
about 30 communities throughout North Dakota.
The
UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences
is located in an interconnected complex of
new and renovated facilities on the northeast
edge of the UND campus in Grand Forks. The
new additions, completed in 1995, include
the Edwin C. James Medical Research Facility
and the Karl Christian Wold, M.D., Bio-Information
Learning Resources Center which houses the
Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences.
The complex includes the Center for Rural
Health, department offices, classrooms and
laboratories for instruction of medical students
in the basic medical sciences, and teaching
facilities for nursing, clinical laboratory
science, physical therapy, physician assistant
and graduate programs, as well as administrative
offices. In the fall of 2000, the Biomedical
Research Facility opened as part of the School
of Medicine complex at Fifth and North Columbia
Road.
