University of North Dakota Program

Program Identity & Fit

UND's Fargo Internal Medicine program is a small, university-sponsored, community-based residency built on a single partnership with Sanford Health and the Fargo VA, emphasizing individualized education and close faculty-resident relationships over the scale of larger academic centers. Clinical training spans inpatient, critical care, cardiology, VA subspecialty, geriatrics, and community medicine rotations, with no 24-hour call and a night-float structure, reflecting an explicit wellness and lifestyle orientation. Scholarly activity is built into training (a mandatory scholarly project, dedicated research blocks, an internal research symposium, and consistent resident presentations at ACP/SHM/national meetings), but the career outcomes lean toward broad internal medicine practice—hospital medicine, primary care, and dualist roles—alongside a track record of fellowship matches (cardiology, GI, heme-onc, pulm-crit care, geriatrics, allergy-immunology, ID, nephrology, palliative care). The program values self-directed, collaborative residents who will thrive in a tight-knit environment and explicitly individualizes curricula to match each resident's ultimate career goal, whether generalist or subspecialist.