F E AT U R E S T O RY
T HE CHE MIS T RY OF
RESIDENCY
MASK UP Medical residents from UND’s Center for Family Medicine in Bismarck on hand for a COVID testing event at the Bismarck Civic Center in May 2020.
For nearly 50 years the UND Centers for Family Medicine in Bismarck and Minot have produced exceptional family physicians prepared for rural practice. “You remember chromatography?” asks
That value can be visualized in the
– for sure in North Dakota,” Hostetter
Dr. Jeff Hostetter, program director for
spreading colors carried by a medium such
said, explaining how nearly 80 percent
UND’s Center for Family Medicine in
as water from the center to the margins of
of the family physicians in Bismarck-
Bismarck. He’s searching for a concise
a canvas – a white coffee filter, for example
Mandan area trained at one of these two
way of explaining the value the residencies
– in the experiment many of us conducted
residencies. “You look at the footprints of
housed in UND’s Bismarck- and Minot-
in middle school.
these residencies and see that within 20 or
based Centers for Family Medicine (CFM) add to rural healthcare in North Dakota.
“That’s how I think about these residencies and the physician shortage in all areas
30 miles of the residency there are plenty of family doctors. Out from there, though, you do see fewer.” North Dakota Medicine Spring 2021
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