University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Research is also a very important part of the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. In fiscal year 2020, research awards totaled nearly $31 million. The Center's programs include the nationally recognized Rural Health Information Hub, the National Resource Center on Native American Aging and other programs. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed former Center for Rural Health Director, Dr. Mary Wakefield, the Administrator of the Human Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). ==History==

The school was founded in 1905 to provide the first two years of medical education, first offering students a Bachelor of Sciences in Medicine (BS Med) degree. In 1973, the school began granting the MD degree to students, though the third year of medical school was spent at either Mayo Medical School or the University of Minnesota Medical School. The School expanded to the full four-year medical curriculum in 1981, and the school phased out the exchange third year by 1984. In May 2013, the 63rd Assembly of the North Dakota Legislature approved funding for a new $124 million, 325,000-square-foot, four-story building on the northeast corner of the UND campus. This building was completed in the summer of 2016 and opened on August 1, 2016. ==References==