North Dakota’s ‘grow our own’ strategy aims to tackle doctor shortage

Where do we get our doctors? Most medical providers are faced with the question, and the problem isn’t unique to Minot or North Dakota. In Fargo, Sanford is finding that adding residency programs gives them an inside track to hiring directly after training is completed.

Up the road in Grand Forks, UND Medical School has expanded their class sizes. The goal: train more doctors. And what they’re finding, we have a better chance of retaining our own home grown doctors.