The USD Sanford School of Medicine, with its award-winning curriculum and outstanding reputation in family medicine and rural medicine, prepares medical students for practice in all fields of medicine.
An unwavering commitment to kindness is both an ordinary and bold declaration. Our medical school is unique in making kindness an overarching expectation of how patients, students and colleagues are to be treated. A culture of kindness places our medical school on the threshold of making an enduring impact on medical education.
Jerome W. Freeman
M.D., F.A.C.P., Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosciences
The University of South Dakota Division of Health Affairs has been awarded a $1.1 million federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to train future health care workers in delivering cutting-edge telehealth services to South Dakota patients.
In a partnership with the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at the University of California San Diego, the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine has launched the Compassion Ambassador Program (CAmP).
Born and raised in Sioux Falls, Chris Keyser is now in his fourth year of medical school. However, he is not by any means a traditional medical student.
