The South Dakotan M.D. is the story hub of the USD Sanford School of Medicine. Here you’ll find stories and news highlighting the meaningful contributions of our students, faculty and staff, and alumni.
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Jan 05, 2024
Coyote Clinic Fills a Need, Provides Experience
The Coyote Clinic is a free clinic run by University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (SSOM) medical students that provides free health care services to uninsured members of the Sioux Falls community.
Jan 08, 2024
First Native American USD Medical School Graduate Sophie Two Hawk Deeply Rooted in Healing
Family matriarch Dr. Sophie Two Hawk ’87 was always certain her life’s path would lead her to be a healer, coming from several generations of holistic healers with a firm footing in whole-person health care.
Jan 08, 2024
Arts in Medicine Project Enhances Spaces
Medical schools throughout the U.S. have long recognized the benefits of an education steeped in humanities.
Jan 05, 2024
Behind the Technology, Operations of the Parry Center
Every learning session that occurs in the University of South Dakota’s Parry Center for Clinical Skills & Simulation requires substantial and meticulous preparation. At its simplest, detailed software must be configured for each encounter, and at its more complex, simulators and workstations need to all be synchronized with each other in a coordinated encounter.
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The Journey of a Medical Student: Part Two
Follow along the medical school journeys of six students in the University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine.
Driven to Serve: Alumnus Vance Thompson Delivers Compassionate Eye Care
Dr. Vance Thompson ’82, ’86 was one of the first ophthalmological surgeons to perfect the laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) procedure that would forever change vision correction.
Meet the Medical Student Affairs Staff
The University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine’s Medical Student Affairs staff members are integral to student success.
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FARM Adds Eighth Location in Chamberlain
Summary: The University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine’s Frontier And Rural Medicine (FARM) program’s newest site is Chamberlain, South Dakota, a community of 2,500 on the eastern banks of the Missouri River.
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From Farming to Family Medicine, Alumna Meghan Grassel Balances It All
Summary: Living on a farm just outside Mission Hill, South Dakota, with her husband, two-year-old and newborn sons, two foster children and countless farm animals, Meghan Grassel '23, M.D., is already busier than most. This self-admitted lover of all things agriculture not only manages a full house and farm, but she also just graduated from the University of South Dakota with an M.D. and MBA – and she makes it look easy.
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Cars and Care: Gaven Bowman Applies Skills Learned from Restoring Classics to Medical Career
Summary: Restoring classic cars, helping out on the family farm and beating his friends in Mario Kart tournaments are just a few of third-year Sanford School of Medicine (SSOM) student Gaven Bowman’s favorite pastimes. Restoring cars, a family affair for Bowman since his early days, has proven to have several parallels to the art of medicine in his eyes.
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Shooting for the Stars: Alumnus Spencer Lucas Draws Parallels Between Photography, Medicine
Summary: As an above-average golfer, a dog dad of two and a huge geek for endovascular surgery, Spencer Lucas ’23, M.D., may appear like every other medical student at first glance. But despite being “just a little busy” with medical school, Lucas has always found a way to make time for another passion: photography.
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Guest Column | Lizz & Robbie Nicholas
Elizabeth (Hoffman) Nicholas, a Eureka, South Dakota native, and Robert Nicholas, a Huron, South Dakota native, met at the University of South Dakota when they were both in the Alumni Student Scholars Program, each with the dream of becoming a doctor.
