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.
Located near the Black Hills, in the heart of downtown Rapid City, the campus has been providing training for medical students since 1948.
Located in the heart of South Dakota's largest city, the Sioux Falls campus resides on the campus of Sanford Health and Sanford/USD Medical Center.
The Andrew E. Lee Memorial Medicine and Science Building serves as the home for the Sanford School of Medicine and the School of Health Sciences.
Home of our innovative Yankton ambulatory program, the Yankton campus offers state of the art learning adjacent to the Avera Sacred Heart Hospital and Yankton Medical Clinic.
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 Sanford School of Medicine's student wellness program was created to foster a healthy work-life balance. Medical school can be intense, but we aim to work with our students to help you thrive and grow through the program. The program's motto is "Well students. Well doctors. Well patients."
We have long been recognized for excellence in rural medical education. Our Frontier And Rural Medicine (FARM) program is a unique opportunity for select Pillar 2 students to receive nine months of clinical training in rural communities with the goal to increase the number of primary care physicians who practice in rural South Dakota areas.
The Medical School promotes and supports the engagement of USD medical students in a wide variety of research and scholarly activities with the recognition that research plays an important role in the field of medicine.
At the Sanford School of Medicine, our faculty members are not only educators, but mentors and innovators as well. To create the most comprehensive and well-rounded learning environment, we offer helpful resources for all faculty members.
The Sanford School of Medicine reaches more than 3,900 alumni across the country with opportunities to connect through student initiatives, The South Dakotan M.D. magazine, events and programs. As alumni, they are members of an amazing network of health care professionals who continue to learn from one another. Join our students, residents and faculty in participating in activities that build and maintain relationships for a lifetime.
Artwork from the series “Power Grid Cat” by Judith R. Peterson, M.D., MPH, is currently on display on the first-floor gallery of the I.D. Weeks Library building in Vermillion now through Dec. 6.
The University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine has announced that Byron Nielsen, M.D., clinical professor, has been named the Pillar 3 director of medical student education.
Thanks to a South Dakota Humanities Council grant, the University of South Dakota Wegner Health Sciences Library is the beneficiary of a grant that will allow for additional efforts in advancing the humanities in health.
