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.
In the final chapter of our series chronicling the journeys of medical students from Pillar 1 to Match Day, some of our newest graduates reflect on the challenges they’ve overcome and the triumphs that have shaped their paths to becoming physicians.
Dr. Brandt Becker, a 2008 alumnus of the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, gives back to his hometown of Pierre, South Dakota, by providing essential care through a variety of procedures and strong patient relationships.
Bill and Jill Schuneman, longtime residents of Milbank, South Dakota, have established the Bill & Jill Schuneman Family Excellence in Rural Medicine Scholarship at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. This endowed fund supports a third-year medical student who completes part of their clinical training through the FARM rural medicine program at Milbank Area Hospital.
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
