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UND medical school requests recurring SIMND funding, curricular support and a maternal mortality review committee
Summary
The UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences asked legislators for $2 million recurring for its statewide mobile simulation program (SIMND), an $8.1 million curricular funding increase tied to a curricular refresh, a $250,000 biennial maternal mortality review committee appropriation, and direction on unused hyperbaric chamber funding.
Marjorie Jenkins, dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, told the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division that the medical school is making several programmatic and operating requests tied to enrollment, accreditation and statewide clinical training.
Jenkins asked the committee to fund $2 million in recurring support for SIMND, the school's statewide simulation program that deploys high‑fidelity mobile training units to rural hospitals and emergency responders. She said SIMND has trained more than 30,000 health workers and that the program recently won a $1.3 million Economic Development Administration grant to buy new…
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