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USD medical school asks for $300,000 annual base to establish emergency medicine clinical department, cites residency pipeline needs
Summary
The University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine asked appropriators for $300,000 in ongoing funding to create a Department of Emergency Medicine to support a new Sanford Health emergency residency and strengthen rural emergency-care workforce pipelines.
The University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine asked the joint appropriations committee for $300,000 in ongoing general-fund support to create a Department of Emergency Medicine at the medical school. Dean Tim Ridgeway framed the request as a state–health-system partnership intended to strengthen emergency-care training and retain physicians in South Dakota communities.
Why it matters: Graduate medical education (residency) slots and academic-clinical partnerships are the primary pipelines that keep newly trained physicians practicing in-state. USD’s request is targeted to create…
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