Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health is teaming up with Grand Forks-based University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences to create a new orthopedic surgery residency program, according to West Fargo Pioneer.
Here are five notes:
1. The accredited residency program will train surgeons in bone and joint health.
2. Sanford and UND plan to launch the program, which has a budget of $2 million annually, in the summer of 2018.
3. Initially, it will hold three slots annually for five years, growing to a total of 15 residents.
4. Bruce Piatt, MD, a Sanford orthopedic surgeon, will serve as the residency program's director.
5. An endowment fund will sustain the program.