The teaching staff includes 40 full-time basic and clinical sciences faculty. The entire faculty constitutes the governing body responsible for policy making. The school’s Educational Policy Committee includes student representatives. The responsibility for selecting each year’s entering class is delegated to the Committee on Admissions, whose members are chosen from the Medical School faculty, the other UMD faculties, community physicians, and non-physician representatives from the region.
The part-time and voluntary clinical sciences faculty consists of more than 300 area physicians representing all the major medical specialties. Their close interrelationship with the full-time faculty in presenting the curriculum ensures a practical as well as academic approach to training family physicians. With exposure to patients beginning the first semester, students become proficient in taking accurate medical histories and performing physical examinations under expert guidance. In addition, students spend ample time learning sciences basic to medicine.
The Medical School Duluth campus is one of four cosponsors of the Family Practice Residency Program that is based at the Duluth Family Practice Center. Together, the Miller-Dwan Medical Center, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Mary’s Medical Center, and the Medical School Duluth compose the Duluth Graduate Medical Education Council, Inc.
The Medical School Duluth moved into a new facility in March 1979. In 1997, an addition to this facility was opened that added student small group learning space, expanded faculty research laboratory facilities, administrative space for Admissions and Student Affairs personnel, and an expanded Learning Resource Center. The Medical School Duluth is fully contained in this building, which includes classrooms, teaching laboratories, student study and lounge areas, faculty and staff offices, and labs and animal facilities.
The Medical School Duluth has established affiliation agreements with St. Luke’s Hospital and Miller-Dwan and St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Health System. These hospitals and clinical facilities provide medical students with access to an extremely diverse patient population from the northern regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
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