Category 1 Conferences at UniMed Medical Center are held on the first and fourth Thursdays. When there is a fifth opportunity in the month, the conference is open to either hospital and will be announced on flyers visible throughout the respective hospital. On all other days of the week as well as on Thursdays if a hospital conference is cancelled, there will be an educational opportunity for students and resident physicians at the Minot Center for Family Medicine in the Third-Floor Conference Room. While all hospital conferences have been approved for CME credit, Minot Center for Family Medicine conferences do not offer credits. Conferences do, however, offer the expertise of local physicians in a wide range of medical specialties which includes an occasional administrative medical topic related to practice management, computer use for medline searching or e-mail communications, appropriate coding or laboratory science.
Attendance is mandatory for residents and encouraged for medical students while on campus.