GRAND FORKS – The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences conferred the Doctor of Medicine degree on graduating medical students in a commencement ceremony Saturday in Grand Forks.

Graduates now will begin a post-graduate residency, a three- to seven-year period of advanced intensive training in their chosen medical specialty, before beginning independent practice.

Graduates who were assigned to Minot in their senior year and now have graduated are as follows, with hometown, undergraduate institution, residency program and location for postgraduate training listed:

– Thomas Baker, St. Augusta, Minnesota; St. Johns University; diagnostic radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.

– Trysten Beyer, Minot; Minnesota State University Moorhead; internal medicine, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Fargo.

– Katrina Blommel, Freeport, Minnesota; UND; surgery-preliminary, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.

– Trenton Bohan, Bismarck; UND; emergency medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center,

Lebanon, New Hampshire.

– Seth Buryska, Rochester, Minnesota; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; transitional, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, La Crosse, Wisconsin; diagnostic radiology, Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester, Minnesota.

– Matthew Cohoe, Williston; UND; med-preliminary/neurology, Zucker School of Medicine, Staten Island, New York.

– Jack Dirnberger, Waconia, Minnesota; Hamline University; transitional, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Fargo; diagnostic radiology, University Hospitals, Columbia, Missouri.

– Mika Green, Buffalo, Minnesota; UND; family medicine, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Bismarck.

– April Hagemeister, Fessenden; University of Minnesota; transitional, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Fargo; diagnostic radiology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

– Sean Keup, Plymouth, Minnesota; University of St. Thomas; emergency medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

– Abigail Pleiss, Mankato, Minnesota; University of Minnesota; obstetrics/gynecology, HCA Healthcare Kansas City, Overland, Kansas.

– Allie Stover, Fargo; UND; obstetrics/gynecology, University Hospitals, Columbia, Missouri.

– Alexa Weninger, Oxbow; North Dakota State University; internal medicine, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Fargo.

Among other graduates were:

– Edjay Ralph Hernandez, Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines; Minot State University; anesthesiology/clinical scientist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

– Parker Heger, Underwood; Northern State University; urology, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois.

– Rebecca Rist, Glenburn, NDSU, diagnostic radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa.