In June we are going to graduate from Montana’s medical college and start our careers as resident-physicians in coaching. For the previous 50 years, WWAMI, Montana’s public medical college partnership, has been rising the following era of physicians to serve native communities. We would like all Montanans to take delight on this homegrown method and say thanks to your help.
The WWAMI program is a four-year medical college proper right here in Montana operated by means of a partnership between Montana State College and the top-ranked College of Washington College of Medication. The acronym stands for the 5 states that make up the collective program — Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Montana WWAMI admits 30 college students per 12 months, most of whom are like us — born and raised proper right here in Montana with commitments to return to the state to observe drugs. This system additionally prioritizes college students who plan to observe major care and even designates practically half of every coming into class to a rural drugs observe.
One of many strengths of this system is its reference to the College of Washington, which is ranked No. 1 within the nation for each major care and household drugs schooling. As Montana WWAMI college students, we prepare in each Montana and Seattle, bringing again the educational rigor of UW to our hometowns and all through the state.
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Due to the educational energy of Montana WWAMI, we’re effectively poised to take residency positions at a number of the most well-respected coaching applications in our chosen specialties. And after residency, which is three to seven years of necessary coaching after medical college for brand spanking new physicians, we’re planning to return to our residence state to observe.
The standard of medical coaching in and for Montana issues. The residents coaching now can be caring for our communities, our youngsters, our dad and mom and can relieve present docs caring for our state. Montana is perhaps rural and small in inhabitants, however all of us deserve entry to world-class well being care. And WWAMI delivers.
As a public medical college, Montana WWAMI just isn’t motivated by revenue or different pursuits, and its college students, like us, have a observe document of changing into in-state doctor leaders for the previous 50 years. New personal or for-profit medical faculties might deliver in additional medical college students, most of them from out of state, however they’re unlikely to return to observe in Montana after having to do their scientific coaching elsewhere. College students in these new applications can have considerably extra debt than Montana WWAMI grads, which issues as our state’s price of residing continues to climb.
WWAMI focuses thoughtfully on high quality earlier than amount. The mission is offering sustainable, top-notch medical coaching to future Montana physicians. The WWAMI program is solely unbeatable in high quality, mission and repair to Montana. And it’s made up of Montanans, like us, planning to be your future physicians. This system has been diligently serving our state for 50 years, for that we are saying thanks, and let’s help and develop Montana’s medical college for the following 50 and past.
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Samantha Kropp, Neurology, Billings/Crimson Lodge
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Sam Forrest, Household Medication, Bozeman
Katie Hawkins, Inner Medication, Dillon
Kristen White, Household Medication/Obstetrics, Ennis
Robin Byron, Inner Medication, Hardin
Ethan Bent, Radiology, Lewistown
Kiera Bulluck, Inner Medication, Lewistown
Brooke Parker, Psychiatry, Anaconda
Joel Kramer, Normal Surgical procedure, Missoula
Kyle Malek, Bodily Medication & Rehabilitation, Missoula
Quin Stevens, Emergency Medication, Kalispell
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