Montana Family Medicine Residency Miles City Program

Program Identity & Fit

Montana's first family medicine residency, MFMR is a community-based, FQHC-anchored program embedded within RiverStone Health (also the Yellowstone County public health department) and affiliated with the University of Washington WWAMI network, training full-spectrum family physicians for rural and underserved Montana practice. Clinical training spans an FQHC continuity clinic, two Level I trauma centers (Billings Clinic, St. Vincent/Intermountain Health) drawing from a 500-mile catchment, rural rotations, Native American and VA population exposure, and international global health electives in Mongolia and Peru. Distinctive named tracks—Wilderness Medicine (with Wilderness Medical Society fellowship pathway), Public Health & Advocacy (with University of Montana public health credit and legislative exposure), Integrative Medicine, and an OB Track with defined delivery/procedure goals—signal strong career differentiation beyond generic outpatient practice, alongside a 3-year Frontier Training Program option in Miles City. The program explicitly selects for commitment to underserved populations, full-spectrum rural practice, and team fit rather than subspecialty or research prestige, with 160 graduates and nearly 100 still practicing in Montana underscoring a rural-retention mission.