‘We train them in a rural setting’: Residency program brings doctors to rural Montana

Dr. Stella Selden plans to work as a doctor in northwest Montana. And that means making house calls.

On a December afternoon, the third-year medical resident in the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana program joined Dr. Heather Jones on a drive down a narrow road southeast of Polson to the home of Lorna Tougas. Once they had stepped into Tougas’s sunlit living room, Jones introduced Selden and explained that she was a medical resident.