Compassion and care: UM’s Family Medicine Residency earns high marks with physicians, patients

Megan Svec knew she wanted to be a doctor when she served in the Peace Corps in West Africa.

"I was sitting in a hospital there, and there were no providers except a locally trained nurse for a ward of 20 women, some of whom were sleeping on the floor," Svec said.

Svec, a resident physician with Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana, saw the shortage of providers, and believed she might have the opportunity to learn something helpful and share it.

Now, she’s working as a doctor in Missoula, among the first group of residents in the new program at the University of Montana.

By Keila Szpaller

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