On November 1, 2023, the Underserved Pathway and Montana WWAMI TRUST hosted a hybrid panel discussion in Bozeman, MT called Maintaining Balance as a Rural Physician: Caring for One’s Self and Community featuring four family doctors from rural Montana:

Dr. Amy Solomon (Montana Family Medicine Residency in Billings, MT)
Dr. Neil Sun-Rhodes Indian Health Services Blackfeet Community Hospital in Browning, Montana)
Dr. Wade See (Stillwater Billings Clinic in Columbus, MT)
Dr. Rebecca Sharar (PGY-3 at Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana in Missoula, MT)

The recording is approximately 1 hour, 15 minutes. The panelists spoke candidly about their experiences during training and as attendings, discussing strategies for self-care and how they cope with stress, their experiences facing negative feedback from preceptors, a story of recovery from drug abuse, and other stories of perseverance.