Medical scribes document patient visits into electronic medical records, in real time and under physician supervision, helping doctors spend less time in front of a computer and more time engaged in conversation with their patients. University Medical Center launched a medical scribe program in 2015 as a six-month pilot project with five scribes. Today, the…
Faculty from the College of Community Health Sciences presented in September at the American Heart Association’s Worksite Wellness Summit held at The University of Alabama. Suzanne Henson, assistant professor of family, internal, and rural medicine and a registered dietitian at University Medical Center, which is operated by CCHS, provided an overview of UA’s Better Bites…
College of Community Health Sciences faculty, resident physicians, medical students and graduate students took part in a Community Action Poverty Simulation held in September at The University of Alabama Ferguson Student Center. The poverty simulation mimicked what it would be like to live for one month in a low-income household. The simulation took place in…
Though it doesn’t cover a physical exam, the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit should not be skipped, Dr. Tom Weida said at the semester’s first Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Mini-Medical School held at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus. Weida, a physician and chief medical officer at University Medical Center and faculty…
Psychiatrists are often wary to assign a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder to a patient due to the stigma that will often follow them for the rest of their lives and influence the medical treatment they receive, said Dr. Marisa Giggie. She led the latest installment in the College of Community Health Sciences Grand Rounds…
Dr. Louanne Friend, assistant professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Population Health at the College of Community Health Sciences, spoke to University of Alabama Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Mini-Medical School participants about hypertension and managing blood pressure on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Friend talked to an assembled class of more than 50 OLLI…
The University of Alabama is entering its eighth year of providing free flu shots at locations across campus to protect students, faculty and staff from the flu. The UA flu shot campaign kicks off September 3 and continues through mid-November with vaccines provided – at no cost and with no health insurance required – at…
The disease with many names – metabolic syndrome – affects a growing number of Americans. Otherwise known as Syndrome X, insulin resistance syndrome, Reaven syndrome, dysmetabolic syndrome, cardiometabolic syndrome, coronary artery disease, hypertension, adult onset diabetes, obesity and stroke, and the deadly quartet. Dr. Robert Osburne, an endocrinologist and faculty member at the College of…
Tuscaloosa campus recipients of School of Medicine’s 2019 Argus Awards Students from the University of Alabama School of Medicine named a faculty member and a resident on the Tuscaloosa Regional Campus winners of 2019 Argus Awards. The College of Community Health Sciences, which operates The University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency and University Medical Center,…
The College of Community Health Sciences was recognized at the 2019 Adopt-A-School Kickoff Luncheon July 31 with a special award for its work with Tuscaloosa Magnet Elementary School and Tuscaloosa Magnet Middle School. The event at the Bryant Conference Center on The University of Alabama campus honored all current Adopt-A-School partnerships, and special awards were…
