Many areas in rural Alabama are prenatal deserts and that impacts how Dr. Connie Leeper cares for some of her pregnant patients. Leeper, a family medicine obstetrician, might ask rural patients about their plans for getting to the hospital when they go into labor. Some of her patients live an hour or more from the…
Four participants of the Rural Medical Scholars Program have graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and will proceed to enter The University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency this summer. Jacob Guin, Josh Price, Crystal Skinner and Hannah Zahedi will be the largest group of Rural Medical Scholars to complete the program in…
Dr. Jane Weida, interim chair of the College’s Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine, authored the chapter “Measles (Rubeola),” published in the 2019 edition of Conn’s Current Therapy, a family medicine textbook. Weida, a family medicine physician, also cares for patients at University Medical Center, which the College operates. The College’s sports medicine fellows,…
Your co-worker can’t breathe. What do you do? You come across a person injured and bleeding. How do you respond? In both scenarios, time is critical, and you may be the only one who can help. While most people instinctively want to assist, not knowing what to do can prevent a bystander from acting, said…
The College of Community Health Sciences in March filled its 2022 class of residents and celebrated medical students who completed their clinical education at the College and were selected for residencies across the US. Sixteen residents will begin the three-year University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency July 1. Four members of the incoming class will…
Dr. Bob McKinney, assistant professor of social work for the College of Community Health Sciences, warned residents, faculty and staff attending the College’s March Grand Rounds lecture that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US with an average of 105 suicides happening daily in America. There is no patient that is…
Up to 3.8 million concussions occur each year in the US, many of them sustained by athletes during practice or play, said Dr. Catherine Ikard, an assistant professor of neurology for the College of Community Health Sciences and a neurologist at University Medical Center, which the College operates. Concussions are caused by acceleration and deceleration…
Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the US, and yet a quarter of the people who have it don’t know it. The most common form of diabetes, Type 2, is also the most preventable. Dr. C. Edward Geno, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, walked participants through the basics of…
Hundreds of walkers participated in University Medical Center’s annual Brussels Sprout Challenge March 2, eating one of the cruciferous vegetables at each mile of the 3.1 mile walk and helping to promote healthy lifestyle choices. This was the fifth year that UMC, which is operated by the College of Community Health Sciences, offered the Brussels…
A high ankle sprain is a common sports-related injury and gets its name from the location of the injury – a little bit above the area injured in a common ankle sprain. A high ankle sprain occurs when there is a sprain to the ligaments that hold the two leg bones, the tibia and fibula,…
