The annual University of Alabama flu shot campaign, an effort by the University to protect students, faculty and staff from the flu, kicked off Sept. 7. Flu shots will be provided during the months of September, October and November at locations across campus, including the Quad, University buildings and student residence halls. The shots are…
Salmaan Zaki Kamal, a medical student at the College of Community Health Sciences, has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Sara Crews Finley, M.D., Endowed Leadership Scholarship. The University of Alabama School of Medicine scholarship, which supports students who demonstrate exceptional academic and leadership abilities, includes full tuition for the third year of…
Take a look at this U.S. News slideshow with several quotes from Dr. Thomas Weida, Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs at CCHS.
A CCHS nurse practitioner is providing care by going directly to her patients who need her most.
Program helps University Medical Center patients achieve their goals and control their diseases.
Akua Aidoo, a medical student from Ghana, spent three weeks completing a rotation in the College of Community Health Sciences’ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She participated in patient visits in the Betty-Shirley Clinic, which provides mental health care to patients at University Medical Center, which the College operates. Aidoo is a medical student…
The initiative offers broad health services through partnerships with UA’s School of Medicine, Family Medicine Residency, Speech and Hearing Center and Capstone College of Nursing.
When University of Alabama medical student Roshmi Bhattacharya saw a problem in her community, she created a course to help solve it. “Roshmi noticed when she was doing her rotation that some of the nurses were treating Latino patients unfairly or inappropriately,” says Dr. Pamela Payne-Foster, faculty advisor for the class and deputy director of…
When one of Elizabeth Junkin’s patients, a man in his 50s, came to a rural family-medicine clinic with abdominal pain, she suspected appendicitis. She recommended a CT scan that confirmed her diagnosis, then drove to the local hospital in Carrollton, Ala., to check on the man. No surgeons were available, so the emergency surgery he…
This year’s classes of Rural Medical Scholars and Rural Community Health Scholars were welcomed to the College of Community Health Sciences with a day of orientation on Aug. 16 at Camp Tuscoba in Northport. The College works to address the shortage of primary care physicians in Alabama through the Rural Medical Scholars Program, which is…
