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Dr. Streiffer, Dean of the College of Community Health Sciences, and Buddy Kirk discuss the unique nature of this partnership. https://youtu.be/YVMBRVRGOME

Forty first-year medical students picked tomatoes, eggplants and peppers, cleared and raked foliage, cut back overgrown brush and even laid down a wall as part of their orientation to Tuscaloosa and to The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences on Thursday, July 28, 2016. The students are part of a class of 186…

Twenty-six CCHS employees were recognized for their years of service to The University of Alabama. UA’s Service Recognition Program recognizes staff employees achieving continuous service milestones of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years of service. Staff being recognized are invited to an annual reception and receive a commemorative key ring.  …

The College of Community Health Sciences’ departments of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine have joined, and along with the College’s Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs, now form the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine, or FIRM. The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the merger at its June 2016 meeting. Dr. Richard Streiffer,…

Katherine Eastman, MLIS, will join the College of Community Health Sciences as an embedded librarian on August 1. An embedded librarian works in a clinical space, which will allow the College’s Health Sciences Library to integrate itself into direct patient care and collaborate more frequently at the point of care with physicians, students, residents and…

Dr. Katie Gates has joined the College of Community Health Sciences as assistant professor of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine. Gates is a graduate of The University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency, operated by the College, where she served as chief resident. Originally from Oxford, Alabama, Gates earned her bachelor’s degree from The University of…

Pickens County Herald: Hospital Committee talks UA-Pickens County Partnership June 15, 2016 – The Friends of the Hospital Committee came bearing good news to share with the Pickens County Commission Thursday, June 9. The news included how funding would be used in the University of Alabama/Pickens County Healthcare Teaching County Partnership as well as introducing…

  The University of Alabama has teamed up with Pickens County to provide learning opportunities for students while improving the health and wellbeing of the rural county of nearly 20,000. The University of Alabama-Pickens County Partnership seeks to provide sustainable health care for the county and “real world” training for UA students in medicine, nursing,…

The College of Community Health Sciences is adding to its offering of graduate medical education an Emergency Medicine Fellowship. The one-year program, which is provided in conjunction with Rush Foundation Hospital in Meridian, Mississippi, will accept two fellows who will start their rotations in July 2017. The program will be based primarily at Rush Foundation…

Faculty at the College of Community Health Sciences presented about dementia, obesity in the media, pediatric limp and other topics at the annual meeting of the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians, which was held June 15-19 in Sandestin, Florida. The meeting allows family medicine physicians throughout the state to connect, earn continuing medical education and…