Sixteen new medical school graduates will begin their graduate education in July 2025 at The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, operated by the College of Community Health Sciences The UA Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program was established in 1975 and is one of the oldest and largest family medicine residencies in the…
CCHS has provided clinical education (third and fourth years of medical school) to 1,079 medical students since its founding in 1972.
Dr. Tamer Elsayed, interim chair of the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine with CCHS, received the Degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a credential that recognizes the recipient’s commitment to family medicine through community work, research, teaching, professional development and organized medicine. Election as a fellow requires experience…
CCHS’s monthly Art of Medicine Rounds lecture, “Helping physicians become better healers: A prescription of poetry and art,” is Thursday, March 6, 2025, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the CCHS Classrooms (850 Peter Bryce Blvd, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 35401). The guest speaker is Stacy Nigliazzo, author of three books of poems: Scissored Moon, Sky the Oar…
Exercise is a cornerstone for the prevention and treatment of disease and should be prescribed by physicians to their patients and added to the curriculum of medical schools and residency programs, said Dr. Irfan Asif, endowed professor of sports and exercise medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine. “There’s an…
The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences is launching a new residency program to help address the critical need for psychiatrists in the state. The newly accredited University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Psychiatry Residency Program is a four-year education and training program for medical school graduates that will prepare board-eligible residents in the field…
Dr. M.N.V. Ravi Kumar, Distinguished University Research Professor with The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences, has been selected as UA’s recipient of the 2025 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. The annual SEC Faculty Achievement Awards highlight the vital role educators play in advancing the mission of the SEC and its institutions, as…
Dr. Sachin Shenoy, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at CCHS, and Ashton Robinson and Sheena Khan, both fourth-year medical students at CCHS, co-authored “Inadequate perinatal asthma control resulting in status asthmaticus requiring ECMO,” published in the British Medical Journal. Email library@cchs.ua.edu for more information about the publication. In its role as a regional campus…
Dr. Ginger Medders joined the College of Community Health Sciences as an assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine. She also cares for patients as a family medicine and sports medicine physician at University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, which the College operates. In addition, Medders teaches resident physicians at The University…
The College of Community Health Sciences had 532 employees as of 2024: 73 faculty 425 staff 15 student staff 19 paid graduate research assistants The College also operates University Medical Center (six locations), the UA Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, the UA Student Health Center and Pharmacy and Capstone Hospitalist Group.
