Eighteen students studying to become physicians, dentists and other health-care providers and who want to practice in rural Alabama communities were recognized April 26 at a College of Community Health Sciences convocation. The students are part of the College’s Rural Medical Scholars, Rural Community Health Scholars and Rural Dental Scholars programs. The Rural Medical Scholars…
Dr. Joy Bradley, assistant professor of community medicine and population health with CCHS, will host the 2025 Seeds of Change Conference, Monday, April 7, from 11am-6pm at The University of Alabama Bryant Conference Center. The conference seeks to find solutions to food access challenges in the Black Belt region of Alabama, an impoverished region of…
Twenty-six UAB Heersink School of Medicine students who completed their clinical education at UA’s College of Community Health Sciences were selected for residency programs across the country. CCHS serves as a regional campus of the Heersink School of Medicine in the education of medical students, and clinical education consists of the third and fourth years…
The College of Community Health Sciences has expanded learning opportunities in rural medicine in Alabama for its medical students. Enterprise has been added as a third community learning site, joining existing sites in Demopolis and Pell City. In its role as a regional campus of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, CCHS provides the third…
Five third-year residents of The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program, operated by the College of Community Health Sciences, will present their scholarly research posters at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference May 3-7 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The conference features a lineup of educational and interactive…
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…
