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…
Two medical students at the College of Community Health Sciences were elected to yearlong student leadership positions with the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians. The University of Alabama School of Medicine students, who are receiving their third and fourth years of clinical education at the College, were named to the positions after an election that…
Twenty-one physicians were honored at the 41st annual graduation ceremony of The University of Alabama Family Medicine Residency and Fellowships. The 14 resident physicians and seven fellows who were honored at the ceremony, held Saturday, June 25, at the Zone-South at Bryant Denny Stadium on the UA campus, will soon begin their own practices in…
Dr. James Robinson, Endowed Chair of Sports Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences, discusses some heat safety tips for summer.
