CCHS | The College of Community Health Sciences

Through these Doors: Changing the Face of Medicine

Fifty years after the “stand in the schoolhouse door” and the integration of the University of Alabama, the College is looking back on the progress made in diversity in medicine and medical education. Continue reading
CCHS provides medical students with knowledge and experience

Take a look at what the College, which is also the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus, offers medical students. Continue reading
Medical students “match” into residency

Medical students across the country learned on March 15 where they would spend the next stage of their graduate medical education and training. Continue reading
Rural pipeline program receives national award

The College’s Rural Health Leaders Pipeline was recognized with an Outstanding Rural Health Program Award from the National Rural Health Association. The award will be presented May 9 at the association’s annual conference in Kentucky. Continue reading

Programs and Initiatives

From The Dean

Richard H. Streiffer, MD

There is simultaneous excitement and guarded optimism overlaid with continued angst about the future of the U.S. health care system, as the transformation of practice and initial implementation of certain health care reforms appear to be getting underway. Our health care system and country face many challenges - continued concerns over patient safety, unchecked growth in the cost of health care, poor performance in implementation of evidence-based practice... Read More

News and Events

Through these Doors: Changing the Face of Medicine
May 16, 2013

Fifty years after the "stand in the schoolhouse door" and the integration of UA, the College is looking back on the progress made in diversity in medicine and medical education.

CCHS provides medical students with knowledge and experience
May 13, 2013

Take a look at what the College, which is also the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa Campus, offers medical students.

UA Professor Expands Knowledge of Telemedicine
May 2, 2013

Telemedicine is a key component to providing specialty care in rural areas, said one University of Alabama professor. Medical services in rural counties are generally provided by primary care physicians, said Dr. Lloyda Williamson.

Local Physician Joins Faculty
April 23, 2013

H. Joseph Fritz, MD, has joined the College as an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, where he will work with residents in hospital and clinic settings.

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