Community Report 2014

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1. Ansell, David A, and Edwin K McDonald. Bias, Black Lives, and Academic Medicine.. The New England Journal of Medicine 372, no. 12 (March 19, 2015): 108789. Bassett, Mary T. #BlackLivesMatter--a Challenge to the Medical and Public Health Communities. The New England Journal of Medicine 372, no. 12 (March 19, 2015): 108587. 2. http://medicaid.alabama.gov/CONTENT/2.0_newsroom/2.7.3_Regional_Care_Organizations.aspx

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WE ARE WORKING TO CHANGE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT HEALTH CARE IN ALABAMA THROUGH OUR EFFORTS TO

TRANSFORM MEDICAL EDUCATION, AND TO IMPROVE AND SUSTAIN

HEALTH CARE IN RURAL AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.

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Project Earns Award for Community Engagement


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77% PRACTICE IN A PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE AREATHIS REPRESENTS 1 IN 7 FAMILY PHYSICIANS IN ALABAMA

230, OR 53%, PRACTICE IN 46 OF ALABAMA'S 67 COUNTIES48% PRACTICE IN A RURAL AREA


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VICKERS COMMENDS TLChe Tuscaloosa Longitudinal Community Curriculum (TLC) received praise from Dr. Selwyn Vickers, vice presi-dent and dean of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, during his first State of the School of Medicine address, which he gave from University of Alabama at Birmingham on Jan. 28, 2015. The College of Community Health Sciencess TLC is a unique clinical educational opportunity for third-year medical students to live and train in a community under the supervision of experienced primary care physicians.

The College provides clinical education for a cohort of third- and fourth-year medical students at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Traditionally, medical students spend eight weeks in one block clerkship before moving onto the next. But a longi-tudinal curriculum allows students to learn at a deeper level, applying concepts and specialties over time and in multiple settings at once. Vickers called the Tuscaloosa Regional Campus innovative for TLC, and commended Dr. Richard Streiffer, dean of the College, for leading the College through its strategic planning process, which yielded the longitudinal curriculum, among other things. The longitudinal curriculum allows [medical students] to engage with skilled clinicians who take them through the care of the patient across multiple diseases and multiple specialties, Vickers said.



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Student Daphne Cockrell outside the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center's mobile clinic



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