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Director of Medical Student Affairs:
Cathy L. Gresham, MD, FACP
 
Program Assistant:
Mary Kay Hannah
 
Office of Medical Student Services
The University of Alabama School of Medicine
College of Community Health Sciences
106 Education Tower
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0378
Telephone (205) 348-1384

DCH Regional Medical Center is the hospital teaching base for medical students and residents.  Its broad range of services and activities includes a pathology laboratory, radiology department, intensive care unit, subintensive care units, infant high-risk nursery, minimum care unit, recovery room physical/occupational therapy department, emergency room, respiratory therapy unit, a pharmacy, a blood bank, and renal dialysis facilities. 

DCH Regional Medical Center is one of the largest acute care hospitals in Alabama, with a capacity of 658 beds and approximately 25,000 admissions per year. 


Capstone Medical Center is headquarters for the clinical training program of the school.  Approximately 50,000 patients are served each year by faculty physicians in a setting of a multi-specialty group practice, including: self-contained clinics for pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, occupational health, psychiatry, and surgery, as well as family medicine.  The center also provides space for nutrition, laboratory, x-ray, and special procedure services. 


DCH Northport Hospital is a 156-bed facility, which provides a variety of diagnostic, medical, and surgical services to students and residents in the Tuscaloosa/Northpor area and introduces students to the type of experiences available in many community hospitals. 


Veterans Administration Medical Center is a 582-bed facility.  The center is a psychiatry hospital, but it also maintains a 55-bed general medical service that is a major educational facility for medical students, as well as a five-bed intensive care unit and a pulmonary laboratory.  In addition, a 120 bed nursing home unit to provide model geriatric care operates on the grounds of the center, and an educational building on the VA grounds has been constructed for office space, classrooms, and areas for training students, residents, and other allied health personnel. 

Accredited Residency Programs: 

  • Family Medicine

  • The Family Practice Residency Program is a university-based program in a community hospital that supports only one residency program with a large full-time faculty assisted by numerous adjunct professors and local physicians who volunteer their participation. 
     

  • The Family Practice Residency Program in Tuscaloosa prepares physicians for practice and responsible leadership positions in the health-care community. The program is conducted by the Department of Family Medicine of the University of Alabama School of Medicine’s College of Community Health Sciences.  Participation in the three-year program supplies medical school graduates with extensive clinical experiences in all areas of medicine. 

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