Training the next generation of compassionate physicians is a statewide effort. In addition to UAB School of Medicine’s main campus in Birmingham, four regional campuses provide opportunities for educating physicians in family medicine and primary care, with concentrations in rural or urban underserved populations.
BIRMINGHAM
UAB School of Medicine’s Birmingham campus is home to the new Comprehensive Urban Underserved and Rural Experience (CU2RE) program for medical students, as well as the Urban Underserved Program (U2P). These programs are designed for medical students with an interest
in primary care, health equity, and a heart for serving vulnerable urban communities. Over the course of the four-year program, students will have one-on-one faculty mentorship at Christ Health Center, Cahaba Medical Care, and UAB Family Medicine–Highlands. For residents and fellows, the Department of Family and Community Medicine partners with Cahaba Medical Care to offer a residency program for both urban and rural tracks, a sports and exercise medicine fellowship, and
an emergency medicine fellowship. The physicians of Cahaba Medical Care serve as adjunct faculty members in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The department also collaborates with Christ Health Care physicians; they are affiliated with St. Vincent’s/Ascension. A multidisciplinary faculty development fellowship is also housed within the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
HUNTSVILLE
The Huntsville regional campus includes a family medicine residency program and a rural medicine program. With one of the premier family medicine residencies in the Southeast, an accredited internal medicine residency program, and the UAB Health Center Huntsville, the north Alabama anchor of UAB Medicine has the largest multi-specialty physician practice in the region. They offer required and elective clinical experiences necessary for third- and fourth-year medical students. The Huntsville Rural Medicine Program is a primary care curriculum for students with rural backgrounds, and they offer other rural pipeline programs.
MONTGOMERY
This accredited campus in Montgomery is home to programs for medical students and physicians training in internal medicine, family medicine, and hospital medicine. With 11 faculty members, 40 staff members and 82 students and residents, the Montgomery campus provides crucial clinical care and medical education within the region. A collaborative partnership between UAB, the city of Montgomery, and Baptist Health, this campus aims to help stem a shortage of physicians in underserved rural areas across the state and improve access to health care in central Alabama.
SELMA
UAB School of Medicine’s Selma location hosts a family medicine residency program and family medicine fellowship. The UAB Selma family medicine residency program has been training family physicians in Central Alabama for more than 35 years and is one of the few truly rural family medicine residency programs in the country. This program combines knowledge and resources from a world-class academic medical center with a hands-on community setting, and our residents treat a diverse patient population with a wide range of medical needs.
TUSCALOOSA
As the dedicated home for the primary care track, the Tuscaloosa Regional Medical Campus, housed in the College of Community Health Sciences at The University of Alabama, provides students with a strong foundation in clinical medicine through longitudinal experiences and special programming on population health. Primary care track students spend their third year in a longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC). In a LIC, students work closely with physician instructors to build mentoring relationships; they also develop longitudinal relationships with patients.