These students come from small, rural towns. After getting their degrees and going to medical school, they want to return home or go somewhere similar and give people the medical care they have been missing.
UA’s College of Community Health Sciences welcomed the second class to the Tuscaloosa Rural Pre-Medical Internship just after Memorial Day. It’s a program for college students interested in rural primary care practices.
This group of 11 college students is learning about the health needs of rural Alabamians in the fields of family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. “A lot of rural areas often face poverty. And in my case, it was something that we really couldn’t afford to having to travel to a 30-minute clinic or even a clinic an hour away,” explained Edwin Olea, a UA Rural Pre-Med Intern from Slocomb, Alabama. “It was kind of a strain, so to be able to go back and be closer to my community to avoid that problem is something that would want to do.
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