TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Eight students selected from the Black Belt region recently completed the 2006 Minority Rural Health Pipeline Program at The University of Alabama.
Recent high school graduates who planned to enter college in the next academic year were eligible to attend the five-week summer program. The students attended tutorials and seminars on the UA campus and took field trips to rural medical facilities to learn from African-American physicians.
The program was initiated to increase the number of minority students from rural Alabama who qualify for admission to medical school. This is the sixth year of the program at the UA College of Community Health Sciences.
Participants in the 2006 Minority Rural Health Pipeline Program at UA included:
Contact
Ian Turnipseed or Linda Hill, UA Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu
Source
Cynthia Moore, UA College of Community Health Sciences, 205/348-3116, cmoore@cchs.ua.edu