Students in the UAB School of Medicine will observe national Primary Care week Oct. 3-7 with a week filled with student-driven lunch lecture events to increase awareness of primary care needs in Alabama and across the country.Primary care specialties include family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, geriatrics and a combination specialty in medicine and pediatrics.
Primary Care education and providing the primary care workforce for Alabama is a targeted initiative in AMC21, the strategic plan for UAB Medicine. The School of Medicine has several programs, including the Dean’s Primary Care Scholars Program, the Tuscaloosa-based Rural Medical Scholars Program and the Huntsville-based Rural Medicine Program—all created to increase the number of primary care physicians.
Each lunch lecture the week of Oct. 3 begins at noon in Volker Hall Lecture Room E.
Monday, Oct. 3 – “Primary Care Myth-Busters” with speaker English Gonzalez, M.D., faculty at St. Vincent’s East Family Medicine Residency.
Tuesday, Oct. 4 – “Choosing Med-Peds” with Cleon Rogers, M.D. of Christ Health Center.
Wednesday, Oct. 5 – “Service in Primary Care” with Roxanne Travelute, M.D., president of the Jefferson County Medical Society.
Thursday, Oct. 6 —Primary Care Q&A panel.
Friday, Oct. 7 — “Role of Pediatricians in Primary Care,” with Annalise Sorrentino, M.D., professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.