This summer, the Southeast Alabama AHEC (SEAAHEC) hosted UAB Health Management undergraduate Molly Thomas in a three-month internship to fulfill requirements for her degree. From May through July, Ms. Thomas worked with the staff to contribute to several on-going core programs and projects. Serving as camp counselor during Discovery MedCamp 2018, she was responsible for a group of campers who attended the 5-day intensive, residential program. In addition, she spearheaded the

Social Isolation: it seems almost deniable in our technology driven lives where exposure to others can be as swift as an internet connection - regardless of location. Yet, according to the Executive Director of the National Association of Rural Mental Health (NARMH), Ron Manderschied, it is a condition, he equates, “almost as deadly… as smoking.” [1] In the aftermath of tandem suicides by national figures, the suicide crisis in our nation is not far from our minds. Still, th

Clinical Coordinator Stephanie Westhoff shares scholarship and loan repayment information with medical students The concept for Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) is not new, in fact, AHECs began to crop up around the nation in the early 1970s to create greater access to health care in rural and underserved pockets of the United States. Funded since the early 1980s - through an arm of the federal Bureau of Health Workforce, i.e., the Health Resources and Services Administra