Students Complete UA Rural Health Scholars Program

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A select group of 26 high school students from across the state recently completed the 2008 Rural Health Scholars Program at The University of Alabama.

The program introduces rural students to college life and gives them an orientation to the need for health and medical professionals in rural communities like their own. They take field trips to rural hospitals and to one of the state’s medical schools and learn more about how to prepare academically for these careers. The students lived on campus for five weeks during the summer.

Chosen based on academic achievement and interest in rural health care, these students take two courses for college credit and attend seminars. The program is in its 15th year at UA in the College of Community Health Sciences.
The 2008 UA Rural Health Scholars and their home counties included:
All students are pictured with Dr. John Wheat, UA professor of community and rural medicine and Cynthia Moore, assistant director of the UA Rural Scholars Programs.