UAB to train more physicians for rural and urban underserved areas of Alabama

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UAB to train more physicians for rural and urban underserved areas of Alabama

By Julie Cole Miller UAB News The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $7 million grant to address the need for training additional family medicine physicians to serve in rural and underserved areas of the state in the years to come. The grant, from […]

Source: The Birmingham Times

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