Area students complete UA rural health program

Students from Clarke County (above) include Chelsea Beverly of Jackson, and Bethany Rush, Jonathan C. Clardy and Marshall C. Pritchett all of Thomasville. Justin Garris of Millry (below) represented Washington County. Students are pictured with Cynthia Moore, right, assistant director of the UA Rural Health Scholars Program, and Dr. John Wheat (left) professor of community and rural medicine in the UA College of Community Health Sciences

A select group of high school students from across the state recently completed the 2007 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 took two courses for college credit and attended campus seminars. The program is in its 14th year at UA in the College of Community Health Sciences.

The 2007 UA Rural Health Scholars included:

Clarke County Chelsea Beverly of Jackson, Bethany Rush, Jonathan C. Clardy and Marshall C. Pritchett all of Thomasville;

Washington County Justin Garris of Millry

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