News at USA Health

The logistics of this year’s Match Day may have been different, but the spirit of the day remained the same.

The 11^th annual Gulf Coast Trauma Symposium and William A.L. Mitchell Endowed Lectureship will be held Aug. 18-19. The event will take place at the Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa in Mobile, Alabama.

Sitting in a conference room filled with more than 20 African American medical students, Johnson Haynes Jr., M.D., remembers not being able to see a face like his among his peers in that same building just 30 years ago.

USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital has teamed up with the Mobile Public Library and the USA Alliance for Community Resilience to offer free family learning classes to the community.

Rotation for emergency medicine residents sends them on calls with paramedics and firefighters in Orange Beach. The goal: sharpen their skills to provide better care.

Cepeda, a 2003 graduate of the USA College of Medicine, is in private practice in Mobile. He gives back to his alma mater by serving as a preceptor in the Clinically Integrated Introductory Course (CLINIC), which provides first- and second-year medical students experiences in career exploration as they rotate through various specialties such as pediatrics.

The one-day symposium offers 7.75 hours of continuing medical education.

The students will make recommendations based on medical, social and financial information and follow up throughout the academic year as if they were the patients’ primary care providers.

Students at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine have the opportunity to learn early in their medical education what being a family physician entails as part of the Clinically Integrated Introductory Course (CLINIC).

The article, highlighted on the cover, was also selected as the editor’s choice for the edition.

The first robotic liver resection in south Alabama was performed by Annabelle L. Fonseca, M.D., M.H.S., at USA Health University Hospital earlier this year.

Residents from the USA Health department of pathology recently presented at the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.