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Outreach
The College of Medicine reaches out to communities throughout the state in a variety of ways. A few examples are:
- Along the U.S-Mexico border, UA College of Medicine students make home visits and assess community health care needs
- Through the Rural Health Professions Program, medicine, pharmacy and nurse practitioner students receive part of their education at rural sites statewide.
- On Native American reservations, physicians from the Steele Children’s Research Center offer early diagnoses of genetic conditions.
- Through the Arizona Telemedicine Program, high-resolution video imaging allows AHSC specialists to provide medical consultation to rural physicians and other health professionals to improve patients’ lives.
- The Arizona Arthritis Center brings much-needed osteoporosis screening to rural communities, work sites, reservations and nursing homes.
- The Arizona Health Sciences Library, Arizona’s most extensive source of health sciences information, is considered one of the best libraries of its kind in the nation.
- The UA Mini-Medical School, offered in Phoenix and Tucson, loosely replicates the curriculum of first-year medical students in an innovative and interactive format for the general public. The AHSC Phoenix Campus also plays s a unique role in community education by hosting provocative public forums on current medical and health care issues.
- Since 1979, College of Medicine students have provided medical services through its Commitment to Underserved People (CUP) outreach clinics.
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