As clinical assistant professors, Dr. Broderick Bello, Dr. Ted Wilson and Dr. Nadine Skinner are taking on the role of faculty for Area L AHEC/University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine family medicine clerkship.

For four weeks, each third-year student from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine is taught in a community setting as a required part of their medical training, to be completed Jan. 25.

Amanda Allen is working with Boice-Willis Clinic-Nashville with Bello. Ayesha Kelly is working at OIC Family Medical Center with Wilson. Tracy Salisbury is working at Eastern N.C. Medical Group with Skinner.

The UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Family Medicine and Area L AHEC officials thanked the communities of Rocky Mount and Nashville for contributing to these students' medical education.

The purpose of Area L AHEC is to provide educational opportunities to enhance the health care delivery system and to help improve the quality, quantity and distribution of health care providers.

The purpose is accomplished through cooperation with health care providers, educational institutions and related organizations in Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton and Wilson counties.

Area L AHEC is located at AHEC Park, 1631 S. Wesleyan Blvd., Rocky Mount.