Alpine Avalanche, Oct. 29, 2007 Neisha D'Souza and John Ray, third-year medical students at UTMB, want a taste of rural medicine. They think Alpine is the place to get hands-on, intense, real-life rural medical experience, so they're spending the next month with Dr. James "Jim" Luecke and Dr. Adrian Billings in dealing with everything that family practice can throw at them.