MCG at a Glance

Founded in 1828, the Medical College of Georgia is the 13th-oldest continuously operating medical school in the United States and the third-oldest in the Southeast.

MCG, Georgia’s health sciences university, has more than 2,400 students in five schools: Medicine, Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Studies and Nursing. Students come from most of Gergia’s 159 counties. Students from other states and foreign countries comprise approximately 2 percent of MCG’s student body.

MCG offers modern classrooms and laboratories, the 540-bed MCG Medical Center, the Children’s Medical Center, extensive outpatient clinics, residence halls, a student center, a wellness center and an outstanding medical education library with more than 164,984 books and bound journals and approximately 4,000 periodicals.

With more than 4,000 faculty and staff, MCG is the largest employer in the Augusta area.

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Teaching Hospitals

MCG Health System Medical Center

• Key regional hospital and sole academic medical center for Eastern Georgia and Southwestern South Carolina
• Only Level 1 Trauma Center in Region
• State-of-the-art 18 bed MICU
• Expanding Dialysis and Stem Cell Transplant Unit
• Over 80 outpatient clinics in one convenient setting
• State’s telemedicine center
• Cardiovascular, Neuroscience and Oncology Centers of Excellence
• New freestanding Cardiovascular Center

Augusta Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center

Two Divisions
• Downtown: Acute Care – adjacent to MCG
• Paperless, modern VA with full range of diagnostic tests available
• Uptown – Chronic, Geriatric, and Ambulatory Care – three miles away

	MCG Medical Center	VA Medical Center	Total
Total Beds	540	440	980
Medicine Beds	214	58	272
MICU	18	20	38
ER visits	65,000	9,000	74,000
Outpatient visits	435,000	288,700	723,000