Overview

The Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine is growing – in Augusta, and across the state.

With Georgia currently ranked ninth in population and population growth and 44th in physicians per capita, expansion of the state’s medical school is crucial to meeting health care demands of future residents.

MCG is central to the University System of Georgia’s plan to boost medical class enrollment 60 percent by 2020. Its Augusta campus is slated for millions of dollars in new construction, including a new Medical Education Commons to accommodate the growing class size.

The school is expanding its reach beyond its home campus by aligning with partners to create satellite clinical campuses based in Albany and Savannah for third- and fourth-year students in underserved areas of the state’s southwest and coastal regions. And MCG’s joint venture with the University of Georgia has created the MCG-UGA Medical Partnership in Athens, a four-year program which is on track to enroll its first class of 40 medical students in fall 2010.

The unprecedented expansion of medical education will allow MCG to carry on its mission of improving health and reducing the burden of illness on society well into the new millennium.