October 15-16, 2008
Atlanta Airport Marriott Hotel

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of MCG, I welcome you to the GME Leadership Summit Website. As Georgia’s Health Sciences University, MCG seeks to engage Georgia’s many invested academic, healthcare, and policy leaders in a collaborative strategy for GME that will leverage the considerable strengths of the state’s medical education and healthcare enterprises toward a ‘Healthy Georgia,’ with a state physician workforce that is sound in number, professional mix, and geographic distribution.

To this end, we will gather a distinguished cadre of national and state experts for a Summit on Oct. 15–16 in Atlanta. Through plenary sessions and interactive work groups, we will share case studies and experiences that have shaped best practices and policy for GME throughout the United States. Accepted participants will be appointed to one of four workgroups; each workgroup will consider a different facet of Georgia’s unique medical education and healthcare challenges. And in an expanded context of successful national models, each group will explore innovative paths toward meeting Georgia's physician manpower goals by the Year 2020.

Among the products of the GME Summit will be a monograph that captures meeting proceedings as recommendations to thought and policy leaders statewide, and a newly-forged network of colleagues committed to continued dialog, and to hard work and reward through collaboration.

The GME Summit will kick off with a reception and dinner on Wed., Oct. 15, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Atlanta Airport Marriott Hotel. David C. Leach, MD, past chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, will deliver the keynote address on Oct. 15; the Oct. 16 program will convene at 7:45 a.m. and adjourn by 5:30 p.m.

Toward better health for all Georgians, all of our state’s medical schools have successfully engaged communities and deployed resources to graduate more physicians in Georgia; however, a great deal of hard work remains ahead. We know that the challenges presented by GME will continue to test our abilities to rise to Georgia’s ambitious physician workforce goals. A powerful motivator for us to come together on Oct. 15–16 is the great potential we share as leaders — working as colleagues toward a statewide GME strategy that will best position Georgia’s education, healthcare, and economic sectors for excellence.

Sincerely,

D. Douglas Miller, MD, CM, MBA
Regents’ Professor and Dean, School of Medicine
Chief Clinical Officer
Medical College of Georgia