School of Allied Health Sciences Funding Priorities

The School of Allied Health Sciences has identified several focus areas where increased philanthropic support for the school will help solidify MCG’s status as a premier academic medical center: recruiting the best faculty, meeting enrollment targets with qualified students, expanding the research mission and having a state-of-the-art health sciences facility.  Learn Strategic Plan

Student Support
An important goal of the campaign is increasing undergraduate scholarships and graduate student stipends. As allied health disciplines such as radiologic sciences experience national shortages, MCG must have these added incentives to attract the best and brightest students. Graduate student stipends enhance the research mission and encourage scientific exploration.

 

Faculty Support
Adding four or more endowed chairs to the School of Allied Health Sciences is a primary goal of the campaign. While enrollment in the school has increased in recent years, the number of faculty has decreased by 13 percent. It is imperative that we attract and retain outstanding faculty members who excel both in teaching and research. Without an increase in our faculty, the school will be limited in class size and new program offerings. Faculty endowments allow us to recruit and hire more faculty, without taxing a shrinking budget even more.

 

 

Facilities
A new state-of-the art Health Sciences Building will house the MCG Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing. Equipping this new facility is a top priority. Outfitting labs and classrooms with state-of-the-art equipment, instructional technology and discipline-specific tools will enhance our students’ academic experience and clinical training, optimally preparing them for their chosen health professions.

MCG also needs to renovate its Shepeard and Jennings Buildings to accommodate allied health programs that will not be housed in the new building and to increase needed research space for faculty.

Programs
Philanthropic support for our programs is essential to expand current allied health programs. Increased funding of academic programs, a major aim of the campaign, will enable a more robust learning experience by expanding teaching and research opportunities.

A program of great importance to the School of Allied Health Sciences, the Rural Health Training Program, enables students to complete clinical rotations in rural communities. The program not only enables our students to serve the most needy Georgians but also should increase the number of under-represented minorities in the health professions because of this exposure to the field. Additionally, the program hopes to make rural practice a more a more attractive career choice for our graduates.

These kinds of programs demonstrate MCG’s commitment to health care delivery as a whole and to the specific needs of the community and state.

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