Support the School of Allied Health Sciences

We would like to thank our countless alumni, friends and other supporters of the school who we are fortunate to call “family.”

Founded in 1968, the School of Allied Health Sciences prepares graduates who excel in health care and practice as competent health care professionals. The school has grown from offering four programs at its inception to today offering undergraduate degrees in dental hygiene, health information management, medical technology, occupational therapy, physician assistant, respiratory therapy and radiologic sciences. Master’s degrees are offered in medical illustration, physical therapy, health education, science and health informatics.

The School of Allied Health Sciences annually enrolls approximately 718 students. Graduating one of the largest numbers of MCG students each year, the School of Allied Health Sciences is significantly contributing to the health workforce in Georgia and beyond. About 66 percent of MCG’s allied health sciences graduates work in Georgia.
Focusing on health care disparities and medically undeserved populations in rural Georgia is central to the mission of the school. The school has over 400 clinical affiliations with health care providers in rural or undeserved counties in the state. By training in these undeserved areas, students understand the need first hand and are more likely to return to these areas to practice after graduating.

The school uses innovative educational approaches such as distance-learning, multimedia technology, interactive television and the Internet to make an allied health sciences education accessible to a wide range of students, eliminating geography as a potential barrier to earning a degree.

Georgia's population is dramatically increasing; in fact, Georgia is one of the most rapidly growing states in the nation. Health care education must keep pace with our population or faced with a critical shortage of health care professionals throughout the state. We must join forces to address one of the most serious challenges facing our state’s education system - the critical shortage of health care professionals to care for our aging population. MCG has a unique ability to address this critical shortage, and the answer is simple: expand and increase our programs. However, this solution is difficult in today's economic climate. Increasing our program size requires hiring educators, investing in innovative technologies, forming partnership to create training sites...the list continues.

Your support makes a difference. If you would like more information on how to support the School of Allied Health Sciences, please contact Grace Miller at 706-721-1011 or grmiller@mcg.edu.

 

Kellett Continues to Support

“Sam Kellett is a prescient entrepreneur and has generously lent us his significant financial acumen as a member of the MCG Foundation, Inc. Board,” said President Rahn. “He has played an immeasurable role in the growth and development of an expanded research mission by establishing the first endowed chairs in the MCG Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing.” [Full Story]