Expansion-related MCG News:
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted this week to authorize purchase of Gilbert Manor to enable expansion of the Medical College of Georgia.The public housing complex of the Augusta Housing Authority sits on a 15-acre, triangular plot contiguous to MCG and bordered by R.A. Dent Boulevard, Goss Lane and Spellman St. The property will be the future site for a new School of Dentistry facility. Planning also is under way for expansion of School of Medicine facilities at the site and an Education Commons to be shared by the medical and dental schools.
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The focus of the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine remains the same – educating and training physicians for Georgia. But by investing in things such as faculty engagement and development and expanding educational and research programs, the school can increase its value and impact, Dean D. Douglas Miller said in his State of the School Address Friday.
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Today’s laundry list of health care problems—high costs, limited access, uneven quality, etc.—is no doubt daunting.But even more daunting, according to a national panel of experts, is that all of these issues are moot if the country doesn’t address its critical shortage of health care providers—and soon.“Our message is to focus on the forest, not the trees,” said Medical College of Georgia President Daniel W. Rahn, a panelist for a July 17 media briefing addressing an Association of Academic Health Centers report on the issue.
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Dr. Daniel W. Rahn, president of the Medical College of Georgia and senior vice chancellor for health and medical programs for the University System of Georgia, is a panelist for a July 17 media briefing on the nation’s health workforce.The briefing will address the Association of Academic Health Center’s report “Out of Order, Out of Time: The State of the Nation’s Health Workforce.”
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Dr. Kathryn R. Martin, administrator of the Chatham County, Ga., Health Department, has been named assistant dean of the Southeast Georgia Clinical Campus of the Medical of Georgia School of Medicine based at Savannah's St. Joseph's/Candler Health System. Dr. Martin, an administrator and educator who has worked at MCG and Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, joins the faculty July 1.
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ATLANTA – The University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved a resolution today that commits the System to a 60 percent expansion of physician education through the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine. The board’s action follows its earlier acceptance of a report calling for medical education expansion in Georgia.
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While most folks are still recovering from holiday visitors, Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine leaders are preparing for some of the most important ones they have had in, well, seven years.
“School of Medicine accreditation is fundamental to everything else,” Dr. Ruth-Marie Fincher, vice dean for academic affairs of the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, matter-of-factly. “You may like the process or not but it’s essential to do it, it’s essential to do it well, it’s essential to do it honestly.”
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Like the Santa Ana winds, cultural norms are shifting in academic medicine as the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine steers toward its 180th year, said the school’s dean.
The old culture emphasized one: THE independent investigator, THE clinical rainmaker, the one-to-one physician-patient relationship, Dr. D. Douglas Miller said in his annual State of the School Address Nov. 16.
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Nationally recognized medical school expansion firm Tripp Umbach has been selected to explore the best growth opportunities for the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine.
“They are the leading firm in the country in medical school campus expansion and new campus planning,” said Dr. D. Douglas Miller, dean of the MCG School of Medicine. “They will provide an objective, data-driven analysis using validated approaches of our best options for medical student expansion in the state.”
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The Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine will increase its class size by 5 percent to 200 freshmen for fall 2009, Dean D. Douglas Miller said Thursday.
“We want to continue to move forward with quality expansion of our medical school to help meet the health care needs of our state,” says Dr. Miller. “Our applicant pool is strong and we can easily accept 10 more qualified students for 2009 after making appropriate accommodations for increased space, teachers and patients.”
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The Medical College of Georgia, the state’s health sciences university, is working with the University of Georgia to expand teaching and research initiatives.
Plans include expanding MCG’s School of Medicine to include a campus in Athens enrolling 40 freshmen by fall semester 2009, says Dr. D. Douglas Miller, medical school dean.
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