Medical College of Georgia Fact Sheet
President: Dr. James N. Thompson, Interim
1120 Fifteenth Street
Augusta, GA 30912
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Institution Profile
The mission of the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), the state’s health sciences university, is to discover, disseminate, and apply knowledge to improve health and reduce the burden of illness on society.
In realizing its mission, the Medical College of Georgia, a research university, is committed to serving the people of Georgia, the nation, and the world by: (1) Preparing the health professional workforce of the future; (2) Conducting research through programs that create, disseminate, and apply new knowledge relevant to human health; (3) Providing exceptional, innovative, patient-centered health care services; and (4) Contributing to the economic development and well-being of the State of Georgia through integrated programs in education, research, and clinical care.
MCG has nearly 2,500 students in five schools: Medicine, Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Studies and Nursing. Students come from most of Georgia’s 159 counties. Students from other states and foreign countries comprise approximately 2 percent of MCG’s student body. The university also provides postgraduate specialty training, such as orthodontics and family medicine residency programs, to nearly 500 dentists and physicians.
The university offers 68 degrees and majors and uses satellite campuses, distance-learning, the Internet and other innovative techniques to ensure a statewide reach.
The university plans further statewide expansion with a goal of enrolling 1,200 medical students on campuses in Augusta, Athens, Savannah and Albany by 2020, an increase of approximately 60 percent, to address the critical need for more physicians in Georgia. MCG also is expanding the state of Georgia’s only dental school from 63 to 100 students per class by 2016, and expanding residency positions for specialty training from 44 to 72 to meet the state’s need for dentists. Increases will put both schools among the largest of their type in the nation.
MCG’s research efforts focus on diseases that have the greatest impact on Georgians: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes/obesity, infection/inflammation and neurological disease.
The university’s clinical facilities include MCGHealth Medical Center, the MCGHealth Children’s Medical Center and the Ambulatory Care Center/Specialized Care Center. Recent additions to the campus include the Health Sciences Building, housing the Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing, and the Cancer Research Center, consolidating cancer initiatives campus-wide. A new clinical facility for cancer is scheduled to open early in 2010.
MCG has an economic impact on the Augusta area of more than $961 million.