The Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University
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he state of Georgia’s only public medical school has a celebrated history of educating physicians and a vibrant future that includes a beautiful new academic home. It is a place where you will learn at the side of both smalltown practitioners and subspecialists in critical care units. It is a place where you will experience all that medicine has to offer. It is a place where you will become a great physician.
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makes a significant footprint across Georgia. In fact, 1-in-5 physicians in the state went to medical school or completed postgraduate training at MCG and the Georgia Regents Health System. That translates to about 5,000 physicians in Georgia and more than 10,000 living alums througout the world. With 230 students per class, MCG has one of the largest entering class sizes in the nation, fitting for a geographically expansive state that consistently ranks in the top 10 in both population and population growth. Forty students per class are at the second, four-year campus in Athens, the Georgia Regents University/University of Georgia Partnership campus, which opened in 2010.
I felt at home within days. The faculty were so warm, you could tell they cared about us. Katherine Menezes, President, Class of 2017
MCG is a very big medical school, but it does not feel like a big school to me. There is a community within the school; we are community focused; and there is a sense of happy people giving back here.
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hile extremely competitive, application to the 185-yearold medical school is an efficient, effective process that begins with our participation in the centralized American Medical College Application Service. The medical school offers an Early Decision Program for students who have a minimum Medical College Admission Test score of 31 and total grade point average of 3.7. The MCAT should be taken by the spring before you apply to MCG and required courses include one academic year of biology, chemistry, physics, and English. As the state’s only public medical school, preference is given to Georgia applicants, but the school encourages a class that is diverse by every definition.
Stephen Jackson, President, Class of 2016
You really do get to see how medicine is practiced in a variety of different areas. You can see the high-acuity, extremely sick, extremely complicated patients in Augusta at the huge medical center, but you also see more common problems outside of that.
Scott Gilleland, Class of 2014
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uring the two pre-clinical years, you’ll acquire the building blocks of basic science that underlie medical practice and the skills required for clinical decision-making and patient interaction. You’ll learn the modular content of the curriculum in lectures, labs with integrated clinical conferences, and small-group activities. Your patient contact will begin in the first year in the Essentials of Clinical Medicine Course.
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n your clinically intensive third and fourth years, your options are as vast and diverse as the state we serve with more than 135 clinical training sites anchored by the medical school’s three clinical campuses: the Southeast Campus based in Savannah and Brunswick, the Southwest Campus based in Albany, and our newest campus, the Northwest Campus based in Rome. Clinical experiences also abound in Northeast Georgia through the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership based in Athens. Regardless of where you do your clinical rotations, you will find a high level of enthusiasm and commitment from the physicians and hospitals who open their doors to you.
The Medical College of Georgia, one of the nation’s first medical schools, is here to help you become part of the next generation of physicians. For more information, visit our Admissions Office website at gru.edu/mcg/admissions/ or call 706-721-3186.