Medical College of Georgia at GRU Fact Sheet

The Fundamentals: Academic departments: 21 Academic centers & institutes: 4 Medical students: 884 M.D./Ph.D. students: 21 Residents and fellows: 454 training in 42 programs Postdoctoral fellows: 142 Faculty: 580 full-time 179 part-time 1,514 clinical/adjunct 2,273 total Staff: 690 full-time 89 part-time 779 total Endowed chairs: 42 Budget: $283 million FY 2013

The influence of the state of Georgia’s only public medical school spans from its founding in 1828 as one of the nation’s first medical schools to its current role optimizing health care in Georgia and beyond through education, discovery and clinical service.

The Medical College of Georgia, the founding school of Georgia Regents University, offers clinical training at approximately 135 sites across the state providing the full spectrum of medicine, from tertiary/quaternary care hospitals to small-town solo practices. The educational experience is anchored by MCG’s main campus in Augusta as well as regional clinical campuses in Albany, Savannah, Brunswick and Rome a four-year campus in Athens in partnership with the University of Georgia. Research initiatives focus on illnesses that affect most Georgians and Americans, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. Clinical service also targets the diverse needs of the state and nation, from frontline wellness care to complex care for the sickest adults and children.

Philanthropy: Enhancing philanthropy is a priority for medical college leadership, including increased support for scholarship and other academic endeavors. The Medical College of Georgia Foundation had a total endowment of $119 million at the end of fiscal year 2012 with $81.5 million of those funds committed to the medical school.

Alumni: • 9,987 living, located alumni; 4,939 living, located in Georgia

Extramural Grants and Contracts: • $95 million in fiscal year 2012, including $49 million in NIH funding • 94 percent increase in total funding for grants and contracts in the past decade and a 96 percent increase in NIH funding.

• Over the last 15 years, the faculty from the Medical College of Georgia have received over $1 billion in extramural grants and contracts (includes research, training, public service, other).

Areas of research excellence and emphasis: Cardiometabolic disease (cardiovascular, diabetes, obesity), neurological disease, public and preventive health, genomics and personalized medicine, cancer and regenerative medicine.

Defining Details:

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Founded in 1828, MCG was the first medical school in Georgia, is the third-oldest in the Southeast and the 13th-oldest in the nation. With 230 students, MCG has the ninth largest first-year student enrollment and the 14th largest total enrollment among the nation’s medical schools.

MCG students, 95 percent of whom are Georgia residents, represent widely diverse cultural, socioeconomic and academic backgrounds.

MCG students volunteer extensively in the community and beyond, including staffing an after-hours health care clinic for Augusta’s homeless, hosting an annual bone marrow donor drive, teaching lifestyle education to adolescents and working with the local Boys and Girls Clubs to interest under-represented and disadvantaged youths in the health professions.

For the second year in row, MCG has had a record numbers of applicants. Applications for the fall 2013 were up 18 percent over last year, with 2,815 students applying for 230 freshman slots.

• 1 in 5 Georgia physicians went to medical school or completed their residency at MCG. • 51.1% of MCG graduates practice in Georgia with an additional 26% practicing in the contiguous states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida.

• 30-40 percent of MCG’s graduates practice primary care.

• MCG ranks 11th nationally in American Heart Association funding.

Expanding: In 2006, MCG’s class size grew from 180 to 190 students, the first increase in 32 years. Opening of the GHSU/UGA Medical Partnership in Athens, Ga., four years later enabled a further increase to 230 students. The college plans to increase its class size to 300 after expanding educational resources, including construction of the J. Harold Harrison, M.D., Education Commons slated to open in 2014.

Strategic growth is enabled by clinical campuses for third- and fourth-year students. The campuses accommodate residential students as well as transitional students who come to campus for individual rotations.

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2012, MCG seniors obtained residency positions at 209 different programs in 35 states

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GRU includes nine colleges with nearly Stellar students: The Class of 2016: 2,384 applicants for 230 positions/acceptance ratio 9.6 to 1 3.7 average GPA 30.47 mean MCAT Four students enrolled in the MD/PhD program Step Scores: MCG students’ first-time taker pass rate and mean scores for Step 1 and 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination are consistently at or above the national average.

Making Matches: In 2012, 184 MCG seniors obtained residency positions at 209 programs in 35 states. 38 percent pursued primary care (49 percent in internal medicine, 13 percent in family medicine, 39 percent in pediatrics). 17 percent stayed in Georgia; 10 percent at GR Health System.

26th Dean of MCG Peter F. Buckley, M.D.

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Clinical campuses include: • The Southwest Campus based at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Ga. • Southeast Campus based at St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System in Savannah and Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick.

• The Northwest Campus, based in Rome, Ga., which will be fully operational in 2013.

Home Base: Georgia Regents University (GRU), home of the Medical College of Georgia, is one of only four public comprehensive research institutions in the state of Georgia. It’s also the newest research university in Georgia, emerging from the 2013 consolidation of Georgia Health Sciences University and Augusta State University by the University System of Georgia.

GRU includes nine colleges with nearly 10,000 students, 1,000 full-time faculty members and 5,000 staff members. In addition to MCG, the university houses the state’s only dental college, a growing intercollegiate athletics program and the Hull College of Business. With 650 acres of campus and nearly 150 buildings, the university is a $1 billion-plus enterprise with statewide and national reach.

GRU has a strong commitment to research, building on a proud tradition that boasts, among other achievements, the groundwork for such breakthroughs as fertility treatments and beta-blocking drugs for cardiac arrhythmias.

The university’s Health System includes a 478-bed adult and 154-bed pediatric hospital where 15,771 adults and 3,676 children were treated in fiscal year 2012. Additionally the Health System experienced nearly 356,767 outpatient and 83,286 emergency room visits and provided about $35 million in charity care during that period. The hospitals are the region’s Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma centers with service lines that include digestive health, neuro, cancer and heart.

Augusta is Georgia’s second-largest city with an area population of about a half million. The area is a leading health care center of the Southeast, with facilities including the Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center.

The Dean: Dr. Peter F. Buckley, a psychiatrist whose expertise includes leadership development and planning, was named the 26th Dean of the Medical College of Georgia in February 2011.

Contact information: Office of the Dean Medical College of Georgia Georgia Regents University AA 1002 Augusta, GA. 30912 mcgdean@gru.edu 706-721-2231 Phone 706-721-7035 Fax gru.edu/medicine