MCG 2016 Facts

Ninety-five percent of MCG students are Georgia residents, representing widely diverse cultural, socioeconomic and academic backgrounds. The state’s medical school is committed to ensuring each class is diverse and reflective of the state it serves.

Students will log more than 9,000 hours of volunteer work, collectively, over their first and second years of medical school. They volunteer in the community and beyond, including staffing an after-hours health care clinic for Augusta’s homeless and underinsured, tutoring disadvantaged youth, and running a farmer’s market that offers produce and ideas on healthy eating to people in the inner city. They also regularly volunteer at programs for students of all ages aimed at inspiring the next generation of physicians.

• 30 MD/PhD students
• 117 PhD students
• 9th largest total enrollment
• 3,092 applicants
• 13.4 to 1 percent acceptance ratio
• 200 percent increase in class diversity from 2010-15
• 3.72 overall GPA, above national average
• 30.7 mean MCAT, at national average at or above the national average
• First-time taker pass rate and mean scores from Step 1 and 2 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination consistently
• 60 percent participation in research among MCG students

Workforce

• 534 residents and fellows training in 45 programs
• 144 postdoctoral research fellows

Statewide Impact

The educational experience is anchored by MCG’s main campus in Augusta, as well as regional clinical campuses and a four-year campus in Athens in partnership with the University of Georgia. As the state’s only public medical school, statewide growth of medical education is a priority at MCG. Expanding partnerships with physicians and hospitals throughout Georgia ensures that students experience the full spectrum of medicine, from urban hospitals to small-town solo practices, with a focus on primary care and providing health care to medically underserved areas.

• Main Campus, Augusta, 190 students per class
• Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, Athens, 40 students per class
• Southeast Campus, Savannah and Brunswick, 40 third- and fourth-year students
• Southwest Campus, Albany, 22 third- and fourth-year students
• Northwest Campus, Rome, 17 third- and fourth-year students

Class of 2016

• All 223 Class of 2016 graduates matched among 24 specialties in 34 states.

Students matched at top training programs across the nation, such as Johns Hopkins, Mount Sinai and Harvard. Twenty-eight percent of our students will be doing their residency in Georgia, and a little more than half of those will train at MCG and AU Health’s residency programs. Almost half of our students matched in primary care - internal medicine, pediatrics and family medicine – and other top specialties included emergency medicine, anesthesiology and general surgery.

Alumni

• MCG has more than 11,000 living/located alumni with 5,203 living in Georgia
• 1 in 5 Georgia physicians graduated from MCG and/or completed their residency at MCG and AU Health.
• More than 51 percent of graduated remain in the state to practice, well above the national average, with 30-40 percent practicing primary care.

Philanthropy

Philanthropy remains a top priority for medical college leadership. Gifts to the state’s public medical school help pay for building projects such as the J. Harold Harrison, M.D., Education Commons; fund scholarships that help recruit the best and brightest students; establish endowed chairs; and provide financial support for faculty and students.

• MCG has 56 endowed chairs, an all-time high.
• The current endowment for the medical school at the MCG Foundation is approximately $200 million, an all-time high.
• 10 endowed chairs and 48 scholarships will be established over the next five years, funded by the transformative $66 million gift from 1948 graduate Dr. J. Harold Harrison and his wife, Sue.

the Dean

Dr. Peter F. Buckley, a psychiatrist and clinical researcher whose expertise includes leadership development and planning, was named 26^th dean in 2011.

• One of four state public comprehensive research institutions
• Nine colleges and schools
• Nearly 9,000 students
• 1,000 full-time faculty
• 7,000 staff
• 125 educational programs
• Georgia's only dental school
• An aligned and integrated health system
• A growing and intercollegiate health system
• A growing intercollegiate athletics program

• 478-bed adult hospital
• 154-bed children’s hospital
• Only Level 1 adult & pediatric trauma center serving 13 surrounding counties
• Medical Office Building, with more than 80 outpatient practice sites in one building
• Digestive Health Center
• Georgia Radiation Therapy Center
• Sports Medicine Center
• Georgia Cancer Center
• World-renowned for patient- and family-centered care
• Alliances across the state, including an affiliation with Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation as well as innovative collaborations with Philips and Cerner

In FY2015

• 19,000 admissions
• 365,400 outpatient visits
• 89,415 emergency room visits
• $58 million in charity care for Georgians

Augusta University Medical Associates is the centralized faculty practice plan for the Medical College of Georgia that provides all revenue-related activities for the clinical providers in the AU Health System and oversees the management of ambulatory operations, both on and off campus. Medical Associates had a total revenue of $157 million in FY15. MCG faculty practice in Medical Associates clinics across the state.

Office of the Dean
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta University
1120 15th St, AA-1002
Augusta, GA 30912

mcgdean@augusta.edu

Dean’s Office: 706-721-2231
Admissions: 706-721-3186
Financial Aid: 706-737-1524
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