Monday, January 15, 2007
Expanding the Empire.....
From the Journal-Constitution:Athens medical school just what the doc ordered
The site would be at the soon-to-be vacated Navy Supply Corps School located on some prime real estate in Athens. The site is adjacent to Athens Regional Medical Center.
MCG has already done this with its' nursing school. There is some talk of one day setting up an independant medical school at the Athens site:
From the Journal-Constitution:Athens medical school just what the doc ordered
Forty medical school students will begin attending a joint University of Georgia and Medical College of Georgia campus in Athens in 2009, paving the way for a new health science complex at the state's flagship university, UGA president Michael Adams said this week.
Adams, who gave a State of the University address Thursday, said Friday the collaboration could eventually put as many as 200 medical students in Athens, but he stopped short of saying UGA planned to develop its own medical college.
"What we proposed was a joint trial period," working with Medical College of Georgia, he said. "Nobody has committed to anything beyond that."
The site would be at the soon-to-be vacated Navy Supply Corps School located on some prime real estate in Athens. The site is adjacent to Athens Regional Medical Center.
Faculty members from both UGA and MCG will teach at the medical school, which MCG President Daniel Rahn described as a regional campus for the Augusta-based college.
In the past year, MCG has increased enrollment of first-year students from 180 to 190. Adding another 40 students a year in Athens beyond that number will help combat statewide and national physician shortages, he said.
The Association of American Medical Colleges has called for increasing enrollment of medical students by 30 percent by the year 2015 through expanding existing schools and creating new ones. After 20 years of no growth in the number of medical schools, several states, including Florida and Texas, are now building new ones.
Rahn said the Athens campus will be accredited and will use MCG's existing curriculum.
MCG has already done this with its' nursing school. There is some talk of one day setting up an independant medical school at the Athens site:
While no one is speculating publicly on whether the project could morph into a full-scale UGA medical school, the university has been placing an increasing emphasis on healthcare and research. In 2005, UGA opened a College of Public Health and a major center for biomedical and health sciences, and it has been ramping upThere has also been an Osteopathic school opened recently in Georgia.
the university has been placing an increasing emphasis on healthcare and research. In 2005, UGA opened a College of Public Health and a major center for biomedical and health sciences, and it has been ramping up bids for national research dollars. UGA and MCG already have partnerships in nursing and pharmacy programs.
Adams said, of the 10 largest states, Georgia is the only one without three public medical colleges. Currently, Medical College of Georgia is the state's only public medical school. Emory University, Mercer University and Morehouse College run private medical schools.
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