Southeast Campus - Savannah, Georgia

Why choose MCG Savannah?

The Savannah community has long-been supportive of medical education. Students have been doing 4- to 6-week clinical rotations at St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System since 2007 and a residential campus was established there, a year ahead of schedule, in 2011. In addition to growth in the sheer number of students, educational opportunities are also expanding.

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For example, this year, the campus hosted its first ever Southeast Community Engagement and Research Conference, where students living and learning at that campus and across the state were able to conduct and present community-based research projects.

The campus would incorporate MCG’s innovative 3+ curriculum, which allows students to individualize their medical education – completing the medical school curriculum in three years, with options to complete a dual degree, such as an MD/MBA, or delve more into their chosen specialty in their fourth year. A select group of students, MCG’s Peach State
Scholars, instead opt to enter into a primary care residency program after they complete their third-year and then commit to serve in rural and underserved areas of the state, in exchange for a scholarship that covers the cost of their medical education.

A four-year campus of the Medical College of Georgia in Savannah, with 40 students per class, starting with their freshman year, would be a cooperative effort between MCG, Augusta University, St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System and Georgia Southern’s Savannah Campus, which is located directly across the street from St. Joseph’s Hospital, part of MCG’s Savannah home base.

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A large group of people stand at the front of a big auditorium. Three men in the middle of the group are holding a ceremonial pair of over-sized scissors to cut a ribbon signifying the opening of a new college campus.

Augusta University opens new Medical College of Georgia campus in Savannah

“This campus expansion builds on our long-standing commitment as the state’s flagship medical school to produce the best-trained doctors for Georgia."

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Elizabeth Gray, MD, named founding dean of new Medical College of Georgia four-year campus in Savannah

Elizabeth Gray, MD, an internist, has led the Savannah location of the Southeast Campus, home to about 80 third- and fourth-year students who live and learn in the area, since 2020.

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Augusta University’s Medical College of Georgia to open new four-year campus at Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University in Savannah

Georgia’s only public medical school has received funding approval to open a new four-year campus in Savannah, an expansion that will provide greater access to education and training for medical students and ease the state’s ongoing shortage of physicians.

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