How many new medical students will be educated under the proposed plan and where will they be educated?
The Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine would expand its class size in Augusta to 240 students per year by 2015, an increase of 26 percent over the school’s current class of 190 students. In total, MCG will have 300 medical students per class by 2020, an increase of 60 percent over its present student enrollment of 745 students. By 2020, the MCG School of Medicine’s total enrollment will increase to 1,200 students — 960 medical students in Augusta with 60 of those students spending their third and fourth years in Albany or Savannah at MCG’s clinical campuses and 240 medical students at the Athens campus.
