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Innovations in Medical Education: The Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine Experience

Authors: Janis A. Work, PHD, Peggy J. Wagner, PHD, T. Andrew Albritton, MD, Christopher White, MD, Andria Thomas, PHD, Ruth-Marie E. Fincher, MD

Abstract

Picture two community-based physicians instructing seven student apprentices in two borrowed rooms in the City Hospital of Augusta, GA (http://www.mcg.edu/history/index.asp). That was the setting when the Georgia state governor signed a charter for a state medical academy in 1828. The original curriculum consisted of a 1-year lecture series. Two more physicians joined the faculty, the curriculum expanded to 2 years, and, in 1833, the first four graduates were awarded medical degrees. Two years later, the young medical school moved from the City Hospital into a separate building.

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