” said Jean Sumner, M.D., FASCP, dean of the School of Medicine. “Southwest Georgia has the greatest need for improved access to health care in the state. The Columbus campus will allow Mercer to help address some of those needs. We appreciate the opportunity...
said discussions are under way to open a four-year medical school on Memorial's campus to address the physician deficit.Memorial is tentatively looking to partner with Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon to provide the clinical training at Memorial, not to own the school, Colvin said....
will enable the School of Medicine to increase the campus’ enrollment to 240 Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) students over the next several years, eventually equaling the size of its campuses in Macon and Savannah.
“Now in rural Georgia, there are (fewer) physicians, so children can’t aspire to be something they don’t see. They don’t see that role model out there, so we have to connect with them some way,” said Sumner, who became dean of the Mercer University School of Medicine a...
About Mercer University School of Medicine (Macon, Savannah and Columbus) Mercer University’s School of Medicine was established in 1982 to educate physicians and health professionals to meet the primary care and health care need...