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Mercer University School of Medicine

Type	Private
Established	1982
Dean	Jean Sumner
Students	387 (MD Students)
Location	Macon, Georgia Savannah, Georgia, USA
Website	http://medicine.mercer.edu

Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) is the graduate medical school of Mercer University and a component of the Mercer University Health Sciences Center. It was founded in 1982 in Macon, Georgia, United States, and in 2008 opened a second campus in Savannah, Georgia with either site allowing students to complete all four requisite years of medical training. In 2012 MUSM developed a third site in Columbus, Georgia at which students could elect to complete their third and fourth years of training. In 2021, the Columbus transitioned to a full four-year campus.

MUSM adopts a mission that is heavily directed towards training future physicians and health professionals to meet the primary care and health care needs of rural and medically underserved areas in the state of Georgia, and as such, prospective matriculants must be Georgia residents. MUSM has teaching hospital affiliations with two of the five Level I trauma centers in Georgia, the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, the second largest hospital in the state, and Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, the largest hospital in eastern Georgia and southern South Carolina.

Academic programs

In addition to the Doctor of Medicine degree offered by MUSM, a number of other degree programs are available through this institution:

• M.S. in Preclinical Sciences
• M.F.T. in Family Therapy
• Ph.D. in Rural Health Sciences
• Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences

MD Program Curriculum

Since its foundation in 1982, Mercer University School of Medicine has adopted a discussion based pre-clinical curriculum in lieu of the more traditional lecture format. This Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach to training students in the basic medical sciences focuses around small group discussions wherein students share didactic responsibilities and interact much more actively than in a standard lecture. In this system, each PBL group meets several times a week to review relevant literature and discuss issues pertinent to the current subject matter, and although each group contains a tutor (a professor of MUSM), there is no truly identified roles of teacher and student—instead, these roles are shared by every member of the group. Also in contrast to lecture-based programs, which generally necessitate subject exams, the PBL program makes use of multidisciplinary exams more similar in scope of content (i.e. multiple disciplines) to the USMLE board examinations.

Teaching affiliates and hospitals

Mercer Medicine

Mercer Medicine is the clinical component of the Mercer University School of Medicine through which faculty physicians of Internal and Family Medicine provide medical care to patients, while supporting a clinical learning environment for Mercer University medical students.

Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center

The Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center is located in Macon, Georgia and is the primary clinical site at which third and fourth year MUSM students in Macon complete their clinical training. This hospital is a teaching facility, and trains residents in five ACGME accredited programs: Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, and General Surgery. As of 1988, Atrium Health Navicent became the fourth hospital in the state of Georgia to function as a Level 1 Trauma Center.

Memorial University Medical Center

The Memorial University Medical Center is the affiliated hospital and medical training site for MUSM students in Savannah, Georgia. Memorial Hospital also allows for completion of six distinct ACGME accredited residencies: Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, General Surgery, and Diagnostic Radiology. Like MCCG, Memorial Hospital serves as a Level 1 Trauma Center. Memorial Hospital has received praise for its positive work environment: notably in 2007 when it was named one of Fortune magazine's "Top 100 Best Companies to Work For."

St. Francis Hospital/The Medical Center

Students completing their third and fourth years of training in Columbus, Georgia will rotate through both St. Francis Hospital and The Medical Center of Columbus. The Medical Center is an established teaching hospital, which has housed an ACGME accredited Family Medicine residency program since 1972.

References

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v t e Hospitals in Georgia
Acute care hospitals	AdventHealth Redmond Appling Hospital Bacon County Hospital Barrow Regional Medical Center Berrien County Hospital Bleckley Memorial Hospital Brooks County Hospital Burke Medical Center Calhoun Memorial Hospital Candler County Hospital Candler Hospital (Savannah) Cartersville Medical Center Charlton Memorial Hospital Chatuge Regional Hospital Chestatee Regional Hospital Children Hospital of Central Georgia The American Red Cross of Central Georgia Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite Clinch Memorial Hospital Cobb Memorial Hospital Coffee Regional Medical Center Coliseum Medical Centers Coliseum Northside Hospital Colquitt Regional Medical Center Crisp Regional Hospital DeKalb Medical DeKalb Medical Hillandale Doctors Hospital of Augusta Doctors Hospital of Columbus Doctors Hospital of Tattnall Dodge County Hospital Donalsonville Hospital Dorminy Medical Center East Georgia Regional Medical Center Effingham Hospital Elbert Memorial Hospital Emanuel Medical Center Emory Adventist Hospital Emory Eastside Medical Center Emory Johns Creek Hospital Emory University Hospital Emory University Hospital Midtown Emory University Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital Erlanger at Hutcheson Medical Center Evans Memorial Hospital Fairview Park Hospital Fannin Regional Hospital Flint River Hospital Floyd Medical Center Georgia Regents Medical Center Gordon Hospital Grady General Hospital Grady Memorial Hospital Gwinnett Medical Center-Duluth Gwinnett Medical Center-Lawrenceville Habersham Medical Center Hamilton Medical Center Hart County Hospital Higgins General Hospital Houston Medical Center Hughston Hospital Irwin County Hospital Jasper Memorial Hospital Jeff Davis Hospital Jefferson Hospital John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital Liberty Regional Medical Center Louis Smith Memorial Hospital Lower Oconee Community Hospital Mayo Clinic Health System in Waycross McDuffie Regional Medical Center Meadows Regional Medical Center Memorial Health University Medical Center Memorial Hospital and Manor Memorial Hospital of Adel Miller County Hospital Mitchell County Hospital Monroe County Hospital Morgan Memorial Hospital Mountain Lakes Medical Center Murray Medical Center Navicent Health Baldwin Newton Medical Center North Fulton Regional Hospital North Georgia Medical Center Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville Northridge Medical Center Northside Hospital - Cherokee Northside Hospital Northside Hospital Forsyth Optim Medical Center - Jenkins Optim Medical Center - Screven Palmyra Medical Centers Peach Regional Medical Center Perry Hospital Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Phoebe Sumter Medical Center Phoebe Worth Medical Center Piedmont Athens Regional Piedmont Fayette Hospital Piedmont Henry Hospital Piedmont Hospital Piedmont Mountainside Hospital Piedmont Newnan Hospital Pioneer Community Hospital of Early Polk Medical Center Putnam General Hospital Rockdale Medical Center Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital (Atlanta) Smith Northview Hospital South Fulton Medical Center South Georgia Medical Center Southeast Georgia Health System Brunswick Campus Southeast Georgia Health System Camden Campus Southern Regional Medical Center Southwest Georgia Regional Medical Center Spalding Regional Medical Center St. Francis Hospital St. Joseph's Hospital Savannah St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital St. Mary's Hospital Stephens County Hospital Stewart Webster Hospital Sylvan Grove Hospital Tanner Medical Center Carrollton Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica Taylor Regional Hospital The Medical Center, Navicent Health Tift Regional Medical Center Turning Point Hospital Union General Hospital University Hospital University Hospital Summerville Upson Regional Medical Center Walton Regional Medical Center Warm Springs Medical Center Washington County Regional Medical Center Wayne Memorial Hospital WellStar Cobb Hospital WellStar Douglas Hospital WellStar Kennestone Hospital WellStar Paulding Hospital Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital of Emory University West Georgia Medical Center Wildwood Hospital Wills Memorial Hospital
Long-term and rehabilitation hospitals	Central Georgia Rehabilitation Hospital Columbus Specialty Hospital DeKalb Medical Long Term Acute Care Kindred Hospital Atlanta Landmark Hospital of Athens Regency Hospital of Central Georgia Regency Hospital of South Atlanta Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Select Specialty Hospital Atlanta Select Specialty Hospital Augusta Select Specialty Hospital Savannah Shepherd Center Southern Crescent Hospital for Specialty Care Triumph the Specialty Hospital Rome Walton Rehabilitation Hospital WellStar Windy Hill Hospital Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital
Military hospitals	Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center Martin Army Community Hospital Winn Army Community Hospital
Psychiatry and addiction hospitals	Anchor Hospital Coastal Behavioral Health Coastal Harbor Treatment Center Coliseum Center for Behavioral Health Crescent Pines Hospital Hillside Hospital Laurel Heights Hospital Macon Behavioral Health System Peachford Hospital Ridgeview Institute RiverWoods Behavioral Health System Saint Simons By-The-Sea SummitRidge Hospital Talbott Recovery Atlanta Talbott Recovery Columbus Talbott Recovery Dunwoody Willingway Hospital Willowbrooke at Tanner Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus
State hospitals	Central State Hospital East Central Regional Hospital Georgia Regional Hospital Atlanta Georgia Regional Hospital Savannah Southwestern State Hospital West Central Georgia Regional Hospital
Veterans Administration hospitals	Atlanta VA Medical Center Carl Vinson VA Medical Center
Defunct hospitals	Atlanta Medical Center DeKalb County Addiction Center Georgia Mental Health Institute Georgian Clinic Southwest Atlanta Hospital

v t e Georgia trauma centers
List of hospitals in Georgia
Level I	Grady Memorial Hospital Northeast Georgia Medical Center Augusta University Medical Center * The Medical Center, Navicent Health * Memorial Health University Medical Center * Wellstar Kennestone Hospital
Level II	Piedmont Athens Regional Columbus Regional Medical Center Floyd Medical Center Gwinnett Medical Center Hamilton Medical Center John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital Wellstar North Fulton Hospital
Level III	AdventHealth Redmond Taylor Regional Hospital Clearview Regional Medical Center
Level IV	Lower Oconee Community Hospital Morgan Memorial Hospital Willis Memorial Hospital Emmanuel Medical Center
Pediatric trauma centers	CHOA Egleston Hospital (Level I) CHOA Scottish Rite Hospital (Level II) Children's Hospital of Georgia (Level I)
Burn centers	Joseph M. Still Burn Center Grady Burn Center
* Designated Adult I trauma center with pediatric commitment http://georgiatraumacommission.org/designated-trauma-centers/

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• Medical schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
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• Universities and colleges established in 1982
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