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

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...