Medicine from Georgia Tech

OldTimer1234
Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:01:17 +0000

@ VirginaBelle and @“Amberlanya Herwana”

From my research, there are 4 allopathic medical schools in Georgia (M.D. degree):

1. Emory University School of Medicine

2. * Medical College of Georgia

3. Mercer University School of Medicine

4. Morehouse University School of Medicine

There is only 1 osteopathic medical school in Georgia (D.O. Degree):

1. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (Georgia Campus)

NONE of these medical campuses are convenient from UGA’s undergraduate campus in Athens. The one that is associated with the state university system, *Medical College of Georgia, is in Augusta - that’s approximately 1 1/2 - 2 hours from UGA’s undergraduate campus in Athens. That makes it completely unrealistic for an undergraduate pre-med student at UGA to conduct the type of research, shadowing, etc. that is occurring on some other undergraduate campuses DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.

Are there plenty of people who become a doctor attending UGA undergraduate, of course there are! However, it means working on these extracurricular requirements over the summer and possibly even taking a gap year between undergraduate and applying to medical schools to attain the extracurriculars (shadowing and clinical experiences) needed as compared to universities I listed above where a student can walk between classes and a hospital or MEDICAL research lab within a few minutes.

If you are shooting for Medical College of Georgia, it accepts from ALL the GA state university campuses, and there are honestly easier choices to keep the GPA needed for medical school admissions up than UGA or GA Tech. Of course, you also need to worry about MCAT scores as well, and perhaps UGA or GA Tech will better prepare you for MCATs than some other in-state choices? I don’t know about that, because my one daughter who wants to be a doctor opted to go out-of-state. Her friend who wants to be a doctor, transferred from GA Tech to Emory after her freshman year because of the drawbacks I mentioned. I only bumped into this thread because my youngest daughter has UGA as her first choice for her undergraduate degree - Please do not get me wrong, UGA and GA Tech are both GREAT SCHOOLS, but there are some drawbacks you should be aware as far as what’s available on campus for those students following a pre-med track.

The reality is at some point you will be working REALLY hard to attain medical school admissions - it really depends what you feel will be the best choices for you, but I wanted to chime in so you consider all the information before making a final choice.

GOOD LUCK, WHEREVER YOU DECIDE TO ATTEND!