Medical College of Georgia appoints new dean

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The new Athens campus of the Medical College of Georgia has a new chief.

Dr. Barbara L. Schuster comes from Wright State University's Boonshoft School of Medicine in Ohio.

The expansion of Augusta-based MCG is part of the school's plan to increase its class size 60 percent to 1,200 by 2020 to help address a doctor shortage in Georgia.

MCG is Georgia's only public medical school.

(Associated Press)

New medical school a possibility

Georgia could get another medical school. Brenau University in Gainesville has hired a consulting firm to do a feasibility study on the idea. Georgia has four medical schools now – the Medical College of Georgia, Mercer, Emory and Morehouse. They get 1,100 applications a year but can only accept a fourth of that.