The Premier 2-Week Intensive

Residential Clinical and Research Experience at Wellstar MCG Health

The 2027 program takes place in Augusta, Georgia at Wellstar MCG Health — one of four Level 1 Trauma Hospitals in Georgia and the main teaching hospital for the Medical College of Georgia, established in 1828 and among the five largest medical school programs in the United States. The main facility is a 478-bed teaching hospital offering a vast array of specialties, including a Level I Trauma Center, the Children's Hospital of Georgia (CHOG), and the Georgia Cancer Center.

Wellstar MCG Health is the academic medical center of Wellstar Health System, one of Georgia's largest nonprofit health systems. When Wellstar partnered with Augusta University in 2023, it committed some $800 million over ten years to the facilities, technology, and clinical training that happen here — and together, the hospital and the Medical College of Georgia form the state's only public academic medical center. MCG is Georgia's only public medical school and its flagship: founded in 1828, it is the 13th-oldest medical school in the nation and one of the largest, enrolling a class of 304. Fellows train inside that institution — and, at the program's end, present their research to its physicians.

MIAP Fellows will:

• Shadow experienced physicians as they diagnose and treat patients.
• Observe a range of surgical procedures.
• Interact directly with patients, gaining valuable clinical experience.
• Develop essential skills under the guidance of physicians and medical staff.
• Shadow every day — at least one shadowing session daily, in a surgical, procedure-room, or clinical setting.
• Develop an independent research project and present it in front of faculty, administrators, staff, and peers.

• Topic selection: Choose a clinical topic with guidance from your physician mentors.
• Research during the Fellowship: Develop your study across the two weeks, alongside your rotations and daily shadowing.
• Formal presentation: Deliver your findings in the Grand Lecture Hall at the hospital.
• A physician audience: Present before Medical College of Georgia physicians and faculty.
• Questions & discussion: Field questions from the audience — the same grand-rounds format physicians use with one another.

Before You Arrive: The Pre-Requisite Packet

Acceptance is where the work starts. Every accepted Fellow receives a preparatory packet to study before arrival — basic anatomy, hospital rules and etiquette, and the related foundations the program builds on. It is assigned pre-reading, completed before the session begins, so you arrive ready to step into the hospital and learn from your first shadowing session.