Seep mcg program

Pre-college applicants must be 16 years or older by or before June 1st of the year for which the SEEP application is submitted. There is no application fee to submit your completed SEEP application. Password: case sensitive Forgot your password?

Samuel Taylor. Vanessa Spearman-McCarthy is a MCG graduate who completed a combined internal medicine and psychiatry residency program at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston; she has been honored by the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry for pioneering the unique pairing of the two specialties in an inpatient setting, and honored for her education of MCG students and residents as well as her humanity.

Or Morehouse School of Medicine graduate Dr. Or Dr. Sherita A. King , who went to medical school and did her urology training at MCG, followed by a sexual medicine fellowship at San Diego Sexual Medicine; today she is among a small number of Black female urologists in the nation, and her expertise includes male and female sexual function and incontinence.

Or like sisters Dr. Pamela Martin , a PhD graduate, and Dr. Moore-Hill is director of the adult neurology residency program, director of the continuous and prolonged ICU EEG program at Augusta University Health and a member of its multidisciplinary neuro-oncology clinic.

As a neurologist, she specializes in epilepsy in pregnancy, epilepsy in women of childbearing age, and epilepsy secondary to neuro-oncological disease, and also cares for seizures in critical illness. The two sisters grew up a few miles up the road from Augusta, in Harlem, Georgia. Their father was a factory worker, and their mother had planned to become an educator, but left school to care for their ailing grandmother. Martin says SEEP gave her not just confidence but also connected her with like-minded students, physicians and professors, which was affirming.

Likewise, Moore-Hill provides clinical mentoring to SEEP students, a key part of the curriculum that allows students to shadow a health care practitioner. She says that SEEP pushed her.

So, SEEP was helpful for me to expand upon my academic skill. I had to study harder. It just really provided a needed avenue to young doctors who looked like me…. SEEP opened that avenue completely for me. The way forward Approximately 2, students who grew up with a dream of entering a health profession have found a pipeline through SEEP. Frank Rumph and John T. Yet, even as recently as the late s, some classes could still count the number of minority students on one hand.

Today, through concerted efforts by administrators such as Dr. Paul Wallach, who served as vice dean for academic affairs at MCG from , incoming classes have reached closer to 50 to 60 Black and Hispanic students, out of a current class size of However, heightened racial tension over the past many months across the nation already has current Vice Dean Doug Miller and Dean David Hess enabling more support and conversations about the issues that minority students face, with the goal of more positive growth in both student numbers and scholarship in the near future.

Familiar faces Dr. Everyone wins from different programs in medicine being more diverse. Nor, perhaps, would free clinics, scholarships for under-represented students, or the need for repeated conversations about race. An oral surgeon in Warner Robbins, Dr. Vincent Carey, a Dental College of Georgia graduate, grew up in Macon, Georgia, in the s and s, in a rambling, four-bedroom house with his parents, his grandmother and his siblings — all 15 of them. This website uses cookies.

Contact privacy augusta. Each program prepares students for a future career in the health professions through an extensive academic program that includes a noncredit general, introductory biomedical science course that prepares students for upper level premedical science coursework; critical thinking and clinical-based, problem-solving skills development; and pre-professional and personal development.

There is no cost to participate in these programs.