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Mercer Bears donate teddy bears to the Child Life program at the Willett Children’s Hospital at Memorial/HCA

The Mercer University School of Medicine Skelton Medical Library staff on the Savannah Campus collected 98 new, unused, toddler safe teddy bears from Mercer University School of Medicine faculty, students and staff. On December 2, they were donated to the Child Life Program at HCA Memorial Health Dwaine and Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital to be distributed to children during the holiday season.


Many thanks to all of the students, faculty and staff who donated teddy bears to the Teddy Bear Drive. Neal Hall, Class of 2023, is the recipient of the Teddy Bear Drive Drawing for a $25.00 Visa Card.

Medical Libraries Head of Technical Services and Archivist Miriam Hudgins to Retire Following 37 Years of Service - Mercer News MACON – Miriam Hudgins, head of technical services and archivist for Mercer University School of Medicine’s Dr. W. Douglas and Jane G. Skelton Medical Libraries, recently announced her retirement, effective June 30, following 37 years of service to the University. Hudgins began her library caree...

MUSM Celebrates 100-Percent Placement Rate on Match Day - Mercer News MACON/SAVANNAH/COLUMBUS – Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) celebrated the 2019 National Residency Match on March 15 at noon on all three of its campuses in Macon, Savannah and Columbus. A total of 108 graduating students were matched to postgraduate training programs in hospitals in Ge

The Skelton Medical library is now accepting applications for the 2019 Jocelyn A. Rankin Student Excellence in Library Research Award. Students currently enrolled in any of the MUSM programs across all MUSM campuses are invited to apply.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, April 22nd.

For more information and to apply, visit:
https://med.mercer.edu/library/jocelyn-a-rankin-award.htm

Thanks to the Faculty, Staff, and Students of the Savannah Campus we were able to donate 40 bears to the Chatham County Police Department!

Congratulations to Ms. Dawn, winner of the Class of 2022 Library Trivia Scavenger Hunt! Enjoy your MUSM swag and Starbucks gift card. 🎉

Thanks to everyone who participated. May you have a wonderful first semester of medical school!

Creating country doctors: Mercer’s mission vital to Georgia Dr. Jean Sumner likes to tell the story of how she once raised a woman “from the dead.” It happened years ago on a Thanksgiving Day when she was still working as a rural physician in the central Georgia town of Sandersville.

The library staff from both Savannah and Macon’s School of Medicine campuses merged today for in-service training. We thank our Macon colleagues for joining us today!

Mercer Medicine to Open Practice in Downtown Plains PLAINS – Mercer Medicine Plains, a primary care practice and division of the faculty practice of Mercer University School of Medicine, will open in early July at 107 Main St. in Plains. Since the closing of the Plains Medical Center in March, residents have been without an option for local health ...

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For the past month the Faculty, Staff, and Students of the Savannah Campus all participated in our Teddy Bear Drive. This year we collected 101 bears and donated them to the Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department. We are so thankful for the opportunity to give during this holiday season!

Everyone who donated a bear was entered into a drawing for a $100.00 Carrabbas gift card; Emily Ann Smith, MS-1 was the winner of our drawing.

Thank you to all who donated!

Today we celebrated National Medical Library Week with lunch and some fun for our students! Many of them played Operation and won some great prizes! We gave away 3 big prizes today! Mariana Rivera, MS-2, was the best surgeon today, John Douglas, MS-1, won our “guess the number of items in the library” game, and Tara Keil, MS-2, won our “selfie challenge”! Congratulations to our winners and it is always a pleasure to serve as your Medical Library Staff!

A group of our Medical Students delivered candy to Pediatric patients at at Memorial University Medical Center today. They call this activity “Reverse Trick or Treating” and they visited the Pediatric ICU, Neonatal ICU, and the Pediatric Ward!

Happy National Medical Library Week!

Greetings,
The Skelton Medical Library is now on Summer hours. We are open 8am-6pm Monday through Friday until the start of the Fall semester.

Thanks!

Greetings,

The Library will be closed Saturday, January 14 through Monday, January 16 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The Library will reopen on Tuesday, January 17.

Thanks! -Admin.

The Health Sciences Library summer hours are Monday through Friday, 8AM - 5PM. Normal hours will resume on August 8, 2016.

The Library will be closed for business this weekend! We will resume normal business hours on Monday, March 28, 2016.