Was accepted into residencies but they couldnt ratify that because of not having Part II of the Boards. I, too came from a Caribbean medical school and am almost finished with my residency training. They confiscated my As with everything, offshore medical education like that in Caribbean countries is not a monolith. When picking your medical school, or your job and location; examine yourself. Hello, please can you email me, I have a few questions thanks. Stanford has a higher acceptance rate than the ten most competitive medical schools, which accepted an average of 2.5% of all applicants. Saba University School of Medicine makes it possible for students to earn their degree in under 4 years, spending 20 months studying Basic Sciences on the campus in Saba, completing an 8-week research module and returning to the U.S. or Canada for 72 weeks of clinical rotations. I just couldnt. Currently my student loan debt is $640,000.00 no wait, its $642,000.00. Your generalization based upon a few Caribbean graduates is rather harsh and ill informed. If you dont like dealing with problems that you are not used to, please the Caribbean is not for you. Chukwumah I will like to get in touch with you. Things were not running the same, at the same pace or according to expectations when not home. The loans are private and the rates are through the roof. The school also offers yoga and meditation classes, volleyball, soccer, basketball, tai chi, spinning, kick boxing, jiu jitsu, dancing classes, and many more that I dont remember. Same concepts, but emphasis on certain topics differ, which can change test scores. I have been reading through many of the negative posts and my thoughts have been similar to yours (Ivy League Army Doc). If a student does fall below either mark students may or may not be allowed to decel, which means repeating the failed class; however, this looks bad on a residency app and if one fails again they are almost certainly dismissed (rare exceptions). Emily, I share your frustration. I would still go back to med school if some things changed. Required GPA for entrance as of 2019 (newly instated): 2.0 on a 4.0 scale They know we want it so bad, so they literally pimp us and design the curriculum to weed out even good students. had paid hundreds of dollars for the Fianza bond but they tried to is worse still. I met with the owner and the dean of the school in Manhattan asking why, I had a 3.5 GPA BY THEIR OWN STANDARDS and they would not let me sit for the exam. Granted, it is true that some medical schools prepare you much better than others. Ive applied to 6 PA schools and also MSN/DNP programs for this years cycle. Perhaps they have changed their attendance requirements, but during my time, only the clinical skills class and labs were required. Most schools will have a facebook group so if youre looking to get into one, join those groups and ask questions. As with anything, proceed with caution. I have to repeat, there is some truth in other peoples stories, the good and bad ones. I actually met one student who got a full tuition scholarship through this program. I know what you went through. Of course so many were offered a second chance to become physicians but did not like the island and decided to leave, or were not a material for med school. Ive gotten As and Bs in my first two years and so far all As for my core rotations and electives. You will make a good healer at whatever level you practice healthcare. Everything is poorly taught by profs with very thick foreign accents and there is no time to properly review the material. Think about the Caribbean life, and residency, and being a physician. If you need to go to the Caribbeans, just do it, if you need to retake the MCAT and study in USA, just do it; noone else can tell you what is right for you. Its really sad. Would my patients trust my judgment if they found out where I went? Instead I chose nursing and just enough non-nursing science classes to earn a BA in biology also. Is it worth it? However, I will not mention its name because I have seen others in this comment section malign and accuse others of being paid or asked by the school to do this. We often rotated in non-teaching hospitals, and were used as surrogate Interns! If things are too much, ask for help or if you really have to, its wise to let go and go to your plan B and C. The UWI was recently ranked 37th among leading universities in Latin America and the Caribbean by the UK Times Higher Education. We all have a place at the table. Medical school is hard, it is going to be hard no matter where you go. Ultimately, you need to be the kind of person that could teach your self medicine from home, as if it were an online program. It is stressful but it is ALL ABOUT WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT!!!! It might be primary care but you will be an MD as opposed to maybe going to PA school or some other area of healthcare. None of that is good enough to get into a US medical school though. I spent a lot of time crying!! This is obviously SGU lol for anybody who is not familiar with the Caribbean route. projector for the Anatomy professoryou were exempt from finals. Nowadays would first shoot for a US DO or MD first since it opens the door to residency, not that it will make you a smarter doctor. It is emotionally trying. I, unlike some of you on here, dont have to attend an international medical school. The medical schools of Saint Kitts and Nevis have a match rate of 45%. You will have lives in your hands and you SHOULD be held to higher standards. Did clinicals in NYCgot accepted to a University Hospital IM residency in the South and now Im applying for fellowship in a competitive field currently with what one would say are a lot of interviews. I feel that no one who is truly motivated and belongs in the field of medicine can fail if they have such an attitude. Things will never run like home when you are abroad, believe me, I flew from the Caribbean, home to US, and to my birthplace Southern of Africa and went back via Europe. Only 50% of these foreign med grads find an actual internship. Hi please I really need help and direction I will appreciate if we can talk am a Nigerian too considering going to the medical school in carebbean ,please call me 08035100134, Hi Pamela-this student does not indicate which Caribbean medical school he/she attended, Grenada or Dominica or others. Are you the type of person that can adapt easily and those things dont bother you? It seems hard for an offshore med student who passes all of the same exams as a stateside student (they have to, its mandatory, and no there are no shortcuts) to be somehow vastly inferior to the point of them being incompetent compared to stateside students. Trumps budget for the 2019 fiscal year will cut funding for graduate medical education by forty-eight billion dollars. We need you. With everything else completed, they did me every disservice to prevent me from taking my exam this offered no benefit. There was no time for me to take it again for this application season. No wonder why the attrition rate is so high, or why students turn to illicit or prescribed drugs to cope. Despite what sources say, it doesnt actually publish the average GPA or MCAT scores of its admitted students. I did well but still the rude awakening of seeing how all they care about is the money and not the student was the straw that broke the camels back. medical school is not a bed or roses anywhere. I will have to look into this before I make my final decision. There are also preferences given to the many other groups for one reason or another. If they did they wouldnt have the demand they do now because if we were given all of the facts, some us would have chosen a field within health care that doesnt require this amount of chance, debt, stress, and moral compromise. Thanks! 5) Students who can not self study and teach themselves the material fail. So the fact that you learned medicine, means you can utilize it to save lives when needed, or expand it in any career path as an assistant or team-player helping patients. but I knew I was going to be there for less than 2 years and my desire to become a doctor was greater than the hassle of dealing with island inconveniences. For example- can you go a day or two without showering in your apartment because theres a water outage? Lost their minds Its worth a shot. Minimum of three years of undergraduate studies (or 90 semester hours/135 quarter hours including pre-medical requirements from an accredited college or university). Required fields are marked *. Remember this is your DREAM, never forget that. So david did you find a residency match yet. It certainly means you are a hard worker but I dont know how it measures smarts.. To start, you need to be financially secure. So here am I with no way to support myself after putting in all that effort (which given all youve heard plus while having a family). Its accredited (provisional for the year via CAAM-HP), there are 2 Caribbean campuses (Anguilla and Saint Vincent) and a head office in Park Ridge Illinois. 80% of lectures and labs are mandatory, which I believe is inconvenient for many of us. They may For me I caved, my mental health went kaboom. Do this and youll become a doctor. However, once it was time to enter Med 5 (the final semester), administration then told these students that they arent allowed to go into MD 5 without first completing the bachelors program that they decided to skip initially. I remember studying homeless in the park for the MCAT with a head flashlight on. Getting into medical school in Canada is very tough, and less but still tough in the US. The school initially allowed it and let them move on throughout Med 1 med 4. Hi Dr. Wible, Everyone has different experiences about their transition at Caribbean medical schools. Here are the results of recent residency matches for Saba students: In the U.S.* C/O R3 Education Inc. 27 Jackson Road, Suite 301, Devens, Massachusetts 01434, On Saba IslandSaba University School of MedicineP.O. a year or so ago I was contacted by a USFMG in Colorado who had gone to the Caribbean and was struggling for an internship. California approval is a good indicator of quality because their board is very strict in evaluating a school. The reason you came to this school is because it would accept you. Drop out rate is also terrible. AMCAS, AAMC etc. Hi! If you want to be one of those few that make it to writing the USMLE and beyond, you need to be tough and have a great support system in place. I did a 1 year post-bacc program after undergrad and ended up with a 3.65 and still I knew my chances were low. You learn how to make relationships with the right people if you are smart and people that keep you on track. Now most of student who is from where I m (California ) go for some Linkage program and fees for that is 60K. Provisional CAAM-HP accreditation Students come to the gym to release some stress and have some social interactions with other students as well. Digging around for genuine reviews on Saba is pretty difficult. The school offers an introductory semester called Foundations or something like that. We had a Siesta in between the morning and afternoon classes, but this meant having to commute twice. Perhaps these are rare and extreme occurrences but they are most certainly real. May I ask what the tuition is in Nigerian medical schools? When it comes to Caribbean medical schools, I think there are a lot of both pros and cons. I graduated grade school and undergrad in the US for computer sciences. It is as follows: Transcript fee: $10. You just have to decide how much you can handle, what attitude you are going to pull up, and it if it is even worth it, lets say something hinders you from making it. Do you have any advice or information on this medical school? If you are socially awkward, then medicine is not right for you. More than 3,000+ Saba graduates now practice medicine across the U.S. and Canada, and their ongoing success has helped cement Sabas reputation as a leading medical school. Since SJSM is accredited and has students that match, I can say truthfully that if you have everything else going for you that you can make it through and become a doctor. I couldnt emphasize on that more. During my gap year my daugther was killed in an accident. Since you wrote this go after them legally and fix the system. I know Im a bit late to the discussion here, but this article really helped me. I personally dont though Im sure they exist. however, since their establishment, AUA has not expanded their library seating. I spent thousands of dollars taking a couple classes in order 1. Chances are, you will fail. She was the last vestige of the old AUC before DeVry devoured it. Spot on! Especially with stats like 8000 applicants for 120 seats.Thats a joke,when a great number of those seats go to minorities .A student that is 24 or 25 years old doesnt have the time to wait year after year to get in hopefully. Saba is not currently subject to the jurisdiction of and thus has not received authorization from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. He received $85k from AUA and $75k from SGU, but contacted the dean and will try to get more. I am the type of person that has to do everything by myself and sometimes God blesses me with people to help. America's leading voice on ideal medical care & doctor suicide. But, if you really want to become a physician, you have to think about your priorities in life and decide if you want to spend another year trying to get accepted in the US or rather start sooner than later in a Caribbean school. Things all happen for a reason. The best schools in the Caribbean are: SABA, ST George, MUA, AUA, and Ross St. Matthews is okay, but they did not get approved in California and this concerns me. Specifically, the following bodies have approved, recognized or licensed Saba University School of Medicine: Saba University School of Medicine is one of the select international medical schools approved to participate in U.S. Federal Student Aid programs.Comparability to US Medical School RequirementsThe United States Department of Education, via the National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation (NCFMEA), reviews the standards that countries use to accredit medical schools. I saw them dismiss hard-working students who were already in 4th term and close to already over $300k in debt. All of the disappointments. would stab you in the back with a unilateral attendance policy (too bad Would you? Not loose my ability to preform academically and 2. not a dorm-which AUA has been deligating that to nearby apt housing complexes on the island. Saba University School-Medicine - Reviews 5.0 Written by an Indeed User on August 28, 2021, 04:31 PM Other Comments Good certification. So I say that to say this: I dont think the issue is so much with Caribbean schools themselves for a student who is able to make it to licensing because that road is not easy and not just anyone can do it. Also was a straightforward 1 day exam ECFMG you needed to pass to be eligible for residency. Im a 41 year old commercial pilot. The strategy some of the schools will employ is to just admit anyone with a bioscience background. Run fast and far away from the American University of Antigua College of Medicine right now. This person did not do due diligence homework before going. At the end of the day, its about affecting the world around us positively. Thank you. I do not recommend any living organism to AUA and the island. More surprisingly is this school has partnerships with hospital in New Jersey and New York that offer to cover half or full tuition to students eligible for the scholarship. Thanks Tori. They were going to keep us there until the middle of JULY! As a provider you have no opportunities to change a system that has been designed by non-medical bureaucrats. I compared our academic schedule to too schools in California, and we have an average if 3 to 4 weeks less time to study, and our modules are way shorter than US schools. I would challenge you to speak with doctors in America now (brilliant doctors I may add) who attained their medical degrees from Nigeria and ask them what life as a medical student in Nigeria was like. I wish to know what University over there in the caribbeans you would recommend from your own cognition and what school you attend now. One thing I would tell you is not to judge newcomers so harshly in the moment and understand that everyone reaches their potential at different rates. I was willing to fight through everything else even ignore how scary it was to have hurricanes. Do you need health insurance to go to Saba University? Saba University School of Medicine students who successfully complete the requisite licensing examinations are eligible to practice medicine in Canada, Puerto Rico and all 50 U.S. states. We literally teach highs school and early college students about Cardiac and Endocrine embryology. This is not undergraduate, welcome to the majors. Saba University School of Medicine has rolling admissions. The problem is that everyone who makes it that far is not necessarily dedicated to being the best they can be at what they do, and that is the point where we get bad Doctors, not because the schools are terrible, but because the students themselves are many times not highly motivated to be the best. Pros of the school: You must be honest with yourself. Its a nightmare, I attended Noreste in Tampico in the early Eighties. i am not too sure how much truth this holds. Hes into football (soccer), learned Spanish after 5 years in Spain, and has had his work published all over the web. Check out this day in the life of a Saba student as evidence for that. Whatever happens, there is one thing I know; I been learning to be a doctor and now that I am well, if I could do it again, I would go for it. I cant think of something further from the truth. With the FMGEMS horror, and all the abuse, incoming classes went from 150 to 80, to 25 to 12 to ZERO in the span of a few years. I am telling you you are making a mistake with this school. Since 1987, no more than six per cent of medical students in the U.S. each year have come from families with poverty-level incomes. Support? ; Participants can check in at the Broadway entrance of Lerner Hall upon arrival. DO schools are in the US (not Caribbean?). But they make it and they become doctors. I was not allowed to take my step 2 exam. Wow! Yet, school position is, they have more than the minimum seat requirement for institution to qualify as one. Info came directly from admissions committee. You sound like youve been contacted by the faculty of sgu and asked to write a counter piece my friend. There were congressional attempts to stem to the tide offshore. I have a very strong application. Saba University makes it possible for students to earn their degree in under 4 years, spending 20 months studying Basic Sciences on the campus in Saba, completing an 8-week research module and returning to the U.S. or Canada for 72 weeks of clinical rotations. We also have visiting professors from the US medical schools that teach a good portion of our classes here, so most of the professors have not been all that bad. After about a month the class will be down to 900 or so. Students are used to having brilliant or at least decent professors. In some other nations schools the applicants enroll then get filtered via attrition but many more at least get a shot at the title Granted when I was a student the tuition was much less, about 1400 USD/ semester thus total debt was also less. Had I not took care of my Taxes, Citizenship standing, I would have been required to pay 10,000USD donation for being an international student and a different tuition rate. Some that are very close to making it out of there, but still need to face with taking the USMLE Step 1 exam, which I have heard of success and not so successful stories. It wasnt as intense as some of the Island schools. How do I know, because thousands and thousands have passed through and are now doctors and you didnt. The American students that apply for this school either 1. were not smart enough to get into a school in the United States or 2. were not working hard enough. Students are eligible for U.S. Federal and Canadian Provincial Loans Do not overwork doctors. Thats why I was like, comparing doesnt help. Hi,Jane, Im from Nigeria and also a prospective medical student in one of the medical schools in the Caribbean. I have survived insurmountable obstacles in my life and I have no doubt I will survive medical school in the Caribbean. and etc. How can it be a 80% attrition rate then. But I guess thats more reasonable than going to that one Phil MED school allowing US Student Loans and US MED/Caribbean Territory rates. You are obviously very smart if you are reading this post. I graduated from school in 2004. Our school placed a random selection of students in a motel 5 miles from campus. We have a lot of student organizations in case you want to show off your leadership skills. I was in shock and started crying like I never had before. If you were surprised, Im not sure why because for our class, they literally had a mandatory lecture in Term 1 where we learned all about WMPG correlation to Step scores, and why it was important for us to do well in order to get a residency. Around 30K+ doctors did not get residency last year. Hopefully they wont hinder you or affect you beyond what you can handle. Made some great friends there, kept my nose in the books, by no means was I killing it but I got through the 2 years of basic sciences on the island without a hitch. SGU pushes students to maintain above an 80%, because that correlates with ~220 >> the bare minimum that IMGs from SGU should get if they want to match into a non-competitive residency. Like a fellow doc from Berkely told me, the socialist goal is to get doctors off their ivory towers and everone should get the same reward regadless of their effort. If you wanted to be a dermatologist and got a 230 on Step, it is the equivalent of saying good luck knowing you, you will not be able be a dermatologist.Maybe internal medicine is good for you! All in all, that is how it is. The author above complains about the lectures being terrible and no guidance is given to students. I would like to work with you. Students come to the gym to release some stress and have some social interactions with other students as well. THIS DEGREE IS RECOGNIZED NOWHERE! Also, you will have to teach yourself majority of the time, but like I said if you are dedicated you can do it, take it from someone who basically taught herself all of medicine coming out of high school. I graduated from AUC back in 1998 and my experience was very different from the one described above. No consideration was given to the obstacles that I had to over come just to graduate undergrad, or that I finished top of my class in law school. As for the educational component of the school, the quality of education is variable. corrupt physicans/practices that may hire you. I was loving reading your post until I got to that section, leaving a very sour taste in my mouth. I have been looking at their school as a Med school option. If you end up being one of the few that graduate from Saba, then it will be because you have enormous outside family support, both financially and emotionally. Like being released into the ocean with weights to make sure you never see the sunlight on surface ever again.. sometimes we get away with mistakes (being poorly trained) but dont envy US. Eventually the SGA got ahold of the provost and wrote to him about what was going on. Are current students honest with them during the interview process? There are lots of lawyer at USA for wrong thing so why there no lawyer for any kids and fix the system? An intern physician deep into a career change. This is a business to them so they highlight only the good to lure you in. Read: >>> Top Ranking Universities in USA Admissions Rolling admissions. I mentor medical students and have taught several from abroad. Please your guidance will be very much appreciated. Education. Which is exactly what you are doing and I so dearly respect you for all your efforts. I disagree with you through and through. and because AUC has smaller class size, Federal Financial Aid availability, good housing, and NBME exam access for all subjects. program is accredited by the Accreditation Organization of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), the accrediting body for the Netherlands and Flanders.Approved by New York, California, and FloridaSaba University School of Medicine is one of the few international medical schools with approvals in the key states of New York, California and Florida. Being awarded a $900K grant from the W.M. From above posts the attrition rate is high but many get the chance they couldnt get in their home country. Proof of coverage is necessary upon matriculation and is often required by hospitals prior to students beginning a clinical rotation. The only time this happens is when the instructor committed a serious crime and got stripped of their license to practice medicine. How is it that Financial Aid continue to give loans and assistance to schools and are not creating medical doctors. If you are not serving the correct master then you are out. Also, you can ask the faculty to hook you up with a few ex-students who have matched (this is what I did) and honestly it was their advice I let sink in my head more than the negatives. I am a Nigerian.i have a child who wants to study in the Caribbean so will love to hear from you. This is one of the best Caribbean medical schools. Youll always have to fight and be your own advocate but I cant complain because without them, I wouldnt be getting my degree next year! So you looking at a 50% chance of being unemployed.But hey Mcdonalds has all the fries you can eat after if you work there after you graduate, since after graduation you will not be certified, do you plan in staying in that island, cause you are not going to be working as a physician without ecfmg certification, and then it is 50-50 to get matched into a residency. Coming from 3rd world country, I will tell you that a Caribbean medical school is like heaven compared to what I went through in Nigeria. A business model that preys upon the hopes and dreams of our best and brightest compassionate young healers is one of the sickest things Ive ever witnessed. Instead of affecting rent, which couldnt increase enough to cover the losses, this resulted in increased corruption. Everything is possible, if being a doctor is your destiny. Everybody gets accepted fuck you are paying in dollars in a third world country but when you finnish you will be unable to find an i ternship aka residency, in the usa and not alot of doors are opened for unliscensed professional in the healthcare field. But it does only accept around 95 students per year! In my opinion, if you cant succeed at SGU, then you would absolutely never succeed at a US medical school. But, ALL of the material for Step 1 and 2 is available to you outside of class. They turn the heat up in term 2/3/4 and have a system of questions and statistics for each question they put on their tests so that they fall within the number of students they need to remain to hit their margins. If youve got a spare six figures or have family that funds your education, this part doesnt play into the equation. In the end, its a numbers game. 7 Do you get federal loans for Saba University? Not just reading itbut learning it well enough so if anyone asked you a question about any concept within the book, you could easily answer? Four hundred people (half the class) got an A on the hardest exam in school. In Canada, where access to medical schools and residencies thereafter is extremely competitive, Saba has earned a strong reputation through large numbers of placements in the Canadian Residency Matching System, or CaRMS. All of that work for someone to tell you to just quit. I then went into a depression and felt numb. Financially, I did not have resources to finish in 4 years. We also have a grocery store on campus. This is the school I go to and will likely graduate with a degree from. That means roughly 60% of the students were rejected. I found out for me I did not want it bad enough although I hate to admit that because my sister did it. I had a 4.0 GPA for both my Psychology degrees and it was still hard to get into a good medical school. sticker every few months, and got a new one. (for the record, I know 5 people who repeated a term) As an aside about the housing, if you are thinking about attending SGU, then dont live on campus. Never set yourself up for failure. What you dont know is, in graduate school, you need an 80% to keep going, so a 70 should be a walk in the park, if not, you are just not cut out for medical school. If thats the case, then the USMLEs are not hard enough and should be re-examined for their difficulty and effectiveness for being used as a gauge to grant would-be Doctors advancement toward becoming licensed to practice. Like a runner, you should know which race is better for you; and if you know races; none of them a walk; a great runner gives it all and it could be painful and make it hard to breath for a bit, but you recover. Programs like St. Georges University can be equally as expensive, with a price of $62,000 per year in just educational fees. Biology: one-year general biology or zoology with a lab component. Check-in starts at 9.30 a.m. for the optional Admissions Deans' Panel and at 12.30 p.m. for the main Medical School Fair. To answer your question, the new curriculum change was adapted only 2 years or 4 semesters ago so major changes are still happening. Take a look at the staff of a couple of dozen medical groups and youll find that there are many graduates of Caribbean medical schools. I was just wondering how the past year has been for you at AUA. Keep it up! You cant take STEP 1 until youve passed it and you get three chances to pass it. First of all, the school accepts way more than they can handle. Most of the struggle comes from the first year when you are finding out your learning style and finding what resources work for you. 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