Thank you. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who recognizes this.

Just as you have pointed out, there is no hard evidence to support the claim that doing basic science online is less effective than attending lectures on campus. In fact, I have evidence to support the fact that you can learn basic science online. My evidence is the students from my school who have taken and passed the USMLE. If anyone wants to discount this, then we must also discount the reliability of having such a test at all because there is no seperate test given to medical students based upon the school they attended. A person who studied at Harvard must take the same exam that a person at IUHS must take. If the person from IUHS passes the USMLE, then there is no credit to say that his/her education was ineffective. What's left is only the opinion of others who say it can't be done.

Though I cannot speak for IUHS or other schools that do have basic science online, I have choosen a medical school who has the same curriculum as a US medical school, is an accredited medical school in Ghana/Liberia, has clinicals rotations in the country which it is located, has hospital affliations in it's own country where students can do residency, has a main campus, has faculty who are qualified to teach medicine, Students who have passed the USMLE, students in residency and clinicals in the US and is listed with ECFMG, WHO and IMED. Yet, there is a double standard because none of this matters since the medical boards in the US can overlook how well you've done on the USMLE, the schools medical curriculum or it's accreditation in the country it is located and use excuses that the schools medical library isn't big enough. So this makes you ineligible for licensure. What a joke. And our government allows this to take place!

I'm sure that there will always be skeptics out there. But the only skepticsim that we really should be concerned about is the USMLE, the medical boards freedom to discriminate, and medical schools who fail to turn out compentent physicians.

Good luck