Vasquez & Good Dr Thanks for posting the info you have on IUHS.

Its very TRUE you will only be able to transfer from IUHS to another foreign medical school- like SJMS- which took IUHS student transfers in 2002 (let them deny it now but its all on the old Hanson Forum) .



The way the IUHS courses were/are structured makes it impossible to transfer credits/ There is nothing inherently wrong with problem-based learning. But PBL programs require MORE FACULTY THAN IUHS HAS EVER HAD. THIS WAS POINTED OUT BY GEORGIE ETAL SINCE 2002. At that time the distance program was run entirely by ONE TEACHER.



Re “This is not what you would see in North America” with respect to your statement “only a few foreign-trained doctors as professors” is VERY VERY PUERILE and betrays your bias and ignorance about medical training.



THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH FOREIGN TRAINED DOCTORS AS PROFESSORS sir! THERE IS MEDICINE OUTSIDE OF AMERICA AND VERY GOOD MEDICINE TOO.



And the shabby house with no lab, library is no worse than some other schools Ive visited.



However, it is TRUE that “Most of IUHS students fail the USMLE exams - some have taken it 3 or 4 times.” This is because THE USMLE OBJECTIVES CANNOT POSSIBLY BE COVERED IN THE ONLINE PROGRAM IN THE TIME ALLOTED.



Similarly the on campus program is devoted entirely to covering the CASE OF THE WEEK. Where as some will correctly opine that most medical students skip lectures and study on their own, AT IUHS THERE WAS DEFINITELY NO PROPER GUIDANCE EXHIBITED.



It certainly is a shame to see a school take advantage of students for so long.

I sincerely hope that the end is indeed near and that some individuals are indeed ready to launch war on IUHS and its parent company.

Current students ought indeed to transfer now before they lose anymore money. Your education is as useless as that from the recently closed St Lukes.



The fact that various licensing boards have pointed this out can be seen on the old forum, where it was posted since early October 2002.



I can understand that a decent honest person could have trouble “signing transcripts with education the students did not take and the idea that the transcripts do not say that the student did anything in distance education” but this has been going on since the inception of IUHS. If you will email me any email address that works for you I will send you the transcript template that was designed to fool ECFMG and attempt to equivocate the actual work done in the PBL cases, as if they were done as COURSE in the normal way. Eg ANATOMY PATH PHARM ETC



Georgie Porgie and friends pointed out between August 2002 and April 2003 that IUHS was indeed giving poor poor education, by unacceptable methods…………………



It is TRUE that even now its very difficult to get a transcript. I have friends who have related the horrors they experienced in such a quest.