Doogie,

I believe that you must done some research, but I think that you failed to understand some very important basic issues. First, 3500 to 4000 dollars per semester is a very reasonable tuition rate for Medical School - compare that to the 10 thousand dollar plus rate for Ross, the 6 thousand plus rate for many of the other schools in the caribbean. This is not an unreasonable amount by any means. Secondly, you have posted the complaint regarding the testing amounts for the IUHS examinations. Again, I think that this should in fact be lauded - this is a way for a school to ensure the validity of their testing methods, and the results that students achieve. It is fair for all other students when being compared to each other to know that everyone played on a level field, and the results mean something. Paying 100 dollars per semester for testing is again, not unreasonable - it is much less than having the school arrange the examinations through Prometric, for example.

I don't know anything about the London Medical College per se, but I went to their website as well. What I got out of the website is that they are a "satellite campus," in that the studentst that study there receive their degrees from IUHS, not from LMC. I believe that information is posted right on their website. I don't think that there is anything not openly revealed there - it appears that both IUHS and LMC are being very straight forward with their disclosurese of the relationships between the schools.

As for the work of medical school and the difficulty of maintaining a full time job - medical school is difficult. You have to put in the time and effort to learn. You have to read, read, and read some more. I don't understand why anyone would complain about receiving "volumes," of supplementary study material from a school - that is what every student wants. It is better to have concise, thorough material than having to read large textbooks for each class. At least that is my opinion.

Again, everyone has to make the decisions regarding their school choices themselves. But the problems that you communicate in your post do not seem to be very severe, or even warrant much complaining.