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Originally Posted by Carmen
You are right Max. My hope has always been that those who are thinking of entering IUHS might change their mind when they see what other's experience has been.
Do your or anyone else know if IUHS is the only internet school? I went to the UHSA website, but couldn't determine if they offered on-line learning. There was a school in Australia offering on-line education, but if my memory serves me right, there was some type of problem.
Please let me know if anyone knows of other on-line schools. If there is, perhaps we can see how their students have fared in the licensing issue.
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The school is based out of Samoa and used the medical school curriculum from the University of melbourne. An entrepreneurial physician bought the curriculum and course content from the University of Melbourne and immediately set up a medical education computer company to translate the course contents onto a learning management system. He then had to find a friendly place to set up his medical school. Obviously the medical school needed accreditation and the Samoan government gave him legitimacy. How is Oceania better than IUHS?
The curriculum is based on the University of Melbourne Medical School program, which has been accredited in Australia. However this does NOT mean that the Oceania University of Medicine program is accredited by the Australian authorities. Thus legitimacy is questionable.
There is a residential pre-med preparatory program held at one of two colleges to ensure all students are up to snuff and start the program on equal footing. This is a good way to ensure that students are ready for the progam and have an appropriate level of preparatory education.
Problems: There is no residential component to ensure students have proper training in the clinical skills and are on the "same page". Also, having clinical or physician preceptors does NOT ensure that students are receiving the appropriate and complete clinical skill training required for clerkships.
There are also no procedures in place to ensure proper testing or examing of students at regular intervals, i.e. the end of block exams. There should be a contract with a company like Prometric to ensure exams are administered and graded independently in an environment that is supervised to not allow cheating or corruption of the exam. This increases the validity and respectability of the examination process.
Food for thought!
Cheers, A_G
