The school is in Caguas not San Juan, some 35 kilometers from San Juan, on your way to Ponce. Traditionally facilities and infrastructure in P.R. are smaller and sub-par compared to mainland U.S., that is a fact. Even with its short commings P.R. produces excellent physicians from these schools, and this one is no exception.
Regardless of your argument, it is LCME approved, better option for those seeking licensing in all states, you will be a US grad, not an IMG, that is my point. Prior to that students could still sit for the NBME, as many did and are practicing in the U.S., I personally know some of them, great friends of mine. Do more research.
If you have an issue with them getting LCME tell the LCME, obviously they did their home work based on their expertise, which I assume, is better than ours. Where did you get the information that it lost it's LCME, it applied to have one, you can PM me to discuss the issue because I have known this school since 1978, when it was founded in Hato Rey, on top of an old supermarket, then moved to Bayamon, then to Caguas and it never had LCME. Quote me the year they had it, from when to when and when they lost it, document it please. They applied a number of years ago and did not get provisional accreditation because it was argued that Puerto Rico had too many medical schools already (Ponce, UPR and Bayamon did a good job lobbying against it), those are facts my estimate friend, not hearsay.
Concerning the students from the schools you mentioned, irrelevant, those were foreign schools on foreign soil. We are discussing a totally different case here, this is a school that has been in business probably before some people here were born. It was never a get-rich-quick scheme for the founders as the schools you mentioned, please, there is no comparison, not even close my friend.
San Juan Bautista was never a gamble, and I always recommended it as a viable alternative and always will.
Let me know.
Max
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Originally Posted by AUCMD2006
if the approval is in effect june 2007 wouldn;t you be in fact attending a non accredited school prior to that? or do they make it retro-active to when they lost lcme accreditation to begin with.
i actually visited the school while in PR when i was stranded there for a day along with university of PR and the place was a disaster, the hospital their students rotate at was about as bad as i have seen in the states...probably something close to the old cook county but about a tenth the size. i was skeptical that it would get lcme back and contrary to what you beleive you can't enroll in a school hoping it will be lcme accredited sometime in the future when it lost it a few years back anymore than you can safely enroll in a non cali school hoping that it will be done by the time you graduate
in the same sense those who enrolled in saba are vindicated and glad they took the chance...what about students at st chris, st luke, mcl, kigezi, imsa, global, oceania, etc...doesn't seem like the gamble is worth it most of the time eh? |