Definitely a great new opportunity. The hospital you are talking about was the former Hospital Regional de Caguas, like almost all public hospitals in P.R. they have poor infrastructure, if you visit the 78 municipalities of the Island, Oh my G-d, you will cry. The school bought it when the government made a health care reform, that turned out bad. The school seized the opportunity to own their own hospital. Hospital Regional de Carolina is another of these bad looking hospitals. They used to call it "el matadero".
By the way, I do know one doc that around 5 or six years ago graduated from there and is practicing in the US, he took his NMBE , passed them and did residency in Boston. No problems for him, it took some legwork but it was not impossible to get licensed when it was in the limbo of not being LCME.
I do not believe the accreditation is retroactive, I don't see how it could happen legally speaking. Up to the LCME head honcho's I guess. For those already enrolled it is great news as well as for those who were admitted for the next class.
Max
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Originally Posted by AUCMD2006
i have no issue with them getting lcme, the more the better! i just said from the looks of it the school/hospital didn't look like it had any money invested in infrastructure since its foundation because the carpet and walls looked like they were bought from a brady bunch garage sale. and trust me being from miami, chicago, and detroit i have seen my share of run down hospitals...oh i can throw bakersfield kern medical center on that list and actually that is what it looked like..kern
as for accreditation what i read was that they had been reviewed for it and did not receive it, i assumed it was a review of accreditation it had already gotten and not a new application that was my mistake for assuming it had lost it. i think someone pointed that out a few years ago also but now it will stick to memory
and i agree 10000000% that it is a better option than any carib school now but not 4 monhs, 10 months, 5 years ago because there was no guarantee that it would get lcme accred. trust me i would go there in a heartbeat over sgu, auc, ross, saba as of today but not back in 2003 when i started because all that coursework would have been null and void for licensure in the US unless they made the accreditation retroactive and imagine they would only make it retroactive to the application date and not to 1978 when the school started correct?
either way this is an outsanding opportunity for those students that can enroll there, man i would have liked to live in PR for a few years maybe get to see some of my wife's family |