This post is the first in an attempt to unify the posts on the SPSOM/IMSA now JBGDL scenario and to shorten the reading for the newbie and yet edify them about what has become the prince of the scam sham offshore school.

JBGDL THE STOP AND START MEDICAL SCHOOL- ITS ORIGINS and DEJA VU

If you are new to this forum, it is to your advantage to read both this thread and the other entitled IMSA totally to ascertain the dishonesty of this school which has now again reappeared as JBGDL.

This should allow you to make an informed decision as to whether, having failed to run an offshore American type school they can transition to run a Mexican style Medical school, or any type of Medical school for that matter.

The recent resurgence of IMSA (International Medical School of America) as JBGDL is another clear example of the ever-evolving, ever-changing chameleon-like existence of this so-called medical school. Surely it is true that when an institution's program changes as often as the wind changes direction, one has to question the integrity and sincerity with which they speak when they say, "we're going to try again"?

This organization has tried several times in the pass to run a medical school and has failed miserably each time. Why should you, the prospective medical student think that it will succeed this time? Are these not the same persons that have failed to deliver an American type education, with American faculty, etc? Are these not the same persons that sent home the students to study last time


JBGDL (formerly SPSOM/IMSA inter alia) has been in its several advents been a roving medical school with many names and faces.

JBGDL originally came on the scene with another name a few years ago when its owners tried to open somewhere in the Big Bend region of Texas and Mexico. Then it popped up again in a border crossing called Colombia, in the state of Nuevo Leon. Then it popped up in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and finally it ended up in Cooks Islands and Guerrero, Tamaulipas as SPSOM/IMSA, last year where it ended as a back street abortion in less than l year!

If you study the links and treads below, you will see that the history of the FAILURE OF JBGDL HAS BEEN CONSISTENT! CONSISTENT & PERSISTENT FAILURE!
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/arch.../t-119668.html

http://valuemd.com/archive/index.php/t-17227.html


Prospective students, you must ask yourself, why did it not last on the initial occasions. You should ask yourself, why should it last this time. Let those who choose to be guinea pigs go through the three years before you risk your money there. In the interim, go to an established and genuine medical school.
Its last attempt was from May 2006 year until April 2007 when it reemerged as SPSOM in the Cooks islands and as IMSA in Mexico. At that time, the CEO of SPSOM/IMSA/JBGDL sought a charter from the Cook Islands after being rebuffed by all 11 Mexican medical schools he had approached looking for a partner. When he had failed 11 times, the Cook Islands gave him an ear.

JBGD, however did not really care about the Cooks Islands or of having a school there. Their interest was mainly in getting the charter from the Cooks so that a school could be convened in Mexico, the very place where the LLC that operated both SPSOM/IMSA sought to lure unsuspecting students.

It has been well documented on this forum that in the year of its operation that SPSOM failed to run like a real bona fide medical school. There were only FOUR students, who were forced to go there so that the school could start, for it is relatively expensive to fly to the Cooks, it is relatively expensive to live in the Cooks. It is relatively inconvenient to go to school there. It has been documented that the school only had TWO teachers at any given time, and that for the most part these teachers were teaching several areas that were out of their specialty. It has been documented that the school had a poor curriculum, and that despite meetings where students and their parents complained, there was no improvement. It has been documented that the school’s chief academic officer was incompetent and unapproachable. It has been documented that the school did not present a proper business plan to the Cooks except one with ridiculous information that was widely circulated on the Texas Border.
Both schools were under capitalized and understaffed, and the Chief Academic Officer was conspicuous by his arrogance and ignorance in being able to interpret the USMLE objectives. The Cook Island Government closed the school in Rarotonga, and the school in Mexico closed, as it had no charter to operate. Since there is no evidence that it has obtained either the necessary charter to operate or IMED listing, graduates of the school are not eligible to take the USMLE exams necessary for licensure in the USA.
JBGDL has still not grasped that you can not start a med school without a charter or listing in IMED.


JBGDL (formerly SPSOM/IMSA inter alia) started a school without proper numbers of tutors and in less than adequate facilities. They started a school without proper leadership or a busyness plan! They started a school without adequate capital, causing the top employees including the Dean to quit!

You must ask yourself also, the following questions.
What assurances do I have that they will do it correctly this time?
Have they got the requisite number of students to sustain a medical school?
Do they have the requisite number of tutors this time?
Have the facilities improved?
Are they still operating from a loaned solitary classroom?
Are they library books, cadavers, microscopes and other things normally seen at medical schools?
Has the faculty improved?
Last time one of the tutors did not know what to teach quantitatively or qualitatively?
Last time one of the tutors had been imprisoned for attempting to trade grades for amorous relationships, and was actually fired for doing the same at IMSA.
Are the staff members still only getting the chance to teach in their subject areas here and there, oft and on, and when and then because there is grossly inadequate staffing levels? Do folk who attend such a school really love to be subjected to such up and down treatment?

Last time they started the school before they actually had a charter and IMED listing.

This time they admit that they don’t actually have either a charter or IMED listing again as noted in their website on their welcome page thus………………. The school will be listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools and IMED.

The state of Tamaulipas is NOT a sovereign country and therefore CANNOT confer degrees to anyone in this world, or the next. The graduates of a school without IMED listing CANNOT take the USMLE exam that is required for the initial steps toward residency and licensure in the USA in this world, or the next.Why has JBGDL been hiding for four months behind a notice on the old website which stated that the website was under construction when they know that the school was operating and using a new website to capture students unwittingly?

Why this deception?
What is it that the owners of JBGDL has to hide?
Of what are they afraid?
What is it that they do not want the general public to know?

If JBGDL is student friendly, and wants to encourage all qualified applicants, including non-traditional students, to apply to the José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara School of Medicine, why has it been hiding its website from the VMD community. After all this website has for several years been, one of the acknowledged sites for obtaining information about offshore medical schools.


YOU MUST AVOID THIS SCHOOL AT ALL COSTS