01-07-2008, 12:25 PM
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nothing has changed
Friends. IMSA has resurrected itself as JBGDL but nothing has changed. Now that it is known that they are operation again they have posted an ad in Chronicle of Higher Education once more. See http://chronicle.com/jobs/id.php?id=0000539820-01
Notice that they still have an absentio Dean, only this time he is farther away. Instead of being in San Antonio, now he is in Nevada.
Dr. S.......t C m MD PhD
Dean and Professor
JBGDL
Henderson, NV 89074
USA
Notice also that they are finding it so hard to get teachers that they are offering a salary of $80,000 to less than $90,000. That’s great. After all salaries at the offshore schools in the Caribbean can range from S12,000 or $18,000 in Aruba and St Lucia up to $48,000 to $60,000 at the best schools.
Seems JBGDL really desperate to get teachers. You would have thought that they would have got teachers BEFORE they restarted in September. You would have thought that they would have got staff BEFORE the start of a new semester. Nothing has changed friends. A leopard cant change its spots. And JBGDL is floundering again for lack of ideas and know not the way.
You would have though with all the tutoring they got last two years on VMD that they would have grasped BEFORE they restarted that you cannot run a medical school without teachers..
Prospective teachers or already duped teachers do note my post of February 16th 2007
http://www.valuemd.com/main-foreign-medical-schools-forum/119942-international-medical-school-america-2.html
Note there “that the school is registered in Texas means that you are hired under Texas law. However, you will in effect be working in Mexico. You will be working OUTSIDE OF THE US. Hence you will not be operating under TEXAS or US LAW. If they terminate you illegally with out proper cause; for example for racial discrimination, or any other reason, you have no recourse.
From the time you tell the lawyers you were working outside of the USA, they tell you, that you have no recourse; no legal rights. So you will then have to seek legal representation in Mexico. Just note that carefully!
Note also they will lure you to Texas (my wife and I got a trip to Rarotonga) and then when you ask about your contract, they will tell you there is no contract to tender, and that you have an “at will contract.” In other words, they can dismiss you at will!...... and they will!
I must also warn you about an issue not mentioned in the ad. You will have to fill out a form every weekend to tell him what you do with every 24 hours of your day.
Magistri, caveat emptor.
Do you really believe that a school with poor management and only a few students can pay you a salary of $80,000 to $90,000 when the best offshore schools can only offer $48,000 to $60,000 at the best schools?
For how long can they do this? In my case they paid me less than that for five months before the money ran out as documented by posts by Prausnitz, former top officers in the school then.
How do you know they have the money now? If the investors were bawling at the end of 2006 that they were not recieving the return on thier investment do you think they are recieving anything now? Do you think they are investing more money because the school restarted with a new name but following the same old ways?
When one considers that there are schools that have the break even enrollment number with a full staff complement at half the wages above, and these schools are struggling........... why do you believe that JBGDL can pay these wages for any length of time with far, far less than the break even number of students enrolled?JUST THINK ABOUT IT! DO THE MATH!
Who will go to the guano school on the basis of one of those “at will” contracts when they can and will fire you at will? Will you foolishly uproot and move your family to the Texas border as I did, and then get fired because less than stellar students complain about material that you are not given enough time to present?
You wont get the time to present the subject matter in 20 hours per week.
The students don’t know how to read the material and what to grasp therefrom on their own.
Who do you think will be blamed when they fail any shelf exams that you give?
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Last edited by lswiltshire : 01-07-2008 at 04:26 PM.
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