Tipton: You have not answered any of the questions I asked you.
As for your present post, I have another question which I would prefer you to answer them on this forum, so the over 300 odd students of KMCIC and their parents can know of this issue better.Plus it will help 1000's more who would like to know more about KMCIC.
As for your mentioning, that AUA and KMC simply decided one fine morning to form a twinning program aka KMCIC......Does it have ECFMG's sanction?
Because if it does not, then the KMCIC program has no legal basis.
A 'twinning' program just cannot be formed just because you want to form them, but needs ECFMG certification.
And as Tipton did not answer the questions I raised in my previous posts about 'transcript swapping'...I am raising them again....
Do KMCIC students when they register with ECFMG ,
(a) Use KMCIC transcripts?
(b) Use AUA transcripts in lieu of their KMCIC transcripts?
(c) Do they let ECFMG know that though they are using AUA transcripts, they never went to AUA, but went to its 'twin' school, the KMCIC**, thousands of miles away in India?
**KMCIC is not KMC; KMCIC is not IMED listed;It has a different curricullum than AUA and KMC;
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Originally Posted by Tipton
As has already been mentioned in this thread, this is a moot discussion. AUA and KMC created a "twinning" relationship which resulted in KMCIC. Two Medical schools whose IMED and WHO listing is not in question, created a sister-school relationship (thus twinning program): Kasturba Medical College International Center (KMCIC).
I know I have written this about 100 times here already. But let's try once again. KMCIC students become AUA students when they return to the US. Whether you would like to call this a transfer of credit or simply transitioning from Basic Sciences to Clinicals, that is what happens.
KMCIC does not need MCI listing (the original topic opf this thread).
Let me clarify something in regards to what "transfer"ing from one school to another means. Every university or university system decides how they will or will not accept credit when a student applies for "transfer". The student is reviewed first for Admission/Acceptance into the school and second for Placement into the curriculum. In this case (KMCIC to AUA), the review is only for Placement since KMCIC students are already accepted into AUA's "twin"/sister school in Manipal. Just as AUA students have the ability to "transfer" from Antigua to Manipal without having to seek Acceptance into KMCIC but rather simply Placement. KMCIC students do not seek Acceptance into AUA (whether from Manipal to Antigua or Manipal to 5th Semester, Miami).
I do not know how to address confused analogies between AUA/KMCIC and St. Chris or any other school. I don't know enough about how St. Chris was established, whether under the auspices of a UK school and its home institution or simply as a satellite. KMCIC is not simply a satellite of AUA. But rather a "twin" of AUA established under the auspices of one of the most prestigious Medical Schools in the world: Kasturba Medical College.
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