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AUCMD2006 · #61 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 03:08 PM

beating a dead horse-just wann say good luck to those of you doing the distance learning on actually getting a full unrestriced license when you are likely limiting your work area by 48 states or so and those that have the loophole in there may not be around for long. i did the residency permit last year..big deal two forms. i just started the full licensure process for a state and the things they check and the things they request, the things they look for i just goltta say good luck is all i can muster up.

and why come on here and "put down another school" its not putting down its educating and letting new students know that as of today going anywhere but traditional med schools will severely cripple their future employabiolity, marketability, ability to work where they want, and possibly outright prevent them from ever working as a doctor..call it "putting down" if you wish but it really isn't.

for the ER NP-i think distance learning is the wave of the future but the way its set up through that school is entertaining,...you have your buddy as a mentor, how do you take exams? who grades them? in the end it doesn't matter because we all take the usmle exams..who knows it may work out for you just be real weary of applying for a license because all these burocrats will tell you that its case by case, you can petition to have your case looked at and whatever they want but you will be denied in the majority of states you apply for a full unrestriced license(not resident permit) and once you are denied by one state you have to list that on each and every application you file

so best advice is to look for one of the 2 or 3 states that has a fully licensed doc from this place and pray the board doesn't look into it or some "consumer" because that is what we call patients now, doesn't file a complaint saying that this doc went to an internet medical school offshore because that is all it will take. until distance learning is the standtrd and the norm in the states it makes no sense to gamble on it from an offshore school right now..brown, stanford etc can do whatever they please, they are inder the unbrella of the LCME..we are under a banana leaf with people just waiting to jump on our education the last thing caribbean "education" needs are "innovative" curricula with learn as you earn programs to further mock and dilute the perception of us

i know it sounds harsh but please download or request applications for full licensure from the states and see the stuff they actually ask for....not the politically correct response you get giving hope when there rarely some

good luck