You are entitiled to your own narrow views and so called expert interpretations of state medical board laws. Yes, there are states that will not license graduates from IUHS or OUM like CA, IN, OR and those that rely on the CA approved list. This applies to all apart from the so called top 4 Carib schools.
There are more than 35 states that will license IUHS and OUM graduates. I know because I checked with all 50 state medical boards personally with very specific questions about online basic sciences.
Before posting, check with all 50 states rather than misleading people who read these forums. This mode of education is here to stay, like it or not. Eventually many US and other universities around the world will slowly be forced to look into this option due to budgetary constraints and staff shortages.
I love this line of yours:
"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."
Dude, this is America, just because someone complained that you went to a certain school does NOT and will NOT result in ANY action by any board or anyone else. If this was the case, someone who graduated from African school can complain about someone from Harvard because of jealousy and do you think the board will ban a Harvard grad. This just proves that you post here without any knowledge of any state or US laws and rights of every person in this country. The only time the board may take action is when there was serious error in judgement. Even if you get sued once, it doesnt mean your license will be taken away. There are rules and regulations in the USA that protect every individual, not just whoever sues someone. Please dont post ignorant statements, it just exposes you!
Professors these days would rather spend their time in research rather than teaching people like you and me in the class. The main reason most of them come to the classroom to teach is because it is in their contract, they are just forced to teach and very few are there out of passion for teaching. There are great many benefits for them in this type of education including cutting costs for the university and ultimately maybe to the student. Like it or not, it is here to stay.
Besides, US is not the only place in the world to live and practice medicine, plus the way it is looking today, it might lose whatever wealth its got left very fast. You may then see migration out of the US rather than to the US as it has often been happening in the past century. We are in 9 Trillion dollars debt!! I cannot even fathom a trillion dollars...just mind bogling amount of debt, which by the way people like you and I will be paying off in the future.
So those who are now paying huge amounts of tuition to SGU, etc...good luck in paying it off especially when you are bound to see increasing costs for everything else in the US while the insurance companies start paying doctors less and less. I wonder if medicine will even remain a financially viable education option in the distant future in the US especially when there are so many other ways to earn more than doctors with less debt and stress!
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Originally Posted by AUCMD2006
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
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