I have heard from "a credible source" that the new building being put up are actually going to be lecture halls. I guess the chancellor wants to increase the class size so that the spring class / summer classes are the size of the fall classes (maybe bigger). I would assume this is a for-profit move like most of the other schools are doing (st. george and their 400 student fall class, and SABA's enrollment increase). I am worried that AUC is going to be considered a "Diploma Mill" and basically lose respect of U.S. residency programs....Also, make for a chaotic clinical situation... Well, after 7 years of every caribbean school handing out M.D.'s to everyone that wants one, prepare for some AMA fire....

Those rooms are WAY to small. Unless they are going to build up, but what is there right now are the size of an office.

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Yeah, I donno.... Maybe some new construction in the near future?

If SGU isn't considered a diploma mill with 400 (or what ever) students, why would AUC be any different?

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They are a "University" with a Vet school, business school, etc.... Anyways, I thought the St. George enrollment increase has been a recent phenomenon.... I heard they might increase the incoming class to 600 students with some clincial contract they signed in New York... They are required to fill so many spots... The biggest U.S. med schools have around 280 students...400-600 rolling admissions and mainly U.S. students can have a negative impact in the long run, expecially since there are not enough residency spots for everyone that want to go into certain subspecialties (AND US SCHOOLS INCREASING ENROLLMENT)... What do you get? A bunch of Americans way in debt that can't enter a residency because the spots are fixed and they're competing with thousands of other FMG's...

from what i've been told, those rooms are supposed to be ICM exam rooms.

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Those are definitely not lecture halls. The entire building new site is not large enough to be a lecture hall, but they've already got it broken down into small rooms. One of the professors said it is going to be office space and ICM rooms.

I wouldn't say any of the caribbean med school, at least not the big 3 or 4, are diploma mills. Just because you grant 1,000 degrees a semester does not mean you're a diploma mill. Everyone who gets the degree has earned it. They sat through the same classes (essentially) as US students, did the same required clinical rotations, and took the same licensure exams.

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Yeah, St. George isn't a "University of Phenoix," that was a bad way of putting it on my part... But, yeah, a huge Caribbean Med School population and a U.S. medical school enrollment expansion won't mix very well in the long run for reasons mentioned above...

but ross does equal devry!

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they've been saying it for years now... maybe they're finally doing what they said now

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