There's an attorney in my class, but I don't think he visits here.

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AUC 5th Semester!!

you need the password for this pacer thing to read more about it

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so i just subscribed to the pacer thing to find out about the case and here is the main thing:
From the summary of action:
The American University of the Caribbean paid some $3.5 million in advance to reserve a number of two-year clinical clerkship slots for its medical students at two New York hospitals, through the end of 2009. Now, a year into the program, the hospitals have given notice that they intend to wrongfully repudiate the contract. Some 29 AUC students in the program are going to be evicted in mid-year on March 3, 2008, with disastrous consequences to the students and to AUC. Those clerkship slots which, AUC understands, are to be offered to another institution, cannot be replaced by AUC for many months, if at all. AUC and a number of the affected students, who are third-party beneficiaries of the contract with the hospitals, seek preliminary injunctive relief to avert the irreparable harm that will result if the hospitals do as they threaten, and to maintain the status quo until the mater may be heard on the merits and a decree of the specific performance of the contract entered.

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Further down in the abstract it also states that many of those students will be put behind and not able to finish clerkships in time to make their match and basically be put off a year. This will trigger re-payment for those on student loans

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Very interesting... I hope AUC has learned a valuble lesson in dealing with five and dime hospitals in NYC. I hope the current students aren´t evicted out of their rotations.

I also hope that AUC is quick to find some resplacement slots at alternative sites instead of resting its hopes on wining this lawsuit.

From looking at the Ross situation, you can see that once a backlog occurs with rotations, it will take a long time to straighten out.

The only way for that to happen is for AUC to stop looking at NYC and look to other parts of the country. I highly doubt places like AZ, WY, ND, SD, MN, NV or even ME have been looked at and contacted with enthusiasm.

AUC will really need to start doing this, and soon, otherwise, we will have another Ross situation on our hands.

good job getting that pacer subscription

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that would seem to be prudent. i dont know what the big deal is with ny, except that there are a ton of teaching hospitals there.

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