Does AUC meet this standard?

[Skipper]

is officially recognized by the jurisdiction in which the medical school which conferred the degree is located.

That is a requirement by the IL state licensing board.

I was wondering because the school moved from Montserrat to St. Maarten does that affect the charter? Is the school chartered in two places? Or is Montserrat just part of St. Maarten and the move doesnt change anything?

The University's School of Medicine was chartered by the Government of Montserrat and approved by the Ministry of Education, and is similarly approved and recognized in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles.


Similarly approved? So I am lost. I am just trying to check up on things. I have been reading the St. Chris form and I dont want that mess to happen to me.

[AUCMD2006]

school moved due to a volcano blowing up, boards were notified as such during a temporary semester classes were held in belize i beleive. when they knew the volcano was not stable they built the school permanently in sxm and it has its own charter in the nethrland antilles. the montserrat charter i guess only applies to students who attended school there. we are governed by the netherland antilles charter so auc operates in country of charter for the full two years of basic science. my surgeon was an auc alum in illinois.

[teratos]

I am licensed and only went to the SXM campus. I would imagine the school holds charters in both places. Since the campus on Montserrat is buried under many feet of ash and rock, the montserrat charter isn't any good at the moment. G

[anencephalic]

Didn't they build that new university for christian Korean-Americans on the site of the old AUC Montserrat campus? It's called Atlanta Christian University Seoul-Central College of Medicine (ACU for short)? I am dead serious, too...

Aloha,

[teratos]

that is pretty funny. I thought the campus was buried. I guess not. G

[Skipper]

I was reading in the St Chris forum and someone posted that AUC and Ross lost their licensing ability in Texas, is this true? If so, why? Are more states going to follow?

[Faith]

The WHO official record of the school's charter is found at

http://www.who.int/hrh/documents/en/wdms_update.pdf
(official record is now SXM - look at both Montserrat and Netherlands Antilles)

Yes, there is a Korean med school on the island, but NOWHERE near the old campus (still a very dangerous area). I can still see AUC's old library from the northern edge of Plymouth, but I haven't seen the campus up close.
The Korean school has a grand total of 2 (yeah, that's TWO) students, which the inhabitants of M'rat say the never see. They are housed at Tropical Mansion Suites hotel. No one really knows much about what they do.

I think it is very important to realize though - anyone who went to AUC in Montserrat has to have their status verified by the Minister of Education and Health on Montserrat - their records are still housed there. They don't receive any monetary support for this, either.

The requirement for any foreign med school is the ability for the graduates of the school to be licensed in the country in which they are trained.

Faith

[Faith]

double post - oops

[toddmleleux]

so why does he auc diplomas say plymouth, monserrat instead of cupecoy, sint maarten???

just curious to why and how it affects licensure

[anencephalic]

I was reading in the St Chris forum and someone posted that AUC and Ross lost their licensing ability in Texas, is this true? If so, why? Are more states going to follow?

Sounds like sour grapes to me following the New Jersey fiasco that St. Chris is currently embroiled in...I'd really take what they say with a grain of salt. Again, if Texas (or any other state for that matter) is important to you, CONTACT THAT STATE'S MEDICAL LICENSING BOARD to get the information straight from the source.

Aloha,

[tRmedic21]

AUC now has a charter in both places. I would imagine you would want your diploma to say Sint Maarten, if that's where you went to school, so I don't know, you'd have to ask MEIO about that.

As for the question about TX licensure, that was typical SC **. They are trying to deflect attention away from their own school's problems, as usual. AUC has NOT lost licensure privileges in TX, according to direct communication with our legal counsel at MEIO. AUC grads have not been denied any licenses based on the 'new rules', which criteria AUC meets, only on old standards for FP and Neuro electives which students didn't do as they weren't at the time of their graduation required. New students who complete these electives are eligible for licensure in TX. Any questions, call up MEIO and ask them.

I believe the phrase 'making a mountain out of a molehill' was used in the communication, which tells you what they think of all this "Texas' sky is falling!" hoopla. lol