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azskeptic
02-05-2005, 11:09 AM
http://medintro.org/

Your dream of earning a medical degree is now just a click away.
Attending medical school is now possible with minimum disruption to
your profession, your home, and your life.

Becker College in Worcester, Mass, and Harcum College in Bryn Mawr,
PA, are offering an "Introduction to Medicine" course—your first step
towards medical school.

Students in the "Introduction to Medicine" course fly or drive in
every other weekend to take the coursework on campus. Weekday
residential programs also are available.

After successfully completing the "Introduction to Medicine" course,
you may enter the world's first Distance Learning Medical School,
where you can complete your pre-clinical studies on-line with
supervision from a physician mentor in your community.

Oceania University of Medicine is recognized by the World Health
Organization and the Education Commission for Foreign Medical
Graduates, the prerequisites to practice in the United States.

The Program
The weekend fly-in/drive-in program for working healthcare
professionals begins every other Friday morning and runs all day
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Students typically arrive on campus
Thursday night and leave on Sunday evening.

Because the intensive weekend program is taught every other week, the
entire course is taught in eight sessions over 16 weeks. The weekend
off in between sessions gives students a chance to study, rest, and
attend to personal business.

Chiropractors, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants,
physical therapists, paramedics, and other healthcare professionals
find that this program suits their needs.

A weekday program, offered Monday through Friday, also is available to
all qualified students.

The Course
Students find themselves totally immersed in the study of medicine and
the treatment of disease.

Providing a comprehensive introduction to all human
systems—cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal,
musculoskeletal, neurological, reproductive, endocrine, immune, and
psychosocial—the course teaches students the mechanisms of
interconnection among these systems and how to use both basic
laboratory sciences and bedside medicine to begin the diagnosis and
treatment of patients.

Students use the case study approach to illustrate each topic,
focusing their work on web-based research and independent study
integrated with classroom lectures. Regular visits to hospital and
clinic settings are also part of the curriculum.

Costs
Tuition cost for the program is $6,000, which includes lab, library,
and all other instruction related fees.

Depending upon student needs, on-campus housing and meal service is available.

Becker College

Half of double room - $600

Single room - $900

Meal plan - $360

Harcum College

Room and meal plans will be announced shortly.

Financial aid is not available for the "Introduction to Medicine"
course. For those students who enroll in Oceania, student loans are
available to qualified US citizens. For information about that, click
here.

leadsled
02-09-2005, 07:32 PM
So when are you going to sign up azkeptic? :roll:

azskeptic
02-09-2005, 09:22 PM
So when are you going to sign up azkeptic? :roll:

Let's flip and loser signs up? ha ha...man, what are these people thinking?

azskeptic
02-09-2005, 09:27 PM
So when are you going to sign up azkeptic? :roll:

whoops, this article today says we shouldn't go...I'm confused...

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1299477.htm

Last Updated 09/02/2005, 22:23:41

The managers of a Samoan-based institution have dismissed accusations that medical degrees are being sold to Australians.

Australia's main opposition Labor Party says the Oceania University of Medicine (OUM) is selling online medical degrees to Australians for about US$100,000.

The opposition's education spokeswoman, Jenny Macklin, says the institution offers Australians a three year medical degree almost entirely online.

She say the OUM is a registered business in the southern state of Victoria, but it is not recognised as a university by the state government.

Ms Macklin says Australians do not want to be treated by doctors who have bought a medical degree off the internet.

But the institution says it has never purported to be an Australian university.

The OUM's international vice-chancellor of global operations, Surindar Cheema, says anyone applying for one of their degrees knows they will not be able to practice outside Samoa.

"It's absolutely clear, we tell all our students that we are a service provider to a university that is based in Samoa and that our degrees are a foreign medical degree."

"We also tell our students that they are unable to practice in Australia when they graduate," he said.