shockandawe
03-03-2005, 11:13 AM
My fellow Spartanites, first, it was "Suspect MD's", "MD's the easy way", "Banned MD's" and now on CNN's Lou Dobbs... :oops: All I can do is shake my head. After the Courant article, Spartan thought that they could just let it go, business as usual.. :cry:
When you cannot practice in a particular state, such as CA, because of where you went to school, because the state boards think that your school is a piece of crap, whether you want to be politically correct or not, you are banned from that state. CA, IN, VT and the list keeps growing and growing... What a shame.
Its getting to the point now, where it maybe too late to get out of this hole. Things have really spun out of control. I don't even think that firing ******* would be enough. They need a complete make-over.
The best option and maybe the only option now, will be for ********* to sell the school. Sell it while he can still get something for it. Sell it to someone or some group who is wiling to invest in the school and its students.
They must:
1- Sell the school
2- Raise the tution
3- Fire *******
4- Replace most of the faculty
5- Hire researchers and start a research requirement
6- Bring in enough cadavers to make, at least, a 5 to 1 ratio
7- Rebuttal the Courant, even sue them for many of the false and misleading statements.
8- Comply with all state licensure requirements
9- Apply for state to state approvals, starting with NY, FL, CA...
10- Hire a quality assurance expert.
11- Get all USA sites and drop all this Mexico **
12- Start a 5th semester USMLE review course with professional USMLE professors.
This list, my fellow Spartanites, is the bare minimum. And even with doing all of this, much of the damage might not be recovered... for you, who are current students, you have 3 options.
Option 1- Start a revolution. You need to unite, all of you, including the 3rd and 4th years. Tell them you won't pay. Do not pay one single penny, not one single person. In this modern world, with email, you can all communicate with each other. You have the power, after all, you are the consumers, you are the ones paying and working your hearts off, to graduate and receive a degree that means nothing is not what you are in medical school for...
Option 2- Start over, from the beginning, at another institution. You cannot just "transfer" because having transfer credits from Spartan will not be respected in any of the unapproved states and soon to be unapproved states. Thus you will have to start all over again. This, actually, might be the better option.
Or your last option, you can be like ******* and just stick your head in the sand and hope this whole thing will just blow by, but I can promise you that it won't just blow by... The times have changed. ******* doesn't care about you nor about your future nor about state to state licensure, he just cares about recruiting fresh students that are willing to pay his salary. He and his staff are in this process of leading to this schools demise. They are hoping for a long slow death, just until they get old enough to retire but I wouldn't give them more than 5 years, by then maybe we will be approved in two states Hawaii and Alaska... It is only going to get tougher and tougher. We need radical change. s&a
When you cannot practice in a particular state, such as CA, because of where you went to school, because the state boards think that your school is a piece of crap, whether you want to be politically correct or not, you are banned from that state. CA, IN, VT and the list keeps growing and growing... What a shame.
Its getting to the point now, where it maybe too late to get out of this hole. Things have really spun out of control. I don't even think that firing ******* would be enough. They need a complete make-over.
The best option and maybe the only option now, will be for ********* to sell the school. Sell it while he can still get something for it. Sell it to someone or some group who is wiling to invest in the school and its students.
They must:
1- Sell the school
2- Raise the tution
3- Fire *******
4- Replace most of the faculty
5- Hire researchers and start a research requirement
6- Bring in enough cadavers to make, at least, a 5 to 1 ratio
7- Rebuttal the Courant, even sue them for many of the false and misleading statements.
8- Comply with all state licensure requirements
9- Apply for state to state approvals, starting with NY, FL, CA...
10- Hire a quality assurance expert.
11- Get all USA sites and drop all this Mexico **
12- Start a 5th semester USMLE review course with professional USMLE professors.
This list, my fellow Spartanites, is the bare minimum. And even with doing all of this, much of the damage might not be recovered... for you, who are current students, you have 3 options.
Option 1- Start a revolution. You need to unite, all of you, including the 3rd and 4th years. Tell them you won't pay. Do not pay one single penny, not one single person. In this modern world, with email, you can all communicate with each other. You have the power, after all, you are the consumers, you are the ones paying and working your hearts off, to graduate and receive a degree that means nothing is not what you are in medical school for...
Option 2- Start over, from the beginning, at another institution. You cannot just "transfer" because having transfer credits from Spartan will not be respected in any of the unapproved states and soon to be unapproved states. Thus you will have to start all over again. This, actually, might be the better option.
Or your last option, you can be like ******* and just stick your head in the sand and hope this whole thing will just blow by, but I can promise you that it won't just blow by... The times have changed. ******* doesn't care about you nor about your future nor about state to state licensure, he just cares about recruiting fresh students that are willing to pay his salary. He and his staff are in this process of leading to this schools demise. They are hoping for a long slow death, just until they get old enough to retire but I wouldn't give them more than 5 years, by then maybe we will be approved in two states Hawaii and Alaska... It is only going to get tougher and tougher. We need radical change. s&a