Anyone know about CAHSU ?

[Tarzan]

Does anyone know about Belize Medical College known as CAHSU ?

[Bob]

Recommend you look elsewhere. Owned by same group as Spartan. Bob

[modavi2]

Hey bro, all I can say is that cahsu is just there to take your money and provide nothing interms of quality education. Let me ask u dis except for one person who is the school stool pigeon on this form has anyone ever said anything good about this school.I am noy the only one knocking this place they are soo half hazard I cannot being to tell u DO NOT WASTE you time.

Yes it is absolutely true that CAHSU is the groups as SPARTAN as Bob mentionned but sicne Spartan got discredited, they upstarted CAHSU.
CASHu bites.

[strongdoc]

Dudes on these boards know everything, lol :lol: Silly, Experts on foreign med schools they havent even been to. Why dont you clowns tell me about African med schs :lol:

[Genossa maximillian]

a medical school disguised as a nursing school out of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.Many of their sudents rotate at different sites in Ciudad Juarez.

[modavi2]

Wow, you seem to know a lot about CAHSU , yes their Belize Campus is nice only because they rent out a nice "front" on DATAPRO compund ( datapro=a Belize software company with some nice real estate) which really makes the school look attractive to fooling a visitor doing homework to think this is a quality school !!!

Buyer beware , their Juarez campus (the dump) is run out of a one room shack. (Yes they hide in a nursing school . No I am not joking about it being a shack. Even the floor ceramic is broken in many places. Anyhow the only thing I can offer is that you should study on your own as much as u can.

In clinicals we are having isuues in some states Georgia we have almost abandonned because of contract (read: money problems) with the Atlanta
sties so its Juarez then Illinois, Conn, and we shall have to see next.


PS : for strongdoc.
Strongdoc, I notice u seem to mock at me, when the only intelligent conversation you have put up revolves around hot chicks in medical school.
There are a little more important things.

[dont go to SMU]

thank u guys for the info they wer almost fooling me.... but they r the only uni i found accept the tranfere student internationally.... if u guys know other uni pleas tell me about them????

[wcb22]

in case you haven't heard, DATAPRO went out of business. so that front building you've seen when you enter the complex IS owned by CAHSU. their logo is on that building now too, and they've aquired another one or two as well (they have 3 or 4 total now). they are attempting to set up a residency program in the adjacent building to our school (with karl huessner hospital). this would be especially good for texas licensure, as they like to see that a school is established enough to see the hospital/residency affiliation.

do i get anything from this school for saying anything good about it? NO. have i talked trash about my frustrations in being here... yes. but i do believe that they are headed in the right direction. why do i want to believe in this school... because my future depends on it's success. because i'd like to take some pride in where i went. people who graduated from st. georges university back in 1982, 1983, 1985, probably didn't have the most wonderful things to say about it. they do now. how do people feel about kigezi right now? not so great. i've had great teachers here, okay teachers, and terrible teachers. where is that not true?

am i saying to those students who are scrutinizing this school that all is well? no, and i'm not saying to come here either. it was the right choice for our family. if it was completely up to me, we would have been at saba. but regardless of where i am, i will make 90+ on the boards, and have options when i graduate.

i think the most frustrated people are the ones who were expecting to be spoon fed, and know all they would need to know from lecture, and found out that minimal individual effort would mean failing the boards.

[dungmonitor]

Central America Health Sciences University (CAHSU), Belize Medical College, Belize.



I am a current student studying at CAHSU. I took transfer from one of the Caribbean school. I visited most of all the Caribbean medical schools, I will say only few have high academic standard. CAHSU has excelled in academics and other facilities. I am happy with how the university is going and the vision and future plans of the dean.

Before my acceptance to CAHSU, I talked to the Dean, the admission officer & I personally visited their campus in Belize.

All I can say is wow, it’s excellent. I never heard the name of CAHSU on valuemd or any other forums so often so I was a bit worried to attend this school. But after seeing the school personally I was surprised with the facilities, academics, and the student population. A student population of 90 in basic science.



The campus

Its very big campus, with 3 hexagonal buildings and a new one coming up. It will occupy the auditorium, more labs and a gymnasium.

They have a swimming pool, Football ground & a basketball court on campus. The campus is full of gardens and greenery around. It's a proper campus and not like other caribbean school which are running in small buildings or shopping complexes.



Facilities

All classrooms are fully equipped with audio-visual aids, comfortable desks and chairs etc.

Micro and histology lab. Anatomy lab with cadavers, Bones sets etc.

The Library is huge with thousands of books and journals and a computer access room. The library is one of the best which I have not seen in most other Caribbean medical schools. A student lounge with pool table, TT table etc.

Wireless internet network in the campus.



Faculty

When I visited the university, I sat in few classes. Some of the faculty members are excellent and others ok not so bad with every other school the same thing.

All the faculty members are MDs and they don’t teach multiple subjects. Every subject has a lecturer. Overall they are great lecturers.

They are very helpful and available all the time.



Curriculum

Different from other Caribbean school, in a way it’s good. As you study system wise. You study Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Radiology in basic sciences. So when you go for clinical everything is repeated and in a way it’s the best. From 3rd trimester onwards we go to hospital rounds & whatever is taught in class, the practical part is done in hospital. So you get to see many patients in basic sciences.

Kaplan USMLE step1 training in 5th trimester.

Clinical rotations are of 88 weeks duration.



Housing

The university arranges housing for students which is few miles away from the campus in a housing society. It’s secured and fully protected by round the clock security.

An apartment comes with fully furnished 2-3 bedrooms, a hall, Kitchen and toilets. Rooms are furnished with T.V, Refrigerator, washing machine etc.

Free transportation is provided by the university from housing to campus, for shopping and sightseeing or student tours.



Why should you come to CAHSU? Positive aspects.

With more than 30 graduates as licensed physicians in USA.

Around 60 graduates currently in residency programs in various states in USA in competitive fields like surgery, neurology etc.

As many as 150 students in clinical rotations in USA & UK.

Guaranteed clinical rotations in USA. With clinical rotations set up in 11 states in USA at around 30 ACGME (Green Book) Hospitals. Rotations are also available in UK,Belize,Mexico & India.

Financial aid, Loans and Scholarships available to eligible to students.

USMLE pass rate of > 85%.

Solid curriculum and facilities. State of art infrastructure.



Admission

Please contact the admission department in USA or Belize directly.

Their website is under construction; new website will be up soon.

They accept transfer students from other school, after carefully evaluating the transcripts and credits.



If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to PM me. I will try to dissipate most of the heat and other rumors.

[dt]

Sigh, another one of those infomercials...

So, is it true that the owners of cahsu also own spartan? If so, if they cant get Spartan right after 20+ years, why shouldnt I think that you're hyping cahsu?

[modavi2]

I BELIEVE DT"S comments sum up everything (more or less verbatim comment)

If Spartan can't get it right after 20 + years what makes them think that CAHSU WILL GET IT RIGHT? THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE.

As well, I would like to respond to WCB22, she/he is tagging me as a whiner,
yet at the same time she says if she had to take back time, she would go to SABA, I do not understand if you have the ability to do good anywhere, why would you like to go to SABA?

All I have to say about CAHSU 01 , is if you cannot tell right away that this is a school crony,then you are dumb. Licensure in all 50 states , with caricomm is a load of crap. I had a chat with Cali board, and they said that CAHSU01's comments were **.

As Miss Pat Parks (CALI board foreign liason) office stated, Cali board has their own criteria, their own inspection process nothing else matters and CAHSU has not engaged in that process.

AS well, yes datapro may or may have not been bought, but the point still remains the same about CAHSU /SPARTAN, and their workings.

[wcb22]

you are right on the California issue, the other person is not informed on the licensing procedure. even if we got california (long shot, we'd need researd facilities at CAHSU, and the only person we could hope would do any research would be dr. ilkov, as he was with the group that discovered mRNA a long time ago). look at SABA for example, they are now california approved, but not retroactive for people who started basic sciences before 2002, or 2001, can't remember. we wouldn't be able to get CA license approval for at least 5-10 years, if we do well. so anyone even starting CAHSU right now hoping for that is delusioned or misinformed. sorry, but that's the way life is.

and as i said before, i'm here because it was best for the family. i don't care to practice in CA; i've called all 5 states licensing boards that i'm interested in, and talked to them about being able to practice there, and they are okay with CAHSU.

[p_in_da_wind]

do you know if this school is approved in TX?
What other states can their students NOT practice?

[wcb22]

can't practice in CA, TX, NM uses CA's list, but they might atleast budge (CA will not budge), KS will be okay by 2011 (school has to be around for 15 years).

[p_in_da_wind]

I heard that there is a student doing his/her resid. in TX at this time...Is that true?

so if this student can get his/her resid. in TX why can't future students?
Personally, i am interested in TX but if TX dont allow me to practice there, i'll just go to another state...

[Chemist_11]

lol, talk about spartan owning CAHSU, i think by his post, that cahsu01 owns CAHSU :D

[clevelandkrish]

I am still checking around and am interetsed in Belize Med schools. I am reducing it down to CAHSU and MUA-B. Saint Lukes is out and AGU is out. (Does anything have anything positive to say about St Lukes and AGU???).

[littlecueritos]

Yeap its pathetic!!! Yes you are pathetic but the dean sure had a fine secretary. It really is a nursing school, there is no signs outside. I think its a rip off. Most if not all of the students just like it because they meet people and because of the student laons, thats all.

[KVarner]

Maybe some students like it because it works out for them, and they can graduate, get residencies and become licensed physicians.

You can say all you want about a school being crap, or flaky, or whatever, but the bottom line is that students go to a school because it works for them. Maybe admissions criterion, maybe location, maybe cost, who knows...

So whats the big deal if they have classrooms here, or there, or wherever. They turn out licensed doctors.

[parvas24]

It is a a big scam ... I lived in Belize for 7 years .... nobody even in BELIZE know much about BELIZE MEDICAL COLLEGE [ no reputation ] ... also renting some buildings is not gonna make a doctor out of you ... you need a reputed medical school , rigourous curriculum , standards that would make you a doctor , give you the license to practice in the country where you studied [ BELIZE MEDICAL COUNCIL DOES NOT RECOGNISE THESE COLLEGES FOR REGISTARTION . PERIOD ] , just giving unsuspecting students from USA and Canada the hope that they would be able to sit for USMLE exams would not make them doctors ... first let the medical school there get license , get itself a hospital on it's own that treats patients and also teach students there ...
I am currently fully licensed to practise in BELIZE nad have been working with the Government all these years ... Please look for some good med schools to get into ... UNVERSITY OF WEST INDIES - JAMAICA is excellent also you get UK license when you garduate .. no need to sit for PLAB exams there ... Tell me if any BELIZE MEDICAL COLLEGE graduate has ever taken the PLAB test in UK and passed it ... I bet none yet ... I wounder if they are even eligible to sit that exam ....
Please make your choice carefully before you get into a med school in Caribbean ... in case you have doubts take your time and visit MED schools in UK , Western Europe ,INDIA , Australia , NEW ZEALAND , Ireland , Jamaica - UWI , South Africa... the benefits are great , the effort is worth it , you could easily sit for the USMLE back in USA if that is your aim and clear the exams without any trouble , also the excellent med schools I just mentioned would always be worth anytime during your med career

[wcb22]

fyi, the USMLE is harder than the PLAB, and i passed it, beating the US med school average, and i went to this school.

i don't know about any students who are from england, so that might be the reason, not that we aren't able to pass it. and so far everyone i know from my class has passed step 1.

[Jakajaka25]

CAHSU graduates can sit for the plab. I have personally met a graduate from CAHSU who is currently an SHO ( Senior House Officer ) at one of the university teaching hospitals in the UK. Shes finishing her stint as an SHO and will be an SpR come summer. I was a medical student under her team for a while so i know, not that i was told.

[syrus021]

I didn’t want to write anything since I don’t care if anyone likes CAHSU or not (since I don’t own it) but I can’t also close my eyes on some ** that I’m hearing in this forum from ppl who haven’t even been a student in CAHSU. Well here I go..I'm a 6th semester CAHSU student and I’m happy with my school. I don't care who owned this school or the buildings. My expectations are as high as the money that I pay per semester which is not much. I’m sure if CAHSU would have had charged + $10000 like other schools do, they would have better buildings (still, much better then other schools in Caribbean) 2. be WHO and ECFMG recognized 3. chance to become a doctor and take my steps 4. Been around at least for 10 years...what ever I didn’t learn from any bad or good teacher, ill take a kaplan review and take care of it (like any other students in other schools)...another thing i like about CAHSU is being able to live in TX ( students 3rd semester and up) and do my classes/clinical in Juarez which is 5 min drive from my apartment in El Paso, TX. I know I would be sick of life if I was living in any island for 2 years no matter how good the island is. Other then that, only other thing I can say is most CAHSU students are passing their steps with +80…not much thanks to school’s teachers but their system which allows you to do your clinical before taking your step 1 which gives you a lot of peace of mind and time to study your own for almost as long as you want to score high in your steps and unfortunatly, thats all it matters as far as getting residency. Also, CAHSU is not a Caribbean school, it’s a foreign med school located in small country called Belize…so I guess that’s why they can do that and others can’t…in fact I don’t know of any other school that lets you do your clinical before taking your steps which sound like a very big scam to me! In the end, Belize is a 3rd world country, not a tourist island where every day living items are 3 times the price, so don’t expect dolphins play with you while your scuba diving ( you could still do that since san pedro is 20 min away from school) but if you are serious about being a doctor, who owns what shouldn’t matter.

[wcb22]

the school has it's faults. i have been frustrated with them on many occasions. many people have been upset with their lack of involvement with our clinical rotations. man, i wouldn't have it any other way. i've set up almost all my own rotations, and they've been incredible. i've been to 4 different states by now, and i've been at some amazing institutions (NIH was the best, i got to know a lot of people from johns hopkins, and even got a letter of recommendation from one of them). now i'm in texas. and the best part is... no gaps in my training. no lost 2 weeks here, or 4 weeks there, just straight through. i love it. i'll graduate in 3 years, 4 months, 10 semesters, and no time lost. i have 4 letters of recommendation (though i did do some rotations in mexico, which i didn't mind because i speak spanish) from docs in the US, 2 from program directors, i beat the US med school average on all my boards, and i'm almost done. the school could do better about getting your loan money to you on time. that was frustrating. but at least we still have TERI, a lot of schools have lost it. i'm very grateful about that one thing. i'm still worried for the upcoming students, because i've paid up all semesters now. so i hope students behind me still have TERI in the future.

[Here to help]

Hey guys.. lots of hate on this site..its a big deal going to medical school and picking the rite one. Im currently a student at CAHSU.. Tell you the truth its not all that bad.. A few of my friends and I have taken full advantage of what the school has to offer. Medicine is self taught in my opinion and if your ready for that you just need a ticket to the USMLE. which we got.. None of the carb schools are any good.. but the all give you a chance..we chose to go to cahsu.. its up to.. as far as the teacher had some reallly good one in CAHSU got lucky.. great prof from the UK (uni of kent..), Mayo Clininc, Couple of docs from NY.. So it wasent all that bad.. The US rotations offered are deff the best from most carribean schools.. As long as you do your work pass step 1 you'll be offered some great rotations .. we have rot at st vincents hospital in CT affilated with YALE uni, UCONN there #17 in cardiac outcomes in the US... Great surgery rot at soundshore afflited group assosiated with westchester medical center, got a couple rot in floridia my opino sucked but still US peds is good with a doc from univ of miami associated with miami's children (guys on TV on the shaq show wth the fat kids lol did endoscopys with him.. pretty cool).. only the 5th pathway guys rotate threw these we have them.. over all no complaints about rot. they are hard to get you have to do your work get threw step 1.. its all about becoming a doc stop bad mouthing each other and help make good physicans. if anyone needs any honest advice email me .. post and i'll try to reply ... Good luck to you all dont read most of this crap.. yo MONDAVI (the on the forum) change your name dude your the one that flunked out prob never studied stop messing it up for the people who want to try.. Im an example along with my friends that cahsu can help you become a doctor.. not there yet but god will will be there very soon.. once again good luck to you all..

[Jakajaka25]

Ditto the last 3 posts. very well said.

[medical17]

Many of their students transferred to American Global University School of Medicine which is also located in Belize . . . newer school that gives a great medical education with quality professors and administration.

[dt]

Many of their students transferred to American Global University School of Medicine which is also located in Belize . . . newer school that gives a great medical education with quality professors and administration.

I find that very hard to believe. So, prove it!


Otherwise the ** alarm just went off and does not look good for AGU.

[urgentcase]

Many of their students transferred to American Global University School of Medicine which is also located in Belize . . . newer school that gives a great medical education with quality professors and administration.

Can you PM me with some comments on AGU. I am serioulsy thinking of transfering there for 3rd year clinicals. Thanks.!!!

[Craiginder]

CASHU has good rotaions, if you can ever get the Registrar, Martha, to give you your letter. She seems to be on a perpetual vacation.

[cubmd]

I know two students that go to this school and they told me that they are doing core rotations in Miami. The only school that is approved for clinical rotations in Miami is SGU @ Miami’s Children and SMU that is approved for rotations in Orlando. I just want to say that if you school is not approved for rotations in Florida that can be a problem in residency and license times. I highly doubt that you can’t even do electives in Florida because Florida laws require an agreement between the institution and the school if the school is approved by the Commission for independent Educational or something like that.
…and the worse part is that the two students that I know are from Florida and want to come back to practice.
:shock: