they have some but they are not Greenbook.

skipper

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PGY-1 Internal Medicine
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No, I cannot help you get a residency.

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If you fail at AUC, SGU, or Ross why not transfer to SMU, if you fail at SMU, why not try another SMU.

For someone who was rejected by AUC, Ross and SGU, would you still recommend IAU? Could you clarify what is meant by "IAU is not licensed in any state?" Overall, did you feel IAU prepped you adequately for step 1?

this most likely means it does not have any grads that have completed residency and have their full license in any state.


As of now, you will not be licensed in Cali, Kansas, NM, Texas, NY, and possibly Penn.

The rest is unknown until they have grads who try to be licensed.

skipper

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Formerly known as "AssyrianSkipper"

PGY-1 Internal Medicine
Goal, not to kill anyone during my first month of residency.

No, I cannot help you get a residency.

President and Dean of--
Skipper's Medical Univeristy of the Dutch West Indies--SMU-DWI
Apply Now.....Get an MD in 6 Weeks....

If you fail at AUC, SGU, or Ross why not transfer to SMU, if you fail at SMU, why not try another SMU.

I'm going to assume "siggy" represents situation? But either way, yes - even though I have completed the 2 years of basic science and successfully completed Step one, I made the choice to attempt transfer for a school with at least one state approval and greenbook rotations because IAU has neither. There are only around 5 students from IAU and maybe another 5 more who transferred in from other schools ahead of me that I am aware of still doing clinicals. And as far as I know, those students only have the options to do clinicals at the three hospitals we do have (Jackson Park, Baton Rouge, and Harbor Hospital.) From what I understand you could do rotations at any hospital willing to take you. Unfortunately, only 2 out of the 6 core rotations (Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Surgery, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Ob/Gyn) would be actually ACGME certified (Internal Medicine at Harbor Hospital and Baton Rouge) and Family Practice (Jackson Park Hospital). So IAU does have options to finish, but not with ACGME clinicals which is required/recommended in some states.

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Hey Squad41,

1. Just to clarify, AUC has not rejected me, I am waiting an a letter of recommendation to reach them.
2. I would recommend IAU under a few conditions:

• You absolutely don't care where you practice
• Understand there will be a reduction in choices for residency types and locations.
• Were not accepted to SGU, Ross, AUC, Saba, AUA, MUA
• Over some other 3rd tier schools who don't care about their students, because IAU does try to accommodate their student's needs.

1. "IAU not being licensed in any state" I'm sorry, I meant IAU not being on any state's approved list for licensure or clinical rotations.
2. Overall, I felt the actually lecture by some teachers were good, some were bad - nothing new with that. But our case studies (problem-based learning) and ICM did not help with Step One and I feel as if that wasted an enormous waste of time. I am glad that Kaplan was mandatory in the 5th semester because it helped to fill in a few gaps where IAU did a poor job. But 6-7 weeks of Kaplan was definitely not enough for Step one. That stuff should have been throughly studied during the 2 years of basic science. I don't know how you want me to grade IAU on it's performance, but on a A-B-C scale I'll give it a "B-" on how it prepared me for Step one and an overall "C+" for the basic science portion because of the ICM program, lack of better labs (other than anatomy), a few poor teachers, and improper schedules of classes because a shortage of teachers.

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You are correct, the school just had it's first resident this year in Kansas for psychiatry.

I believe we can not get licensed in Penn because of the lack in greenbook electives that they require.

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however, i dont think that psych resident will be able to get fully licensed in kansas until the school has been around for 15 years.

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Could someone elaborate on the schools facilities? IUA student, did you take the MCAT?
Also IUA student, thanks for your insightful posts.

Yeah that is true, I'm sure in a few years he'll post where he gets his license. We're both from Dallas so we'll see how this all plays out.

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Haha, first it's IAU.

Second, no I didn't take MCATS. With that said, almost every program I talked to in order to transfer either stated that it would not be needed since I have passing USMLE scores (mostly Carribean schools said this despite what their website claimed) or they would not take me coming from a Carribean school or IAU (mostly U.S. schools.) Only the 5th pathway programs required it, but almost all of them are ending this year except for Mt. Sinai.

As for school's facilities, it had 3 classrooms which could hold about 50 students each and 3 small case study rooms which could hold about 6 or 7 students comfortably. The anatomy lab was sufficient with models and 2 cadavers (when I was there) but the labs for physiology, pathology, and microbiology kinda sucked. I had a few micro questions in relation to specific testing steps on Step One which could of been made easier with real labs instead of a power point presentation on it.

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Step One [X]IAU's first 90+
Successful Transfer [?]

Greenbook rotations? Click here for Sree's post
State Approvals? Click here
IAU Forum Moderator