Last year I was taking time off from IUHS. Dr Neame left and then ******. I called up the Canada office and they had no clue who I was and no record of my payment. I paid all preclinicals. I just walked away. I lost money but I figured that they took my money and it would be easier on myself to go elsewhere and look for a better degree. I have talked to several friends that were in the program that said they have no clue what happened last April. I want to know the real truth now that it seems people are talking. I know one person,charlesthehun, on here that defended the school and blasted coconut man (i think) and Georgie Porgie. He left the school in quit and did not spill any infomation. He left most of us hanging. I remember that he stated that we are going to get Financial aid, how we were going to change the curiculumn in order to be able to go anywhere in the US. Now he is here stating that they he has the contacts for the FTC if any Ex students needs it. Why the change. I looked at the valuemd site for the first time in 4 months and had to register and post on here from the challenge of a poster above.

I AM CALLING YOU OUT LIKE PREVIOUS POSTER STATED

I know that you know where the bones are buried at IUHS. You where in the student goverment and worked with Neame, Rawlings and ******. You were there when Dyron Powell was there so you should know the dirt on this school. Why have you now after a year decided to pop you head out of the whole and post on this website. In all seriousness, I want you to share why you are hinting at your distain for IUHS and not just stating it. You are gone and IUHS should have no hold on you now. Tell us the dirt man and share your knowledge for all of us.

Genossa

Last I heard Georgie Porgie got married to Little Miss Muffett and they are living "hapily ever after" In the USA.

But when Georgie was telling the truth about IUHS he was "exposed" (LOL) and called Coconut man by Charles the Hun, who told blatant lies about the man. Now he seems to be having trouble he is crying out-- without giving details of why he is crying out. But it seems that when he was supressing the truth Georgie was telling the truth because he had vision, and could percieve that something was grossly wrong with IUHS

Why would you stay for one full year at a school you were taken "back" with, since on the first day you noticed they operated out of a house. Did it take you one full year to grip the fact you did not like this?

I am a IUHS student who will be moving to SABA soon. The final strike for me was to hear that the Registrar was fired on Monday! She was from a real Canadian School and was trying to make things right at IUHS. She was also the only one who truly helped you. I am truly upset and have spoken to my IUHS buddies to try to get them to leave as well. The Registrar was the only thing keeping us there! I am trying to reach her, but she tells me for the moment she cannot speak to students. I think she is going to sue them, but wouldn't say. \

I'll try to get the goods from her and maybe she would be interested in selling all of IUHS secrets!

I also had some dealings with the registrar and found her genuinely concerned and helpful: it's bad and sad news.

Hielo:

I was thinking about your post, above, as to why someone would stay when they realized their new school was "in a house". I wondered if students, going to the Caribbean already knowing that they are doing something really 'different' so-to-speak, might not complain or do anything b/c they suspect that is the norm?

There are several posters on valuemd who have shared their personal web pages and blogs, which include terrific photos. I highly recommend new students considering the various schools, to spend some time going through those personal accounts offered by students. I'm not saying to judge any school based on photos or anything, but just so there are no big surprises in that respect. Who knows, some students might want to learn in such tight quarters.

Oh, to those where this applies, please edit posts where names are mentioned, as this is against TOS you agreed to. Thanks!

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Trust me, it is more than the "house" on St. Kitts you need to worry about. IUHS lies on their transcripts and I am in contact with the former Registrar. She is tight-lipped right now, but I think she will tell-all in a matter of time. Apparently there are all kinds of administrative issues that I have heard about from other staff members.

The accountant is evil and only wants your money. After you are half-way through the program, he will tell you that you owe more money and is really mean.

None of this new !

You were told all this before.

From August 2002 - April 2003 Georgie Porgie et aliter started to reveal THE TRUTH AND CERTAIN INSIDE SECRETS ABOUT IUHS.

He was threatened in emails by IUHS students, lied about on the old forum by Charles the Hun and "exposed" (that was so funny). He was ridiculed and call names............but the TRUTH WILL ALWAYS OUT

In 2003 and finally most of the real stalwart teachers and staff at IUHS had left..... even Charles the hun who currently has issues with IUHS as hinted at on this forum departed.

So what is new

Slowly the clock is ticking TICK TOCK

IUHS WILL END OF ON BASSETERRE DOCK

As a former student and former ISA representative...I do know the whole truth. The school is a scam and for those of you who are defending this school and trying to validate its existance trying calling another school in the region, tell them where you attend school and see if they will even entertain a notion of transfer to them. You will find that over time when an institution has such a black cloud over it and is unable to recruit professors with any decent background, and fails to recruit students without strange promises and arrangements for future benefit is truly a scam. NO doubt about it. They are dying off so fast in their students that are moving to Atlanta to do clinicals they they are even now moving their meeting to Chicago to try to get a new neighborhood where no one knows them. The past faculty has had all kinds of trouble with the law, the current VP is a scam artist extrodinaire who is an accountant running the medical school, the island house which they call the medical school was owned by locals then sold and made into a museum and now the school uses if for "teaching". What an unfortunate place for more students to find out that dishonest people are everywhere in this world.

Vasquez & Good Dr Thanks for posting the info you have on IUHS.

Its very TRUE you will only be able to transfer from IUHS to another foreign medical school- like SJMS- which took IUHS student transfers in 2002 (let them deny it now but its all on the old Hanson Forum) .



The way the IUHS courses were/are structured makes it impossible to transfer credits/ There is nothing inherently wrong with problem-based learning. But PBL programs require MORE FACULTY THAN IUHS HAS EVER HAD. THIS WAS POINTED OUT BY GEORGIE ETAL SINCE 2002. At that time the distance program was run entirely by ONE TEACHER.



Re “This is not what you would see in North America” with respect to your statement “only a few foreign-trained doctors as professors” is VERY VERY PUERILE and betrays your bias and ignorance about medical training.



THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH FOREIGN TRAINED DOCTORS AS PROFESSORS sir! THERE IS MEDICINE OUTSIDE OF AMERICA AND VERY GOOD MEDICINE TOO.



And the shabby house with no lab, library is no worse than some other schools Ive visited.



However, it is TRUE that “Most of IUHS students fail the USMLE exams - some have taken it 3 or 4 times.” This is because THE USMLE OBJECTIVES CANNOT POSSIBLY BE COVERED IN THE ONLINE PROGRAM IN THE TIME ALLOTED.



Similarly the on campus program is devoted entirely to covering the CASE OF THE WEEK. Where as some will correctly opine that most medical students skip lectures and study on their own, AT IUHS THERE WAS DEFINITELY NO PROPER GUIDANCE EXHIBITED.



It certainly is a shame to see a school take advantage of students for so long.

I sincerely hope that the end is indeed near and that some individuals are indeed ready to launch war on IUHS and its parent company.

Current students ought indeed to transfer now before they lose anymore money. Your education is as useless as that from the recently closed St Lukes.



The fact that various licensing boards have pointed this out can be seen on the old forum, where it was posted since early October 2002.



I can understand that a decent honest person could have trouble “signing transcripts with education the students did not take and the idea that the transcripts do not say that the student did anything in distance education” but this has been going on since the inception of IUHS. If you will email me any email address that works for you I will send you the transcript template that was designed to fool ECFMG and attempt to equivocate the actual work done in the PBL cases, as if they were done as COURSE in the normal way. Eg ANATOMY PATH PHARM ETC



Georgie Porgie and friends pointed out between August 2002 and April 2003 that IUHS was indeed giving poor poor education, by unacceptable methods…………………



It is TRUE that even now its very difficult to get a transcript. I have friends who have related the horrors they experienced in such a quest.