Hi everybody.first of all im an RN with BSN degree and my specialty is Critical Care.I want to become an MD but have some constraints as im married,so i discovered a distance learning program at a school in St.Kitts
called International University of Health Scienced(i.e IUHS).It is listed in the
IMED too ,which makes it accredited.Could you give me some advice as to
1. whether its accredited in USA
2. i can do my clinicals California where i live?

3. Does anyone know of any graduates of such distance learning programs
who got to do there clinicals in USA and later got a residency there?
3. Whether the whole thing is feasible?
coz the main reason that it attracted me was that i wudnt have to leave home i.e my husband n family.

Thanks hope to see a reply soon

Read state laws. Almost all will not allow distance learning. I have yet to see any licensed grad from the distance learning program. Don't do it.

You cannot do anything in CA.

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please let me know what you have on IUHS I was thinfing of taking their online MD course.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Is there anyother online school I can go to?

Thank you,

michael
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online programs prey on RN's chiros etc because they know a lot of you guys know you can do what an MD does, want to get there, but are stuck with mortgage/kids, etc so please watch out for these shady operations as they will not get you an ability to work as a licensed doc.

the majority of people that attend these schools are chiros, dentists, nutritionists who just want to add "MD" at the end of their name to bring in more patients but many states don't even allow you to add MD to your business unless you are licensed so even that is bogus.

check with state medical boards...most require 2 years of continuous physical attendnace on a campus, most require 60-90 credit hours of pre-med courses, and a few even require a bachelors degree....there are no shortcuts to becoming a real MD trust me i looked...hehe

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There are dozens of U.S. Online Nurse Practitioner programs that should have no problem licensing in the U.S. I think going to a foreign medical school online will lead to a lot of potential licensing problems in the USA.

My question is: Is there anyone who graduated an online M.D. program and is currently licensed to practice in the United States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virigin Islands, Guam or American Samoa? just curious.

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An Iowa (I'm thinkin Waterloo) newspaper article describes the education of a Dr. Gregory Neyman, MD who rec'd his MD via distance education from UHSA. He had to make a few trips back & forth over a 27 month time span, but apparently Iowa accepts this type of MD degree.

The article stated he was accepted into residency at Northeast Iowa Family Practice Residency Program. See www.familypracticeresidency.org
and his photo is there!

I'm not saying there's forgiveness for the devil, but the program director at Northeast Iowa seemed receptive to his MD, as quoted in the article.

Problem is, residency is one thing. Residents are consider trainees. IN most states, residents have not gone through the licensure process scrutiny. Heck, in some states, the medical board doesn't even require residency programs to register their residents. Licensure is a whole other thing. There are plenty of IMG's who have gone through residency and only to find out they are not eligible for licensure... Remember back in the late 80's/early 90's when a bunch of old Russian and Mexican medical schools that sold MD degrees to chiropractors on an accelerated course? Many of them went onto residency, none of them are licensed today... a few are in jail today...

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Picard,
Thanks for clarifying residency and licensure. Also I might add that passing USMLE does not mean licensure as well!

I am still waiting to hear of any person who has been licensed in the USA or its territories, that has graduated from a distant learning medical school.

Don't hold your breath.

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