Maybe Kigezi Really Is Fraudulent

[C. Ellis]

I also found a website about Kigezi that suggests that
its background is a bit checkered:

http://www.aaimg.com/list/cambridge.html


Why is Kigezi in England where it is not an English school?
It's MD is from Uganda, right? How do you explain that?

[C. Ellis]

Quotation from the American Association of International
Medical Graduates

http://www.aaimg.com/list/cambridge.html

" * St. Christopher University
* Kigezi International School of Medicine
* Medical College of London
* London Medical College

Since 1996, the United Kingdom has become a site of convenience
for new medical schools chartered in other countries. The medical
school promoters obtain a World Health Organization listing but
have little to no presence in the country. They rent offices and
a few classrooms at local colleges in the U.K and operate a “campus”
and program leading to the Doctor of Medicine degree. Cambridge,
England, is an ancient university town and home to many prestigious
British colleges that was once home to three such schools: Grace
University (chartered in the Caribbean then Central America), St.
Christopher (chartered in Senegal) and Kigezi (chartered in Uganda)
all have had a “campus” there. As the story goes, the promoters of
St. Christopher and Kigezi got their start as students and faculty
at Grace. The recent site visit shows only Kigezi remaining in
Cambridge. St. Christopher now rents facilities at the Polytechnic
University in Luton and Grace has departed to Belize, where it
actually holds a charter...

Kigezi International School of Medicine, Cambridge, England, 2000
Deficiencies: Section I a,b,c,e,f,h; Section II b,f,g,k,l;
Section III a,b,c,d,h,j,k; Section IV c,d,f,g,m; Section V b,c,d,e,
f,h,j,k,l,m,n; Section VI a,b,c,de,f,g,j;Section VII b,c,d,f;SVIIId

There have been few fundamental changes since our last site visit.
The core of the school remains housed in the same small three story
facility in Cambridge but it in no manner meets the standards of a
true medical school teaching facility. Students go to the nearby
Eurocenter for classes and can use building facilities. The library
has added holdings and computers. More names of instructors appear
in the catalog but the bulk of instruction is done by part-time
faculty. Clerkships are done primarily, according to students, in
the U.K and there are options to go to a hospital in Uganda. There
is no listing of advertised clerkships in the United States. There
is a US office, however, in the small Ohio river town of Ripley.
What is particularly astonishing is the high tuition rate charged
by Kigezi for such a minimal program."

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by C. Ellis

Why is Kigezi in England where it is not an English school?
It's MD is from Uganda, right? How do you explain that?

kigezi has a campus located in england. the fact that they're listed in england on that bogus site has nothing to do with kigezi coz they dont have a say in it. why dont u ask the bogus aaimg to explain? oh yea, u cant coz they dont really exist . go knock on the door of the address the aaimg has listed and u will figure out that they will be more than happy to sell u beauty products and other things.

c'mon, this topic has been discussed in lots of different forums over and over. just about everyone knows that the aaimg is bogus. just do a search on this site and u will find all the info u need to determine this urself. now if u already knew that and ur just trying to stir up crap (my best guess) than ur a troll which isnt welcome here. if u really have questions about the aaimg than learn more about their bogus ways before quoting them. here is something to get u started from the federation of world medical associations (probably just as bogus as aaimg).

Bogus (Fraud) Associations

AAIMG (American Association of International Medical Graduates)

About AAIMG.....! (American Associations of International Medical Graduates)
FOWMA has performed investigations through its councils, Committees, Commissions and task forces into the authenticity of several associations throughout the world. FOWMA will update the information from time to time on bogus, scam, fraud associations for all health care professionals who are looking into opportunities all over the world.

FOWMA is releasing the following information on AAIMG ( American Association of International Medical Graduates ) based on its detailed research and investigations through its task force.

1. AAIMG is a fraud and bogus organization.

2. AAIMG has registered in State of Nevada without any address. The listed address on the web site is 1802 N. Carson Street, Carson city, NV 89701 USA. There is no such existing address with AAIMG office.

3. AAIMG has no telephone numbers or Fax numbers listed to its association

4. The so called President Dr. Thomas Moore does not exist and is no one by that name in United States listed under AAIMG in any telephone directory or public information booklets like Staate Board licence, registration or any other source. The email listed as presaaimg@hotmail.com is a public hot mail with no direct email to AAIMG.

5. The so called Secretary Sarah B. Weinstein does not exist and is no one by that name in United States listed under AAIMG in any telephone directory or public information booklets like Staate Board licence, registration or any other source. The email listed as execsecaaimg@hotmail.com is a public hot mail with no direct email to AAIMG

6. FOWMA has investigated into the hosting of web site of AAIMG, which is a bogus scam and fraud association. The web site is hosted by a Russian web host company. AAIMG is a bogus web site and association hosted in Russia. Following is the address of the web site host in Russia.

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact: Demkin, Andrew (HDIJIKMWTI) demkin@HOTMAIL.COM 60, Moika emb. apt.33 Saint-Petersburg, 190000 RUSSIA +7 812 3147397 +7 812 3147397

7. FOWMA has found a disclaimer at the bottom of the home page web site of AAIMG as follows:

Design and web hosting by OOO Nautilus, Russia Disclaimer: OOO Nautilus disclaims any responsibility for the content of this website provided by AAIMG

8.Reports of the task force of FOWMA who conducted investigation research into this bogus fraud association (AAIMG )has revealed that Administrations of the Medical Schools throught out Caribbean, Europe and other parts of the world were approached by this fraud AAIMG association and demanded money in US dollars anywhere from $3000 to $7500 for listing the medical school as exceeding AAIMG evaluation criteria . It was also found that Medical Schools who did not pay the money were listed as schools with multiple, serious deficiencies.

9. FOWMA has found that AAIMG web site is hosted by unknown individuals in Russia with self designed criteria to black mail, demand and extract money from medical schools.

10. FOWMA has also found that there are more than one bogus fraud associations like AAIMG operating their activities from outside of USA milking money from new medical schools. FOWMA has also found that AAIMG is making use of the laws of corporation in states like Nevada and Delaware, which are liberal to register and operate from countries like Russia.

11. FOWMA and its task force has found that this fraud association AAIMG has never visited any of the sites of any medical schools as published on their web site by unknown individuals.

12. FOWMA has also learned that there is a multimillion dollar law suit pending againiast this fraud association by several organizations.

13. FOWMA warns all individuals and organization including students, physicians to be careful in reviewing any publications from this bogus fraud association in the form of web information, paper information or by any other email system.

peace

[C. Ellis]

You still have not answered my question!

If Kigezi is a Ugandan school, why doesn't it have
a campus in Uganda? Instead, it has a P.O. Box
in Uganda? ... smells like fish to me.

Don't say that the Kabale Hospital is the campus
in Uganda. That hospital is its own independant
institution.

Kigezi is exploiting a third world country.

That's like registering a school in the "hood"
but telling people that classes are in Beverly Hills.
Just lease some rooms in Beverly Hills and create
a "store front" for a school that is really registered
in the "hood".

Third world countries are sick of being exploited.

[youngmed]

hello,
kigezi is associated with the kabale hospital and in addition has built a clinic for patients in kabale. every student is required to spend at least 12 weeks working in kabale. interesting, that doesn’t sound like exploitation to me. why don't you visit kabale hospital and ask if the students and doctors from kigezi have helped the people of the kigezi region?
I just thought I would also point out that the program sponsors two Ugandan students every year, paying tuition and living expenses while in the program.
I think what each person reading the posts from these (actually THIS) individual(s) should think is “would I want this person as my doctor”? I really haven’t ever figured out why people go through so much effort to make bogus claims. "do no harm".

My education from Kigezi has been excellent all the way through. I am currently in clinical rotations, and scored well into the 90’s on the USMLE step 1.

Look past the ** on this site. You are going to be a doctor. Think like one. What would a person do if they couldn’t get into a medical school???

Spread love, not hate.

[youngmed]

oh, by the way.

have you ever been to Africa? If so, you might understand the reason for the PO box!

kigezi students help others and care about people. it is sad to see so much hurt...

peace.