Windsor or American University of Antigua!!!!!!!!!

[superavacado]

Anybody have an honest opinion and non-biased sugestion of which school is better???

I have heard windsor is a good school (started in 1998) and they are affordable. However, I have also heard the AUA (started 2004) is a good school but they are fairly new at the game and their first batch of doctors are only started to graduate and get their residency now (something I am kinda scared of because AUA does not have a proven track record yet)

Any feedback would be awesome.

Thanks.

[lswiltshire]

Although AUA is only 4 years old it is progreesing very quickly, and is already superior to many of the Caribbean schools---including Windsor.

[Genossa maximillian]

Originally Posted by lswiltshire

Although AUA is only 4 years old it is progreesing very quickly, and is already superior to many of the Caribbean schools---including Windsor.

Didin't Windsor just completed the building of new facilities?

[MDXRS22]

Take a closer look for yourself here:

New Campus - ValueMD Photos Album

[Genossa maximillian]

Looks nice, clean. Thanks.

Originally Posted by MDXRS22

Take a closer look for yourself here:

New Campus - ValueMD Photos Album

[lswiltshire]

Genossa asked

Didn't Windsor just completed the building of new facilities?

Yes Windsor has moved its operaions from in that barn like structure near the Bsaseterre docks to Cayon after what? Almost 10 years?

However, whereas it is nice that they now have more salubrious environs, as they ought to have had from the beginning, and whereas I believe that proper infrastructure facilitates learning, the point I was making is that AUA has a better medical program and is developing at a faster rate than most Caribbean offshore schools including Windsor.

UHSA has had fairly good facilities from its inception in 1982, but remains one of the most poorly run, as well as the worst school in the islands. Improving the infrastructure is welcomed, but much more is needed—as at ROSS, SGU, SABA, AUC.

The word of St Kitts, from those who ought to know, is that both St Theresa and Windsor are having serious problems about which they are doing a good job of keeping well hidden.

I gathered from a former colleague that Windsor has a staffing problem and have been issuing contracts in which they are asking prospective faculty to sign to ridiculous conditions such as teaching all subjects, signing that they can not teach at any school in the federation of St Kitts & Nevis within 5 years of leaving or being fired from Windsor. Someone who received such a contract has circulated it.

To answer the question posed by the instigation of this thread Windsor or AUA, I again give my opinion GO TO AUA. They have the financial backing and the expertise of how to run a medical school

[superavacado]

Thank-you for the honest replys. However, I have noticed on the winsor website which is very in-depth and gives prospective students a lot of information, it gives extensive information about the USMLE and the fact that they have mandatory evening classes to prepare for them which Antigua doesn't. That is a cause for concern right there. When I spoke a person at Antigua they said they do not have mandatory classes and the student has to learn everything and prepare for the USMLE on their own. To me, this shows that Windsor cares about their students passing and wants them to succeed so they can refer more people back to the school.

Also, a school which has been around for 10 yrs + has graduted more doctors then a school that has only been around for 4 yrs and are just having their first batch of doctors graduate. Also, the tuition is way more cheaper than Antigua. You look at Antigua tuition, and theres is more than double what you pay at windsor; no wonder antigua can afford to build a new 60 million dollar campus because of the tuition costs. Also, windsor includes their student housing and books in their tuition cost.

Wouldn't windsor sound like a better school to you?????

[ICE101]

this thread doesn't even make sense. it appears as if you have already made up your mind, and you are comparing apples and oranges here. you are comparing a school that uses top notch facilities, a vast faculty, and ny approval after only 4 years in existence to a school that has no accreditations, no plans for accreditations (spoke to dr. g) in ny or cali anytime in the near future, and has been operating out of a barn for 10 years. the new campus? it's ok.......but the tuition will go up DRASTICALLY in the next few semesters.......... a person who shops hyundai doesn't cross shop with lexus..........so i don't see why you are cross shopping 2 schools that aren't even in the same league..........you get what you pay for my friend..........enough said..........one thing i learned is that you can't be 'cheap' on a med school education........othewise it'll come and bite you on your behind 5 years later.........and during med school when you wish you went to a better school....

[lswiltshire]

superavacado

It is your money! You can use it when you want to and how you want to! Then you can come back and tell prospective students here on VMD that "WE TOLD YOU SO!"

You obviously have your mind made up.

But I will tell you this ......when persons are applying to a school for a job and admin is charging them US $100 for the priviledge, they have some sorta problem and weird mind set at that school.

When a school's admin is offerring a contract to prospective staff that they should sign that by six months employment the admin must be holding one month's salary of the teacher- something must be wrong. If Windsor can do that to thier staff I wonder what they are telling the students. I wonder what kind of staff they have.


I guess they can get new graduates from India, pay them the US 1000- 1500 per month, and by the end of the year get a fresh batch after these pass USMLE and migrate to the USA.

If they dont get a real load of students soon maybe AZskeptic and Genossa and I can buy that new building in Cayon, and take them out of thier economic woes.

We will be offering free floats with saltfish from bev---------ly in the Circus by the telephone booth every Friday at noon to all new students.

[jameslynton]

Originally Posted by superavacado

... However, I have noticed on the winsor website which is very in-depth and gives prospective students a lot of information, it gives extensive information about the USMLE and the fact that they have mandatory evening classes to prepare for them which Antigua doesn't. ...

Wouldn't windsor sound like a better school to you?????

AUA has 5th semester in Miami that is a super prep session for the USMLE Step 1 exam. Just cause a website has an in depth step 1 exam details does not mean it is a good school. VMD has a top step review area, does that make us a medical school? What I can tell you from the students at AUA who made it to 5th semester - they were well prep'ed for the USMLE because they had very good teachers. AUA has a pretty stable faculty vs some of the lessor island medical schools that have turnover just about every semester. There are a few poster here who have been at both schools. I would listen to them vs what is posted on a website...