new med school

[miraclemd]

Has anyone heard of the med school opening on the TX/Mexico border in Nuevo Leon? If so, what is your take on the program? They start their 1st semester this month. Here's the link. www.medschoolgroup.com

[archon218]

this school looks like a big pile of doo doo!

[starlightimmortal]

Like all other brand-spankin new med schools, I think one should approach this one with caution.

[jim]

just like when you buy a new car, you never want to get one from the first few years of a model, you always want to wait until they work the problems out!

[dt]

From their application form, it looks like the school is James Cook School of Medicine. http://www.ssu.ac/jcsom/jcsom_pim.asp

http://imed.ecfmg.org/details.asp?co...17020&psize=25

[teratos]

Another school with a charter in one place and campus in another. I guess it is attractive since if it is close enough to the border, you can live in the US. Can anyone get licensed? This new trend may bring attention to the charter/licensure issue. G

[azskeptic]

He's ***** Rex Sands. . He's a licensed physician in Texas. He graduated from Universidad del Noreste in Tamaulipas, Mexico in 1977

all i did was look up the dns of the new website and it shows him as the owner...is he trying to resurrect the James Cook school chaos again? who knows? but he has big problems if he thinks Texas will let him do his clinicals in their state....

[anencephalic]

Yikes! Their tuition is nearly identical to AUC's...$9000 per trimester for an unproven commodity?! Combine that with the "Federal Loans Will Be Available" statement...how many typical med students can afford that kind of tuition $$$ without loan help? Anything to cash in on desperation and poor judgement, I suppose.

Aloha,

[azskeptic]

Originally Posted by anencephalic

Yikes! Their tuition is nearly identical to AUC's...$9000 per trimester for an unproven commodity?! Combine that with the "Federal Loans Will Be Available" statement...how many typical med students can afford that kind of tuition $$$ without loan help? Anything to cash in on desperation and poor judgement, I suppose.

Aloha,

what it appears to me is that more and more folks think they can open a med school and get rich. $10 says that the emergency room doctor who is starting this college doesn't realize that his operation is illegal in Texas (and Mexico also incidentally)...but there are always people who will pay the money thinking they are going to get the coveted MD degree....it is another example of "See one, do one, teach one" bleeding over into medical school. If I was talented I would do a scattergram to show how all of the medical schools are inter-connected via the founders...this one would be a new root but watch..there will be more.

az skeptic,betting that some students have sent in their money and are eagerly awaiting their mexican adventure

[anencephalic]

Originally Posted by azskeptic

az skeptic,betting that some students have sent in their money and are eagerly awaiting their mexican adventure

$25,000 deposit refundable under certain circumstances on the 1st date of matriculation of the following trimester...nice way to rack up some interest, eh?

Aloha,