yeah, i am embarassed because it's fri night and i am relegated to this nonsense, but what can i say, i couldn't get a flight out of here till sun, everything was booked 14-17 for some reason.

if you look at the aua forum, roper sticks up for that non-school while bashing smu. hey, i will be the first (unlike most people here) to say smu has flaws, but all schools do, and at least it is a real school unlike aua.

so don't fear roper any more, he is just a smu student who went to aua. and that really does explain a lot (though i genuinely believe that criticizing smu or any school does not make one a traitor in any way because i think we have a real responsibility to those who come after us to offer our honest advice, experience and guidance as best we can)

And all along I thought it was Norman Fell from Three's Company...

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This is complete ** on many levels. For
1) I don't bash St Matthews. In fact, I feel somewhat sorry for your students. Besides my opinion that they shouldn't have gone there in the 1st place, if any of what your administration is saying is true then a few people on the Cali Board really screwed you over.
2) you read the thread about AUA here. http://www.valuemd.com/ftopic33302.html
Note, that I never backed AUA specifically. Hell, I EVEN think it is shady. What I strived for is accuracy in the title of the user's post, which was totally inaccurate. My stance on AUA... if you're smart you don't go there. However, that is my stance on ALL offshore carib schools, including St Georges, AUC, Ross, and SMU too!
3) Its total ** of you to start this post.

And lastly, if you really figured me out, you'd know by now that I'm not a big fan of foreign schools in general, and certainly not offshore schools.

So what are you doing on a board that is all about Caribbean/offshore med schools? Just curious. G

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Just because I'm on these boards doesn't mean that I support what is going on or that I am a promoter of anything on here. In fact, quite the opposite. It is with great disdain that I see many of these offshore carib schools pretending to be LCME accredited schools that are NOWHERE near the level of ANY LCME accredited school.

Me too!

So, you're just here to tell us how much off-shore schools suck? We already know that, yeah, yeah, we aren't worthy. Go post on studentdoctor.net or something.

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agreed roper but that wasn't the question. the question was what is your interest. BTW by definition, no offshore school is lcme accredited so there is no way to pretend as such. Anyway I am curious as to the answer of george's q.

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i made an error posting this and could not get the original message back. will try again. pls delete mods.

I'm not sure 'all' foriegn medical schools are bad. Alot of the best doctors I know are foriegn graduates, in fact a high percentage of doctors here in NY are foriegn graduates, including heads of major hospitals.

I agree some schools are 'shady', but plenty of foriegn schools have produced GREAT physicians.

Guys, ingore this guys posts from now on, they make no sense. He offers no facts to base his bias opinions on.

Hey roper, give us some facts as to why graduates from the US are better than graduates from foriegn schools.....I'm curious??? Explain to me why the most successful young MD I know went to SABA? Explain why almost 40% of all NY/NJ MD's are foriegn graduates? Explain why the HEAD of Pediatrics, Cardiology, and IM at our local hospital here in NY are ALL foriegn graduates? Plaes explain??? I am so curious.....

Well, that is a debatable point. The offshore carib schools do emulate an LCME accredited school in that 99% of their graduates are prepared for post-grad training and licensure in the US.

I read on here an analogy of car manufacturing. If you are a car company making cars overseas. Then darn right the government has a right to not accept cars for export into the US where it is determined that those manufacturing plants are inferior to what is available in the US.

There is a lot of shady, underhanded, marketing tactics going on these forums. You know it and I know it. However, there are college kids out there that don't realize that there are other educational options MUCH better than the offshore carib schools that emulate the LCME schools, but are in no way near any LCME accredited school. So, why am I here? Because it's a free country. And you are as equally entitled to your opinion no matter how wrong it may be. Just don't expect someone like me to sit and not post to the atrocities seen on here such as this topic - as it is clearly is in violation of the TOS agreement - which further illustrates that some moderators may be a continuum of the continual violations of the TOS they implement.