http://chronicle.com/jobs/id.php?id=297377

Position: Full-time Faculty
Institution: SABA University School of Medicine
Location: Netherland Antilles
Date posted: 8/5/2004

SABA University School of Medicine

Permanent, Full-Time, Tenure Track Positions

SABA University is pleased to announce that permanent, full-time, tenure track positions are open in the following basic sciences areas:
Histology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Neuroscience, and Pathology.

Full-Time, Tenure Track Positions at SABA University are available at all academic levels (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). Salaries are tax-free, with travel and health care benefits. Salary range $42-50,000 (tax free). Candidates should have either a Ph.D. or M.D., with demonstrated medical school or graduate teaching experience. Openings are available immediately and will remain open until a suitable candidate is selected.

SABA University School of Medicine is a fully accredited medical school, recognized by the World Health Organization. SABA University current has a basic science enrollment of 250 medical students and 35+ full-time faculty, with hundreds of graduates in residency and licensed throughout the U.S. and Canada. The student-faculty ratio of 7:1 is ideal for quality teaching and the new medical school campus and state-of-the-art library were just completed last year. The medical school is located on the small Dutch island of Saba, about 30 miles from St. Maarten in the central Caribbean. Saba is virtually crime free with no poverty or unemployment. English is the first language and the local population are friendly and supportive of the medical school. For more information about the island of Saba and SABA University, please look at the web site (www.saba.edu).

Contact: Candidates should send c.v., photograph, and two letters of reference to: Dr. Dale Berne, Faculty Search Committee, P.O. Box 386, Gardner, MA 01440. Telephone: (978-630-5122, ext. 112) or e-mail: dlberne@saba.edu.

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Still skeptical after all these years.
This is it. There are no hidden meanings.WYSIWYG

http://www.internetmedicalschool.homestead.com

http://www.chiropractormds.homestead.com/index.html

yeah, what's your point? Are you just advertising the positions? Is this a breaking scandal? I guess I don't understand why you posted this fact.

The hiring advertisement has been there for a long time (ever since first time I visited the Saba website which is like more than 2 years ago). I think EIC just like stocking up good quality professors before the shortage comes, also as back up so profs can take vacation. One prof. I knew applying for Saba before but was offered position in MUA. Maybe that's why some courses in MUA (when we were there), have more than one prof. teaching. I think it's a good thing.

Well, the salaries are fairly low but it could be an interesting job for someone looking to move to the islands while their spouse was attending medical school?

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Still skeptical after all these years.
This is it. There are no hidden meanings.WYSIWYG

http://www.internetmedicalschool.homestead.com

http://www.chiropractormds.homestead.com/index.html

Don't forget it's tax free. To receive net $50,000, the gross salary would be around 70-80K based on Cdn tax rate, don't know about US tax rate. I guess it would attract some retiring MDs who want to spend few years in Carribean while getting some money by teaching few hours a day, or PhDs who don't usually earn much in doing research in univerisities. Also, this maybe just a starting salary anyway, if a professor is really good in teaching, I bet the school wouldn't mind to pay him more to keep him happy teaching in the school. If one is experienced, it doesn't take him/her eight hours a day to prepare & teach, so the hourly wage may not be bad at all.