the sec of education in Washington DC informed the Hornable Min of Educ of St Lucia n March 28,07 the NCFME review decided based on lack of info and matrials recieved from St Lucia unable to determinethe comparability of St Lucia med education to US and therefore : it withdraw its comparability status

St George,Ross,AUC,all get re-certified.St Mathew recieved comparability at that meeting.

Its not good news since they re-approved all other carribean Islands ,the only positive thing I can make out of negative decision is for alumni graduated before March 28,07 to have copy of the Sec of education letter and say: "we were US comparable until March 28,07"!!!it might help somehow,somewhere.

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Does this mean that St. Lucian med. schools will no longer be IMED listed and their grads. unable to take USMLE? What other effects might it have? I've no idea what this means in practical terms.
post script - I've just seen from some previous posts that it may have some adverse impact on loans - anything else?

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[quote=diogenes;691131]Does this mean that St. Lucian med. schools will no longer be IMED listed and their grads. unable to take USMLE? What other effects might it have? I've no idea what this means in practical terms.
post script - I've just seen from some previous posts that it may have some adverse impact on loans - anything else?[/QUOTE

Students will be eligible for USMLE.
the comparability was done earlier in the past for stafford loans and later schools like St Mathews and others requested reviews.losing the comparability by itself is not huge deal but if you add losing teri,north dakota,and many other issues[CA
disapproval list circulating all over,no NY or FL clinical clearance,other states looking at CA list etc]all issues are adding up so fast.
I am disappointed with the St Lucian gov because they keep saying we formed the med schools monitoring committe,we rehabilating schools then they did not supply the materials to US DOE according to the decision!!!!

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Thanks. Yes, that's very tough on Spartan; there are other islands with a poor reputation for their quality control of med. schools (St. Kitts for instance).

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I am sure many Islands not looking close enough about their standards of medical education,many just want to give charter,have few hundreds of students helping all year round boosting economy,the differance is new schools are not on the front pictures like they never applied to DOE,CA,so they never got disapproved and not listed and its funny that new school with much low quality education can be approved in many states that Spartan is not just because a state just copied CA list and can't disapproved schools never applied!!!!!
I feel that spartan has good education based on so many strong grads practicing everywhere and they are far better than many newer schools but strange they keep losing issues and even the gov according to the sec letter failed to complete the materials requsted.The gov needs to hire US educational firm specialize in standards and quality to help.
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Ah,the semi-final nail in the coffin?

who's worried abt the students?