"St Christopher's Medical school (aka) St Christopher's

azskeptic · #1 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 06:04 AM

St. Chris, if this isn't true you had better contact Oregon to get it straightened out. az skeptic

http://www.osac.state.or.us/oda/unaccredited.html

"St Christopher's Medical school (aka) St Christopher's Medical College based in Luton is not recognised by the UK authorities as a degree course provider nor does it satisfy the criteria for degree awarding..." UK Higher Education Governance office, 2004

azskeptic · #2 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 06:14 AM

http://www.gmc-uk.org/med_ed/default.htm

Approved Medical Schools in the UK

A list of schools offering medical degrees leading to a primary medical qualification and registration with the GMC is listed on our website. Sometimes we get queries about UK based schools, which are under the remit of an overseas university, for example Medical College London and St Christopher’s.

Such queries should be passed to the Head of Registration Martin Holt mholt@gmc-uk.org.

teratos · #3 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 06:43 AM

You guys need to get on your admin. The more states that publish stuff like that, the more states are gonna follow that lead. G

wcb22 · #4 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 08:53 AM

MUA was on that list too.

azskeptic · #5 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by wcb22

MUA was on that list too.

as is Ross

azskeptic · #6 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 09:28 AM

to me that is more concerning.......what will GMC tell state boards about the licensing situation of St. Chris? any students asked them yet?

bts4202 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 10:05 AM

The school is aware of this and has already been working with the office of degree authorization to find a solution.

What happened was that they were unable to find proof of our accreditation in Senegal when they went to update the list. So they contacted England, who obviously said that we are not a british degree provider (our MD is senegalese and always has been) and that is all the info they had on us. Hence, what they wrote.

Quote:

"St Christopher's Medical school (aka) St Christopher's Medical College based in Luton is not recognised by the UK authorities as a degree course provider nor does it satisfy the criteria for degree awarding..." UK Higher Education Governance office, 2004

The school is in the process of having senegal send over all the neccesary documents to prove our accreditation and licensability in Senegal. Unfortunately, all of the info must come from senegal themselves... and we all know how inefficient third world governments can be.

The person in the NJ office heading this up is Mr. Cundiff. Contact him with more questions about the his progress.

azskeptic · #8 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bts4202

The school is aware of this and has already been working with the office of degree authorization to find a solution.

What happened was that they were unable to find proof of our accreditation in Senegal when they went to update the list. So they contacted England, who obviously said that we are not a british degree provider (our MD is senegalese and always has been) and that is all the info they had on us. Hence, what they wrote.

Quote:

"St Christopher's Medical school (aka) St Christopher's Medical College based in Luton is not recognised by the UK authorities as a degree course provider nor does it satisfy the criteria for degree awarding..." UK Higher Education Governance office, 2004

The school is in the process of having senegal send over all the neccesary documents to prove our accreditation and licensability in Senegal. Unfortunately, all of the info must come from senegal themselves... and we all know how inefficient third world governments can be.

The person in the NJ office heading this up is Mr. Cundiff. Contact him with more questions about the his progress.

so basically St. Chris has to admit to what the UK office says about the degrees but will this have a residue affect on licensing in the US and Canada?

wcb22 · #9 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 11:14 AM

azskeptic,
why would Ross be on that list? I thought they had grads practicing in Oregon.

bts4202 · #10 (**permalink**) 06-11-2004, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by azskeptic

so basically St. Chris has to admit to what the UK office says about the degrees but will this have a residue affect on licensing in the US and Canada?

Please note that the organization that wrote that comment is the UK higher education governance, not the GMC. This has nothing to do with being licensed in the UK with a foriegn degree. If any other non-UK school was inquired about in the same fashion, they would get the same response since they would not be an accreditted UK institution. The school has never claimed to be that though, we are a senegalese school with a branch campus in England. Since Oregon could not find out from Senegal that we were accreditted when it did its first superficial look, we now have to play catch up to fix the error. Is it surprising that senegal has problems with dissemination of needed information... not in the slightest. However, once Oregon has the proper information from the senegalese government, we will be taken off of that list.

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