Originally Posted by IDreamOfMedicine

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First off, I love your ValueMd screename. You couldn't have made it more obvious that your a Caribbean school promoter/lover and that your main goal is to start unjustified bashing . Second, clinicals here are kept hush hush because yes, they are VERY good. I have actually had a meeting with Dr. ***** and spoke to him about them and was told about a few sites that I was interested in. I was pretty amazed to see what was available. Also, I was told, the reason it isn't made publicized to people outside of the school is because schools in the past have tried to send students to some of our clinical sites by using the St. Chris name. I personally think that it would cause an uproar amongst the student body in the other schools if they found out what sites St. Chris has available. Not too healthy for the admin of the "other" schools, don't you think? Third, you can't just call up the offices and start asking for sites because they probably won't know. The Director and Dean of the school only know about them in detail and they actually sit down with you to discuss them. Once again, if you have faith then come to the school and if you are really interested in this school, you can def have the time and money to visit it. I am sure we all visited colleges when we were gettin out of high school so its no big deal. If you are cautious and are very paranoid, then I suggest you don't come here. THis is a medical school and you are coming here to study and work hard. I actually came here without visiting the school and I am pretty happy about it. I also love the fact that I can go to London every weekend, or even travel to any European country for only about 60 pounds a ticket. Also, with the whole University of Luton thing, I don't see a difference with or without using their facilities. The school is more than capable to function on its own. ALso, I actually went to the Univerisity of Luton the other day and they still honor your St. Chris ID card when you need to use their libraries and computer labs. Basically you have access to the whole Univeristy with your ID cards. As for the science labs, St. Chris is making their own labs as they continue to expand in their current building. With the whole enrollment thing, the school actually does cap off the number of acceptances. It was around 60 medical students and then add the rest who are pre-med and transfers so it should be around 80-85 total students in a given semester. The school can easily accept the 300 kids a semester the other schools let in, but then what would be the purpose of that? Anyways, I haven't bashed anyone or anything in my post so hopefully your replies will be the same. Thanks. Once again if you have any questions about the school, please PM me and I will try to get you an answer.

Originally Posted by banta

Picard, it is NOT that far fetched....and in fact....happens with GREAT FREQUENCY....that students from other schools.....most probably not AUC, ROSS, or SGU.......but the many others that are in existence all over the caribbean.....these students call the hospitals directly and try to set rotations up themselves once they find out that we have clinicals at a site. THIS A FACT....they are not "faking paperwork" to make believe they are st. chris students, however, they are getting their school to fax over their info, immunizations, and malpractice insurance so that their students can do rotations at our sites.

Originally Posted by smsingh

about the school hiding this site. In fact is was during my interview that I was told about this site after expressing my views about information that I had read in various forums.