TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD INFO

[plasma]

I have called Texas med board. I spoke with Ms. Myers she stated that St. Chris is not on their list as an approved school but, either Ross or St. George as well as some other off shore schools ( general middle east)

She stated that the med school has to meet the us med school core subjects in the ** courses. the school will also have to have a research dept. (texas requires the same as cali)

Ms. Myers also stated that if a student from St. Chris wanted to come to Texas for rotations and residency that a student could do both in Texas provided that the student enroll in a Texas state approved medical college (UTMB Galveston Baylor College of Medicine M.D Anderson Uni of Texas Uni of Houston Medical School Uni Texas Medical School Austin SouthWest College of Medicine Debakey-Cooley School of Cardiology Houston) thoes are to name a few take note most all approved schools are Texas owned and funded. I guess its a good way to keep competition down

What the student would have to do is to co-enroll with any approved college and will be placed in the facility as a Texas Med school intern. Keep in mind they will place you in a state approved hospital and they pick where you go. You will still be a St. Chris student and your degree will have St. Chris only. You will be a visiting student at the Texas med school only. The only benfit I see in this is that you will get some excelent training in cardio and psyc.

The draw back is that Texas will allow you do this but, they will not gaurntee that you will be licensed in Texas. When you submit an application they will look for the school you that your degree is from and if the course load is equal to Texas Med school attendence and where you completed rotations and residency and if the school has a research program.

From what I understand Texas is most difficult to get in to. If you want to go to texas I would call Ms. Myers and speak to her she will guide you in the right direction.

Texas also requires that a person have 60 credit hours at any college in any area (could be pottery basket weaving ect) as stupid as it sounds yes it is true. So strick about everything else but lacking a bit here. Florida requires that you have 1 yr in organic inorg chem. biology anatomy phys. looks like Texas missed something

At any rate that is what I know and Ms. Myers also said to keep an eye on the state med board for the new proposals and the current passed proposals. they seem to change more that one changes underware.

what is law today may be old news by the time we get up in the morning.

[Picard]

Texas is notorious for nitpicking IMG's applications looking for any reason to deny licensure. Even graduates from established schools such as SGU have run into road blocks with Texas.

Picard

[FrenchFrie]

im planning on going there soon to talk to them in person.....the office is less than 3 miles away from me --FF

[bts4202]

Regarding research:

Although we have had a PhD program for some time, no one has yet to do it so the research dept would be a bit of a weak association. However, we now have a new dean starting in Jan 2004. He brings with him major research facilites in Dublin where all research will be released in the name of St. Christopher's. I will release more about him soon. I am still gathering info and I need to ask his permission first. But, hopefully this will start to satisfy those types of requirements for Cali, NM, and Texas.

[Spanky]

Keep in mind as well that Texas requires a foreign school to offer Continuing Medical Education programs as well as a post-graduate (ie, residency) program...with an African charter I would suppose St.C would have to establish this in Senegal.

[bts4202]

We already have continuing medical education, which is not very difficult to do anyway. However, the residency requirement is an interesting one. I am hoping that they do not enforce that requirement to strictly considering that as of this moment, no caribb school, including SGU has a residency program of their own.

[Picard]

1) for "post graduate training" requirements... obviously the boards are not expecting foreign schools to sponsor/conduct post graduate/residency trainings in the US, under the auspice of ACGME because foreign schools are just that, foreign. What the boards are looking for are post graduate trainings sponsored by the foreign schools in their home countries, which is common practice for medical schools around the world. And this is why being physically located in the country of charter is important. Yes, SGU does sponsor post graduate training in Greneda. SGU graduates (especially the ones from the CaribCom countries) can do internship/residencies in Greneda General Hospital for Grenedian licensure. SGU has clinical faculty members in Greneda General hospital. And it conducts local CME's on regular basis in that hospital. This is how SGU (and other foreign schools) fulfill the post graduate training requirement. And this is the adventage of being in the country of charter. SGU actually have graduates doing post graduate trainings in Greneda, and graduates practice medicine in Greneda (another important thing to show the boards -- graduates must be eligible for licensure in the country of charter, and what better way to prove this than having graduates actually practice medicine in the country of charter.)

2) As for CME -- don't know for sure exactly what the boards require here -- local CME vs US/ACGME recognized CME. SGU has both.

Picard

[bts4202]

Congrats, I am glad SGU has that.