Thread: SCIMD has NO approval outside of ECFMG

As someone who unfortunately formerly attended this institution and has attempted to restart all over at another American school a few years back. I feel compelled to warn others of the great peril they will find themselves in should they try to send their coursework done at this institution to outside agencies for evaluation for credit if trying to obtain a research job or some fellowships.

If you wish to transfer or get credit of any kind for work done at St. Chris IMD, all U.S. schools will steer you towards:

a. the U.S. Dept. of Education website here:

Recognition of Foreign Qualifications

b. if you are applying for any type of research job at U.S. govt. labs such as the NIH, FDA, etc. they will say something like this:

Permanent U.S. residents can apply for Staff Fellowship appointments as physicians, scientists, or mathematical statisticians. Graduates of foreign college or universities must provide proof of U.S. education equivalency certification. Staff Fellowships provide the employment and development of promising research/regulatory review scientists by providing the opportunity to accelerate and enhance scientists’ careers through close associations with leading authorities in health-related research.

In many many cases, an ECFMG certificate is NOT enough (I was told this by someone at a U.S. govt. lab in Bethesda, MD).

They will then steer you towards this site:

NACES - the National Association of Credit Evaluation Services

the private evaluators of foreign education are listed here.

I submitted work done at st chris IMD to 2 of the above services, for the purpose of getting credit for transfer and a research job:

• World Education Services - based out of NY
• International Education Research Foundation (IERF) - Culver City, CA and the chair of NACES

In both cases BOTH agencies said they contacted numerous licensing and accrediting bodies - the GMC, the Senegal embassy, the state of NY, and others and all told them that this school is simply a "diploma mill" that exists in a loophole of the law and that NO type of credit of any kind can therefore be given for St. Chris coursework. When you are trying to transfer credit for work done at St. Chris or applying for a hypercompetitive research job at a U.S. govt lab, this school and any kind of work done at it, will kill your application.

Had PL or FS had any kind of integrity when they allegedly ran this school, they could have done their level best to ensure that those students who wanted to go somewhere else after a few semesters or to apply for research or felllowships would have at least had a chance. Simply doing the right thing by getting the school accredited by some outside govt. authority or private agency would go a long LONG way towards helping former students (and I presume graduates) as well.

I know I will be attacked for this post, but I felt it my duty to warn others based on my own unfortunate experience.

KR

After paying for 4 evaluations, taking legal action against one, and contacting about 2 dozen others, I found an evaluation company that will verify our diplomas. The evaluations were accepted for post doctoral research at my local medical school (Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.)

If at first you dont succeed, try try again.

congrats... if you don't want to share which one it is in public.. I'd appreciate you sending it to me on PM so that I can share with the rest of the admin should other students need the same.

Thanks

SCIMD official, what is your phone number? I'd like to talk.

@Gambino, have you passed your steps yet?

What is the name of the company?

If there is any administrator on here from the entity known as SCIMD please call me at 9165853625 or email me at luke 2 4 2 4 @ gmail . com I have been emailing various people in regards to obtaining a transcript from your institution for the past year. Yes that is correct a year and to no resolution. I have not had multiple emails answered. I was given incorrect mailing addressed and now Im being told that 4 of my letters sent to your institution were not received. As of latest my last 4 emails were not answered as I have sent them to every email known to me for your institution and administration.

If you would like I can copy and paste the whole email thread for the past year.

I have provided my email and phone number above and am not hiding. Please contact me or email me your contact information and I will be glad to contact you back.

To all others on this website I would ask you to consider other avenues before getting involved in joining this or any other foreign institution.

Thank you.

send me a pm with your name, year graduated, which campus you attended and I will try to help you out.