That is a good question. Unlike other unnamed start up medical schools in the last few years - these people did the leg work and got funded first.

However, until they get IMED - they are on probation on the forum. If we see we have an issue like several other ones. They will be locked and lost. See Doc's post about this.

http://www.valuemd.com/trinity-unive...tml#post769065

We will be heavily moderating this forum until then and any trolls - cheerleaders - trouble makers that don't post within the (TOS) Terms of Service of valuemd will be infracted.

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I do not think allowing one school not IMED yet have a forum and yet not another is a good idea.

IMHO all schools must have at least IMED and ECMFG before getting their own forum.

WIthout IMED listing then it is a completely unrecognized school in the USA

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WIthout IMED listing then it is a completely unrecognized school in the USA

Last time I checked, there were so many other countries in the world besides the USA

It seems too, that students are coming to offshore schools from countries in the world.....because they want to practice in thier own countries.

When I went to medical school I did not give two hoots if my school was recognised in the USA, cause I had and still have no interest in practicing in the USA.

I off course, went to a very good school that is indeed recognised in the USA in all fifty states.

I am sure that there are many medical students in many other good schools that do not care if their school is recognised in the USA.... like Cambridge and Oxford and Dundee and Edinburgh and St Barts etc. real good schools

I hope thast Trinity will be IMED listed soon and that this school and UMHS will squeeze the life blood out of, and thus close schools like All Saints Xavier SJMS St Theresa Windsor IUA and others of that ilk!

What we need is a few good big schools that are "completely recognized schools in the USA."

LOL All the legit Schools around the world are on the IMED list, this is standard, IMED is the list as WHO once was. WHY would US students go to medical school to practice elsewhere and make less then what a walmart manager does?

Also you do not have to take a shot at other schools every time, it gets old.

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The point that I so eruditely made is that there were many other countries in the world besides the USA and that m ore students are currently coming to Caribbean offshore schools from other countries in the world.....who want to practice in their own countries. This forum does not exist for US students but for MEDICAL STUDENTS! Hence your point “WIthout IMED listing then it is a completely unrecognized school in the USA” is moot. Who cares? Only US students.

So to many folk currently using this forum they do not care if their school is a recognized school in the USA or not! Not everyone desires to live between Alaska and the Florida Keys. To many their homelands are their haven and their heaven!

I learned about IMED listing almost 30 years AFTER I went to medical school. You see folk who go to their country’s medical school don’t know or need to know or care about IMED listing. They just go to school. And much better schools than most of the offshore Caribbean schools.

With respect to WHY would US students go to medical school to practice elsewhere and make less then what a walmart manager does?

Again I did not address the issue of US students going to medical school, cause that is not my focus. However, I know many doctors who practice medicine in other parts of the world and are paid much less than “what a walmart manager does” and who live very wholesome, fruitful and satisfied lives, and are well respected, loved and known in their countries. You see, money is not all. Many of us who went to medical school did not go so as to make loads of money.

I know a US trained Dr that works in the polyclinic system in Barbados since 1985. He is very happy there. And he is probably paid much less than “what a walmart manager does .” Know what? He is having a ball in Bim!

Re Also you do not have to take a shot at other schools every time, it gets old.
To you - but not to me! Quid dixi scripsique, Quid dixi scripsique, Steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work knowing that my labor is not in vain. You see in time some real accreditation body will come into being that cares about standards. One day it will be fixed, and we will have standards.

Cough Cough

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OK fine then what standards does this school have? I have not seen any to date? Not listed by anyone and no proven charter?

So originally I posted it should not have a forum due to no IMED since it is a ValueMD standard.

You just posted a "Standards post" This school does not meet it.

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Yes Sir! Those are REAL fairly universal standards that one can relate to, when one considers the numbers of countries in the Commonwealth. LOL

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OK fine then what standards does this school have? I have not seen any to date? Not listed by anyone and no proven charter?

Run up and bowl again. That was a rank long hop!
What you have seen does not really matter.
It was written clearly in the St Vincent papers thatDr R G…………. the duly elected PM of St Vincent and the Grenadines has given Trinity a proven charter. That makes the charter valid and creditable to me. I KNOW RG! One expects that in due course that the school will be IMED listed……….and even listed in the Yellow Pages and the Telephone book and ad infinitum and ad nauseam. So what?

Unlike CMU and JBGDL, Trinity actually has a proven charter!

Moderator James Lynton wrote in clear English for those who read and understand English well, thatwith respect to Trinity “until they get IMED - they are on probation on the forum.”

So they have also met a VMD standard for being listed on VMD!

Seems to me that VMD has the right to set and change their standards, just as the so many schools listed on VMD that supposedly have a charter and are IMED listed, but yet have set very poor standards, compared to the standards set by real medical schools around the world (including the US) , in terms of facilities, faculty , scholarship, research, participation in the health delivery services of their hosts etc..

Having been to a school of excellence and an excellent school that demonstrates these things, I think I have just a little idea about what I am saying.

This is what happens when moderators feel the need to have different rules for different schools. If you don't have IMED you shouldn't have a forum on VMD. Why did a moderator feel a need for this special dispensation for TUSM?

Got a link for the St. Vincent paper? Thanks.