Hi,

i have been hearing very disturbing things about schools and safety in the Dominican Republic. Also have very mixed reviews on each shool. Could anyone suggest the best school to go to in the Dominican Republic? Thank you.

Well there is only 1 english teaching school and that is UNIBE. The others are all spanish teaching. Don't worry abt safety its jus abt being smart and not being in bad areas.

The Dominican Republic is a great place, it is quite safe, just gotta be a little smart and stay away from the rough neighborhoods ( as in any city). The people are mostly very nice and friendly. As far as medical school is concerned, only go to UNIBE if you don't have any other options. There are better Carribean medical schools, the ones that offer clinicals in US. All the best...........

The Dominican Republic has many medical schools. Of course, most of them are taught in spanish and some of the better ones are in spanish so it depends on what you are trying to accomplish.
UNIBE is probably one of the better English teaching one . UTESA is another english teaching medical school. http://www.utesa.edu/webutesa/home.htm.

As for Safety, learn much about the country from friends, staff and the university faculty before you go exploring on your own.

Hi Everybody

I wonder has anyone here on this forum been attended in this spanish language school called "UNIVERSITAD DEL ESTE" up in Dominican. Please if you guys have any information would help. I already talked to them, but I wanted to hear people who are over there, or anybody who knows about it.

l dont know much about that school. the only thing i found that it is not recognized by cali. and if thats the case then u should go to UNIBE. well thats my opinion and some might disagree. And if u already can handle spanish teaching schools then u might consider , intec, uce and unphu (all three recognized by cali and others).

thats all i know for schools in DR.
take care.
-vishu710

None of the schools in the dominican republic are a good choice, but if you are extremelly poor and can afford ROss or Granada go to Pontificia universidad catolica madre y maestra in santiago they just changed their curriculum to traditional system, not modular... It is a great city and the people in this part of the country are very friendly... JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE CLINICAL ROTATION IN THE STATES OR PUERTO RICO IF YOU ATTEND ANY MEDICAL SCHOOL IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. DON´T LET ANY SCHOOL ADVISOR FOOL YOU ITS ONLY ONE ROTATTION ACCORDING TO CONES LAWS!
uote=meddocpr]Hi,

i have been hearing very disturbing things about schools and safety in the Dominican Republic. Also have very mixed reviews on each shool. Could anyone suggest the best school to go to in the Dominican Republic? Thank you.[/quote]

Unibe´s english class are very badly taught and the profesors can hardly speak the language. if you are going to unibe attend the spanish classes which are a lot better taught! They charge the same. Most english professors don´t go to class and they shorten the material so they don´t have to speak the english language....

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