Thread: Why go to UHSA Antigua?

Your forum is almost 100% correct. 95% of those considering med school should not go to UHSA. When I went only about 25% of my classmates went on to residency. Also when I went in 1998 there were no on-line programs. I stayed on the Island most of the year. Most of my classes had fine professors and my passport was stamped for 90 days at a time. I had the option of staying on the Island for the entire semester in the traditional manner or leaving but only after I remained in lectures for the amount of time as required by traditional medical schools for each of my subjects. If you missed more than three days of lectures you had to repeat the class. I dissected fresh human cadavers with 4 students per body. If I left the island, I had to be in an office, with a licensed Doc, seeing patients, doing preclinicals. I had to document every patient I saw. I did all my core rotations at teaching hospitals along side U of M, Case Western, WSU, and many other prominent US med students. My state verified this at the time of my licensing. I am totally against on-line classes although many US med schools offer on-line course alternatives but that's ok, only outside the US is forbidden. As I said I'm against on-line med school but most of these UHSA students do not plan to practice medicine. They are oral surgeons, DDS, instructors, missionaries, nurses and PAs that just want an MD degree. Many do not even take USMLE boards! I believe many PA's, NP, Nurses, and a few other motivated health care professionals could complete on-line basic science courses, pass USMLE do teaching hospital rotations, and become exceptional physicians. Look at me, although I did nothing on-line, I was a Pa for 28 years, I worked in FP and spent years in a neurosurgery ICU. I passed step 1 & 2 with minimal study. I scored 65 percentile on my residency in service for the entire US. I didn't even open a book for that one. I am exceptionally rated on all my rotation evaluations. I'll have spent seven years and $200,000 dollars to do the same thing I did before I went to medical school. The average undergrad shouldn't go to UHSA but for students like me UHSA offers something you just can't get at any other med school. I agree they should have strict admission standards and they do not. I believe they should force students to attend live lectures on the Island like they did me but I believe that passing USMLE 1 & 2 no matter how (we all know you can't fake your way through step 1), doing US teaching rotations and a certain motivation with a past health care experience is a formula for a very competent resident. So please stop bashing UHSA Antigua and put it in the special category it deserves. Those bad students will self-destruct on their own!!

UHSA continues to embarrass itself by the junk it puts on its "official site"
Recently they stated that

"It is undoubtedly evident from some of the contributions of UHSA to medical education articulated above that the University of Health Sciences Antigua School of Medicine is becoming the mayo clinic of the Caribbean."




To assist with its illiteracy and ignorance of the facts, we post this website for thier general education

http://www.mayoclinic.org/

If any of these claims are made to applicants through US mail, I think it's techincally mail fraud. Perhaps we should forward this to the US Postal Inspector's office.

P

UHSA is having lots of trouble from all the reports Im recieving ---- AVOID IT


One of the things that happens when employers are evil and treat thier employees with terrorism is that formerly loyal employees become most disloyal.

Would you believe that this advice was given me by an UHSA employee?Believe it, because it is true.

. ----you guys be on UHSA like a hungry wolf...................spear none,

theres nothing worth salvaging here now----

don't let him rest on it (referring to AZ skeptic's campaign) ....

I think Bird hands are tied.. there may be some clause in the contract that does not give him power to do much.. since Bird wont close UHSA you guys must get the boards to..............

this article shows where the medical research in the carribean is done--- note that it is not at UHSA as they would want folk to believe


Caribbean Health Research – Common Sense & Evidence - Sunday 18, April-2004
by Prof Henry Fraser UWI-Cave Hill
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” – Ist Thessalonians 5:21
“To him who devotes his life to science, nothing can give more happiness than increasing the number of discoveries, but his cup of joy is full when the results of his studies immediately find practical applications.” – Louis Pasteur.
In the coming week in Grenada more than 200 Caribbean researchers – doctors, laboratory scientists, nurses and others – will meet to share the fruits of their labours over the last year or more. This is the biggest annual gathering of Caribbean doctors and health researchers. It will be the 49th annual scientific meeting of the Caribbean Health Research Council, better known as CHRC.
CHRC has evolved out of the Standing Advisory Committee for Medical Research in the British Caribbean (1956 – 72), which became the Commonwealth Caribbean Medical Research Council (CCMRC) (1972 – 98) when it became an entity of CARICOM, under the CARICOM multi-lateral agreement with core funding support from member countries.
In 1998 it evolved further into the Caribbean Health Research Council, reflecting both the political realities and the inclusiveness of the council’s goals, to bring broader perspectives, skills and approaches to the problems of Caribbean health and development.
The work of the CHRC has been increasingly important in promoting and stimulating priority research, funding “seed” projects, showcasing research results to the Caribbean health care community and providing a sounding board for the development of ideas and solutions to our health problems. It has moved from a small meeting of the dedicated cognoscenti, with some 30 or 40 papers, to a large, dynamic event, with 150 oral and poster papers.
Much of the credit for its dramatic growth must go to the legendary Professor ***** Picou, formerly professor of nutrition and director of the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit at the Mona Campus of the UWI in Jamaica.
A Trinidadian, Professor Picou entered university in New York to study architecture, but in 1949 he heard about the foundling University College of the West Indies and wisely and swiftly moved to Mona! After graduation in 1955, he pursued postgraduate training in paediatrics and nutrition, returning to Mona to work with Professor John Waterlow on the mysteries of metabolic dysfunction in malnutrition, then rife across the Caribbean.
His cutting-edge research, particularly on protein turnover, did much to establish the TMRU and
UWI as an international centre of excellence in medical research, and his achievements and publications are vast.
Barbados will be well represented in this meeting, with more than 30 papers from the School of Clinical Medicine and Research and the Chronic Disease Research Centre of the UWI, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Ladymeade Reference Unit. There will be papers on HIV/AIDS, including clinical and laboratory research, chronic diseases including stroke and hypertension, clinical research and health services research.
Of particular interest is a pair of papers by a team of Professor Mickey Walrond and Drs Jonnalaggada, Seetharaman and Moseley, on the knowledge attitudes and practices of doctors, nurses and medical students in relation to ethics and law in health care – an aspect of medical and health care practice of huge and growing importance.
Dr ***** Corbin, leader of the Barbados Register of Strokes (BROS), and Mrs Sonia Connell, senior public health sister with BROS, will present some of the new data on this large study, now ongoing for nearly three years; while Dr Vishal Poddar will be presenting an analysis of care and outcomes in patients with severe and resistant hypertension at the QEH. There will also be a number of state-of-the-art lectures by leading international speakers.
Two distinguished Caribbean doctors will also be honoured at this meeting – Professor Franklyn Prendergast and Professor Renn Holness. Professor Prendergast is a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar of 1969, who is one of the most brilliant researchers in the field of cancer today. He became director for research at the Mayo Clinic Rochester in 1989 and is director of the Mayo Cancer Centre.
Professor Holness, also Jamaican, is professor of neurosurgery at the University of Dalhousie in Halifax, Canada, and has been president of the Canadian Neurosurgical Society and chairman of the Canadian Examining Board in Neurosurgery. He has been a staunch supporter and benefactor of all of our UWI medical faculties and school, including a sabbatical period at the School of Medicine in Barbados, and a stint as director of the new Medical Teaching Unit in Nassau.
Health care professionals interested in attending the meeting but not yet registered can contact the CHRC Secretariat at chrc@trinidad.net or dtsimeon@tstt.net.tt quickly, or telephone 868-645-3769 on Monday morning.
l Professor Fraser is Dean of the School of Clinical Medicine and Research and Director of the Chronic Disease Research Centre, UWI.


http://www.nationnews.com/StoryView....2000%3A00%3A00

Does UHSA have any licensed grads in the US?

I think they do, from the old format, when they were more mainstream and from more recent history very few, maybe a handful literally speaking. There have been postings about it, can't remember how long ago.

As to why someone should attend UHSA, personal reasons I guess. Not the best choice though.

Originally Posted by ULTRON

Does UHSA have any licensed grads in the

US?

agreed with the above comments, there are far better alternatives,

I believe 5% of UHSA graduates match if any...

cheers,

I find the faculty video quite amusing.

What UHSAduck does not know is that those propaganda videos are required of all the visiting faculty for the three week crash programs.

I was actually videotaped for one.

In addition, my most educational and entertaining speach at the 2003 graduation was broadcast several times on Antiguan state television.

It should be obvious to all when you look at the front page of VMD for the las month or so, that UHSAdk monopolises the forum. I have never seen this in the five years of VMD's existence.

It should be clear to all that AUA and WINDSOR especially, must be giving uhsa such serious competition these days that UHSA has to stop to such blatant advertising and hogging of the forum by one person. It is not one or two threads but nearly every thread is infiltrated by this advertiser.

sorry repeat posts......

corrected by admin,

Ask catch the "Tiger by the tail" who it was that he asked to give the feature address at the January 2003 graduation, when the man whom he wanted to replace O O Dip as "Vice Chancellor" refused the job. This man was to give the speach. His wife gave out the diplomas.

Ask the ex chief of police if he didnt ask the speaker at the January 2003 graduation for a copy of the speach, which was based around the concept enunciated in 1 Cor 15:58.

Ask Mrs S she will tell you.

Ask Mrs S if the cafeteria was not opened arounf that time.

Ask Mrs S if the liittle hut at the end up the hill where the teachers used to stay was not renovated in February & March 2003 from 5 "studios" to 2 bigger units and another one.

Tell me is there a proper library yet with a librarian? Or is the library still filled with old books and magazines from pre 1980.