Second thoughts on going to XUSOM - Page 2

CheekyCaliCow · #11 (**permalink**) 12-21-2007, 12:09 AM

Couldn't have said it better myself!

Quote:

Originally Posted by immunologic

Would you marry someone, with whom you only chatted on the yahoo messenger?

Probably no! And the reasons would be
1)Dont know the person is a Man or a Woman....
2)Dont know if the person is old or young....
3)Dont know if the person is a criminal or not

etc etc etc.....

Now would you go to a Med School without researching?
Now would you go to a Med School based on ONLY inputs on a internet forum from strangers?
Now would you go to a Med School which you have not VISITED?

If you do, you will win the EXTREME CHAMPION RISK TAKER award of the millenium!

Your post betrays your lack of research , on a medical school where you will spending tons of money & years of your time.

Take a flight, see the school, talk to its students,its faculty,its administration,the locals(can be a huge source of pain and strength) face to face.....Good Luck!
Dont trust nobody with your future!!Nobody!!

finky25 · #12 (**permalink**) 12-21-2007, 06:07 AM

The school has major troubles,

65% of the students uses drug
the class ratio is 35:1
fights happen often on the campus
Lastly, administration are rude, lazy and unorganized.

IMG Reality · #13 (**permalink**) 12-21-2007, 11:03 PM

Finky, what campus are you referring to Aruba or Bonaire?

jasano · #14 (**permalink**) 12-22-2007, 01:59 PM

The major troubles you list for Xavier sound not unlike the major problems I have already born witness to at the colleges and universities I attended, (2 colleges, 2 universities), here in Canada:

drug use - what school/neighbourhood doesn't have this issue these days?
class ratio 35:1 - I've seen far, far worse. Try 50:1.
fights happen often on campus - ditto north american campuses - again, see general decline in morality as drug use above.
administration rude, lazy unorganized - again, this would be my assessment of every institution I attended. Some staff genuinely seek to help students and urge them to excel, but more often the case seems to be a minimization of effort by those who are just in it for a job.

I won't mention the colleges and universities I attended in order to make the above comparison, but suffice to say, you don't have to travel to the Caribbean to find the problems listed above.

khsyed · #15 (**permalink**) 12-26-2007, 06:13 PM

dont believe anything you read on here... if you want it, just go for it!

puneet · #16 (**permalink**) 01-07-2008, 08:23 PM

i've been debating this school now for a while also. the school is ECFMG approved it is listed on the IMED website. The school is WHO listed. The school does have loans unlike its sister school All Saints. It has rotations in Chicago. i do not know if they have New York or are still just working on it. They do not have California. The school is fairly young. if i do decide to come here i hope and hope and hope to god this does not has the fate like st. Chris in UK and loose all its accredidation over night.

i would love to hear some input from the graduates of this school. how they found it. and weather they are past step 1's yet or no.

DOCplucinski · #17 (**permalink**) 01-11-2008, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by puneet

i've been debating this school now for a while also. the school is ECFMG approved it is listed on the IMED website. The school is WHO listed. The school does have loans unlike its sister school All Saints. It has rotations in Chicago. i do not know if they have New York or are still just working on it. They do not have California. The school is fairly young. if i do decide to come here i hope and hope and hope to god this does not has the fate like st. Chris in UK and loose all its accredidation over night.

i would love to hear some input from the graduates of this school. how they found it. and weather they are past step 1's yet or no.

they do not have NY so i'd hold your breath with this school gaining NY approval or Ca for that matter any time within the next few years.

IMG Reality · #18 (**permalink**) 01-13-2008, 04:50 AM

Having NY approval is not so much a big deal even if you want to practice in that state. Their rules are:

Non-approved schools such as Xavier (as of now) in order to practice in NY you can't do >12 weeks of clinical rotations and can't do residency in NY if you want to be licensed there. The major problem with this is NY and CA are the two biggest states that offer residency programs to med students. So, if you limit these two states then chances of obtaining a competitive residency go way down.
If you do rotations in say.. Chicago and do residency in that state or any other than NY you can still be eligible for licensure in NY. CA is totally different and will not allow any student from a non-approved school to even do rotations there let alone do residency or obtain licensure.

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