OK, I get the WSJ delivered at home. (Don’t judge me. It was free.)
My take on the article–it has an agenda. It’s promoting oversea (primarily for-profit) medical schools as viable alternative to US schools.
It mentions only the pluses and none of negatives.
Re #5. That 85% match for Ross, St Georges, AUC is extremely misleading. It doesn’t considered that 35+% of students drop out rate before they get to point of applying to Match.
I had a problem with #5 too. I agree I felt the article was promoting high priced overseas medical schools. Still wouldn’t send a child to the Caribbean for med school. I know a lot of friends who have done that but I wouldn’t consider it.
Another reason NOT to go for Caribbean school. According to CBS news, the Bronx hospital shooting suspect (Dr. Bello) was a Ross graduate having a hard time to get licensed, had to work as pharm tech and NYC case worker.
According to New York State Education Department records, Bello graduated from Ross University and had a limited permit to practice as an international medical graduate to gain experience in order to be licensed. The permit was issued on July 1, 2014, and expired last year on the same day. Family medicine doctors handle more routine cases, such as coughs and sprained ankles.
Bello also worked as a pharmacy technician at Metropolitan hospital in Manhattan because he was having a hard time getting licensed as a physician, but quit the job in 2012 and filed for unemployment, according to the lawyer who represented him on appeal in 2014. He lost his case. One former colleague at Metropolitan said he would frequently argue with nurses and bristled at being told what to do, but his attorney in the unemployment action said that’s not the man he knew.
Are federal student loans taken out by students attending these foreign MD programs eligible for the government’s student loan repayment plans? For those that “strike out” in landing a residency spot or are underemployed, can’t they just enroll in IBR, etc. and stick it to the taxpayer?