medical school in santo domingo

persia

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i would like to study medicine in Santo Domingo, Do anyone know good university to recommed. any help would be great!
 

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It depends on whether you mean

Santo Domingo as a country-as is popular in Europe, or Santo Domingo as a city.

If the former, then the PUCMM in Santiago de los Caballeros offers a great medical curriculum: www.pucmmsti.edu.do

If the latter, then INTEC and Unphu, in Santo Domingo de Guzm?n, offer very good options.

But you have to speak read and write in Spanish.

If you want to buy your diploma you can go to the Utesa in Santo Domingo or UNIBE. They both teach in English.

Personally, if I saw a degree from either one of them on the wall, I'd run out of the office.

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persia said:
Hi
i would like to study medicine in Santo Domingo, Do anyone know good university to recommed. any help would be great!

Hello,
I studied medicine at PUCMM in santiago. If I had to do it over again I would go to UNIBE in santo Domingo. In my opinion the med school in santiago used to be very good. Today it's mediocre. Plus at UNIBE you can study in english and the curriculum is more like the american system.
 

alevozkan

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Medical school

If you want to buy your diploma you can go to the Utesa in Santo Domingo or UNIBE. They both teach in English.

Personally, if I saw a degree from either one of them on the wall, I'd run out of the office.

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My daughter is considering of studying Medicine at UNIBE. Although I did not visit the university yet but I heard that they are following US Curriculum and also accredited by US universities. I would appreciate some feed back.
Regards
Alev
 
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Hillbilly said:
Santo Domingo as a country-as is popular in Europe, or Santo Domingo as a city.

If the former, then the PUCMM in Santiago de los Caballeros offers a great medical curriculum: www.pucmmsti.edu.do

If the latter, then INTEC and Unphu, in Santo Domingo de Guzm?n, offer very good options.

But you have to speak read and write in Spanish.

If you want to buy your diploma you can go to the Utesa in Santo Domingo or UNIBE. They both teach in English.

Personally, if I saw a degree from either one of them on the wall, I'd run out of the office.

HB

As a PUCMM medical graduate I share HB's biases about legitimate schools in the DR. If you are serious about becoming a physician, then please go to a serious school. Your eventual patients deserve no less. Buying a medical diploma or knowingly accepting substandard training in such a delicate field is not a victimless crime.
- Tordok
 

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Contrary to the PUCMM which is not a private business, Unibe is a for profit university. This has its pros and cons and the management has to be doing things well because they are the fashionable university in the DR right now, at least for many careers.

Definitely one to check out. One of the main problems and criticisms their medical program may have with it teaching in English is how can you do the clinical part -- talk to patients -- if you do not know the language? Elsewise, they train physicians that plan to head back to English-speaking countries.

Of the programs, one that used to be excellent but today is hurting as are all the programs at the university, is the UNPHU. Because they lacked commercialism, this private university has lost all its impetus, contrary to Unibe.

I do not think PUCMM has a medical program in Santo Domingo, so you would have to study this subject in Santiago.

For some insights into studying medicine here, see http://dr1.com/living/education/7.shtml

Some of the emails on this page may have changed. If you are seriously considering studying medicine in the DR, you should make a site inspection to visit all the options prior to making up your mind.
 
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About INTEC:

California Board of Medical Quality Assurance:
INTEC is a sophisticated and highly innovative university, and its school of medicine equally so. The administration is equivalent to that in any of the smaller US universities, and the physical facilities are completely satisfactory. The library is excellent, and the University Librarian merits special commendation. The faculty are impressive professional educators, and their commitment to the pursuit of excellence is admirable. The curriculum is enviable: innovative, sophisticated, manifestly successful, and demanding. We recommend that this school and its curriculum be recognized as providing education equivalent to that required by Business and Professions Code Sections 2089 and 2089.5.

More on the same:
Response from California Licensure Office:

Dear Mr. *****: Thank you for your kind words. Per your request, attached is a copy of the list of Caribbean medical schools approved by the California Medical Board. This is the most up to date list that we have.

...

You asked if California has a process by which someone who attends an unapproved school may qualify for licensure in California. There is no such process! ...

...

*** ****, Foreign Schools Liaison, Medical Board of California

MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
DIVISION OF LICENSING



RECOGNIZED CARIBBEAN/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEDICAL SCHOOLS

...

Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
Central University of the East (UCE)
Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC)
National University of Pedro Henriquez Urena
Nordestana University
Mother and Master Catholic University

...

DISAPPROVED SCHOOLS

CETEC University, Santo Domingo (closed) - disapproved 5/19/83
CIFAS University, Santo Domingo (closed) - disapproved 11/16/84
UTESA University, Santo Domingo - disapproved 7/13/85; disapproval
order, modified 5/10/91; disapproved 2/7/97.
World University, Santo Domingo (closed) - disapproved 12/1/89
Universidad Eugenio Maria de Hostos (UNIREMHOS), Dom. Rep. -
(disapproved 11/1/96)
Universidad Federico Henriquez y Carvajal, Dom. Rep. - (disapproved
7/31/9

More...
 
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I am a first time user and an up-and-coming medical student at PUCMM. I am in the final preparations and have a few questions, naturally. I will start with one to see if this is working. What can I expect from the spanish exam and how could I mentally prepare myself? I do speak and read fine, writing could use improving though. Thanks for your time - Chris
 

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Send me a PM or an email

Basically, don't sweat it. You'll do fine.

Maybe you'll be in one of my classes in August!! HEHEHE

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Dolores said:
Contrary to the PUCMM which is not a private business, Unibe is a for profit university. This has its pros and cons and the management has to be doing things well because they are the fashionable university in the DR right now, at least for many careers.

Definitely one to check out. One of the main problems and criticisms their medical program may have with it teaching in English is how can you do the clinical part -- talk to patients -- if you do not know the language? Elsewise, they train physicians that plan to head back to English-speaking countries.

Of the programs, one that used to be excellent but today is hurting as are all the programs at the university, is the UNPHU. Because they lacked commercialism, this private university has lost all its impetus, contrary to Unibe.

I do not think PUCMM has a medical program in Santo Domingo, so you would have to study this subject in Santiago.

For some insights into studying medicine here, see http://dr1.com/living/education/7.shtml

Some of the emails on this page may have changed. If you are seriously considering studying medicine in the DR, you should make a site inspection to visit all the options prior to making up your mind.

i thought pucmm was a private univer... i know it's a catholic school.. but i thought it was private.

who can share light on this?
 

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Hillbilly said:
Santo Domingo as a country-as is popular in Europe, or Santo Domingo as a city.

If the former, then the PUCMM in Santiago de los Caballeros offers a great medical curriculum: www.pucmmsti.edu.do

If the latter, then INTEC and Unphu, in Santo Domingo de Guzm?n, offer very good options.

But you have to speak read and write in Spanish.

If you want to buy your diploma you can go to the Utesa in Santo Domingo or UNIBE. They both teach in English.

Personally, if I saw a degree from either one of them on the wall, I'd run out of the office.

HB

so it's true what i've been told that you can "buy" your way out and get a degree from private univers in dr?

from what i know utesa and unibe are both private.
 
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i thought pucmm was a private univer... i know it's a catholic school.. but i thought it was private.

who can share light on this?

I seize the opportunity to share light on this: that the only public university here is UASD. All others are private -private doesn't necessarily mean expensive-.
 

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Yes, PUCMM is private. I think the spirit of the comment was that it is not a for-profit institution, in the sense that UNIBE is.
 

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what about UASD med school in Santo Domingo?

One of my dominican friends is now halfway med school. She's from a poor family and therefore studying at UASD where she is getting excellent grades. She tells me that if you pick the good professors from the schedule, quality is really good. Due to the enormous amount of students at UASD, each subject is taught by several professors per trimester and you have to inform yourself with the more advanced students to know which ones are worthwhile choosing and attending and which ones are a waste of time.
She plans to specialize later on and says that UASD has got exchange programs with universities in Canada and Spain.
She gives me the impression that she knows what she is doing but can anyone tell me if her hopes are justified or if she is just waisting her time there at UASD?
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Bartolomeo67 said:
One of my dominican friends is now halfway med school. She's from a poor family and therefore studying at UASD where she is getting excellent grades. She tells me that if you pick the good professors from the schedule, quality is really good. Due to the enormous amount of students at UASD, each subject is taught by several professors per trimester and you have to inform yourself with the more advanced students to know which ones are worthwhile choosing and attending and which ones are a waste of time.
She plans to specialize later on and says that UASD has got exchange programs with universities in Canada and Spain.
She gives me the impression that she knows what she is doing but can anyone tell me if her hopes are justified or if she is just waisting her time there at UASD?
Bartolomeo

App UASD is on the list mentioned earlier as approvead by the Cal Board..
 

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UASD has a legitimate medical school. The problem is in its size and that the bureocracy can often be overwhelming for students trying to actually learn rather than just go through school. IMO, UASD medical grads will be as good or as bad as their individual talents will allow. In other words, attending UASD per se is not a predictor of individual professional mediocrity or success.

The problem is that many who attend that school are academically underqualified from even before they enter school yet somehow manage to finish (state-sponsored charity quota??), and this kind of stuff will ultimately reveal itself when trying to obtain good residency positions overseas. Bad candidates will be rejected, not because they are poor or went to UASD, but simply because many lack the skills to advance.

Bart, sounds like your friend does know what she is doing and she should be fine.

- Tordok
 

Dolores1

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There are plenty of excellent programs now available to graduate students, and the talented students of the UASD will be getting their share. To get a US medical internship, the student would have to pass all the tests and have good command of English, so that should eliminate most of the UASD students.

My sister is a doctor in the US and has always said that if she had a chance to study medicine all over again (going back in a time tunnel) she would have chosen the UASD. Why? The grads that first went abroad for the UASD opened all the right doors and the university's grads have a good reputation in the US. Students of the newer universities had to struggle and open their own doors -- such as my sister did with INTEC, from where she graduated.

On the positive side of Dominican training, she said that the major advantage Dominican medical graduates had was that they had received plenty of hands on experience, actually touching patients. They didn't know all the sophisticated tests, but they knew how to handle a patient.