persia said:Hi
i would like to study medicine in Santo Domingo, Do anyone know good university to recommed. any help would be great!
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
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.
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.
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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! ...
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*** ****, Foreign Schools Liaison, Medical Board of California
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
DIVISION OF LICENSING
RECOGNIZED CARIBBEAN/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEDICAL SCHOOLS
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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
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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
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.
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
THE GAME said: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?
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