UHSA-Antigua student-distance learning MD program

NOTE: Here is an article about someone who is in the non-traditional
program for chiropractors at UHSA-Antigua to get an MD degree. The student attends via
the computer, finds their own 'mentors' and does their own arranged
clnicals in hospitals or doctors offices and is required to spend at
least 1 week at the medical school itself (though most spend 8-12
weeks total on the island). The school apparently has no staff in the
US so you basically have unsupervised students running around in white
coats. see the school requirements at:

http://www.uhsa.ag/pstudent/dc/ntpath.htm

and then read about a student below

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Lifestyle/Health/03AccentHEAL01110204.htm

Nutritionist aims for medical degree

By MICHAEL HAUN
Staff Writer

Last update: November 02, 2004

Michael Epitropoulos is a hard man to catch up with these days.
But when you're chasing a dream, well, that's to be expected.

When he's not at his Flagler Beach office, the clinical nutritionist
is making rounds at one of several doctors' offices, trying to
complete his quest to become a physician himself.

"This has been something that has always been a dream of mine," he
said. "I feel blessed to be given a chance to fulfill this."

Epitropoulos, 48, has gone back to school, again. After working as a
chiropractor, then getting a Ph.D. in clinical nutrition, he's
shooting for one more degree, this time in medicine.

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"This is giving me the credibility I need to expand my field in
natural medicine," he said from his office at Atlantic Nutrition
Center. "We live in a very medical society, a pill for this, a pill
for that. But the body does have the capability to heal on its own."

Epitropoulos hopes to bridge the gap between the two fields, adding
that "natural medicine is to be used in addition to standard medicine,
not as a substitution."

He should finish up his degree from University of Health Sciences at
Antigua College of Medicine -- a university on the Caribbean isle that
offers accelerated courses for those with science backgrounds -- by
next August.

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