Liberian Medical School

Here is a school someone showed me...offers a 12 month MD degree online......

www.stluke.edu

The problem is as long as the World Health Organization authorizes literally any medical school that starts,the schools can advertise that the graduates are eligible to sit for EFCMG and USLME exams,though the reality is that the individual states probably won't accept the graduates for licensing.

Dr. Bear,I am the guy who wrote you a personal note. Someone needs to write an article about this because consumers are putting up their $20,000 or more thinking they are becoming MD's and they are just putting in alot of time and money to get the same worthless diplomas that the Dominican Republic and other diploma mills were 'selling' in the old days and you didn't even have to bother to do anything. Same results.

Consumer advocate

 

The St. Luke Medical School claims to have recently merged with the Southern Graduate Institute.

Here is a list of the members of the Board of Directors of the Southern Graduate Institute:

• Brenda Arnett M.D. (AM) - President
  
  Herbert W. Winstead M.D. D.M.D. - Vice-President
  
  Stephen Arnett M.D., N.M.D. - Secretary General
  
  Egbert Phipps M.D. (AM) - Chancellor
  
  David P.Burkart M.D. (AM) - Provost
  
  Thomas J. Mulvi M.D. Ph.D. N.M.D. - Dean of Alternative and Naturopathic Medicine
  
  Edwin Muniz M.D. N.M.D. Ph.D. Ed.D. M.D. (AM) - Chairman Department of Allopathic and Alternative Medicine
  
  Jerroll Bahruck Rudolph Dolphin M.D. - Chairman of the School of Medicine, International Division

And here is a list of the recent (March 22, 2002) graduates of the St. Luke School of Medicine:

• Brenda C. Arnett, M.D.
  
  Herbert W. Winstead, M.D.
  
  Stephen J. Arnett, M.D.
  
  Egbert G. Phipps, M.D.
  
  Thomas J. Mulvi, M.D.
  
  John E. Curran, M.D.
  
  Edwin Muniz, M.D.

Hey Jimmy! They stole your idea (except you only got a DSW out of the deal)!

 

naturopathic licensing from grads of these schools

Well,anyone who 'invests' in SGIS or St. Luke's Naturopathic degree will get an
unpleasant surprise when they approach the 11 (actually 12 since Ks signed last week) states for licensing. Washington DC will license home study naturopaths.but no other state will allow them to prescribe medicine or do chelation or the other questionable things that naturopaths do these days. Only grads of the 4 approved schools can get licenses. If you want to see something interesting go to www.yahoo.com and type in naturopath scope of practice and read how Oregon,Washington,Arizona allow naturopaths to prescribe medicines,including opiates from the formularies they have filed. Naturopaths are allowed to remove skin tags,stitch up wounds,etc. also.

 

And now, a year later, they are still active, and claiming to be a part of their 'parent' school, the A. M. Degliotti School of Medicine. A search for that name finds a hospital (I think) in Liberia, but no medical school.

The website is run from an address in Brandon, Florida (809 E. Bloomingdale, a mailbox rental store).

 

Re: naturopathic licensing from grads of these schools

Just for the record, Washington DC no longer licenses naturopaths but favors a much more minimal registration process. That is why they recognize mail order quacks, unlike other states that grant licenses to graduates of recognized institutions.

The downward hierarchy of medical professional formal practice rights tends to go from licensing to certification to registration.

 

My question is :

What if the person whit their degree wants to practice in another country?

Not all countries have licensing like in US.

Mikhail

 

Well, here's a real graduate of the real A.M.Dogliotti Med School at the real University of Liberia; note--not Degliotti, not St Luke's, not Florida. "St Luke's" appears to be a variant of the old "Cormell", "Stamford", etc., etc., gambit.


http://www.healthteam.msu.edu/providers/cv/Frank%20Kwasi%20Takyi%20resume.pdf

I've said it before in a polemical context, but it bears repeating here sine ira et studio: Cuttington College and the University of Liberia are legitimate educational institutions, though ravaged by the civil wars in Liberia. With all the hoolerei about dubious Liberian stuff--well and truly dubious--we need to recall that there are legit professionals with legit degrees from Liberia. This man in East Lansing (whom I do not know) worked at a real hospital in Gbarnga and at a real hospital in Lansing. There are many other Liberian professionals living as exiles or immigrants in the US. I do not for a moment suggest a relaxation of vigilance about fakery, but would urge a close look at claimed Liberian credentials because some are in fact real.