Commonwealth University College of Medicine - $18.5K (4 years total)

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  1. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    Commonwealth University College of Medicine - $18.5K if you get 50% off tuition (yes, the entire 4 years, not just 1 year)

    One time payment, you can get this for $37K flat for all 4 years as per their link: Commonwealth University College of Medicine | Saint Lucia Country in the Caribbean

    So, I was reviewing my previous list of Caribbean universities that have a medical school and came across a few newer ones that weren't on my list or ones I purposely didn't place on my list, but this one got me interested again in Caribbean Med Schools again. It's geared for Indian nationals, but will accept others as well...

    Here's a thread with 4 links to my other threads in regards to Med Schools: ACSOM - Caribbean Medical School (New!)
    Here's the spreadsheet that is referenced in some of the threads: Caribbean Med Schools - Google Sheets
     
    AsianStew, Jun 23, 2025
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  2. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    For those who want to be able to practice in North America, the variable with Caribbean medical schools is getting residencies. Longstanding institutions like St. George's and Ross and a few others are good at this. I would ask a lot of questions if I were considering a new school.
     
    SteveFoerster, Jun 23, 2025
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  3. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    I am not wowed. The " MD Program Curriculum " link is blank, while the Medical Education For The 21st Century link 404's. They list two teaching hospitals and 12 physicians as "affiliated." The two hospitals are Thorek Memorial Hospital and St. Bernard Hospital.

    Thorek doesn't show up on the match database at all, and their website includes this line on the search for a physician page: "Notice to Patients: Please be advised that the physicians treating you are not employees of Thorek Memorial Hospital. They are independent physicians who have been granted the privilege of providing medical care to their patients." This makes me doubt their are any residency spots at all there.

    Meanwhile, Bernard has just 8 Internal Medicine residency spots according to their website, and you'll be competing with the hundred(s) of graduates from all the Caribbean medical schools plus domestic ones, for those limited spots. There's a reason the "Big Four" (Ross, St George's, Saba, and AUC) are the big four: they've shown an ability to place students (despite some shenanigans with shelf exams used to artificially limit who can proceed to residency.)
     
    Dustin, Jun 23, 2025
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  4. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    And here's a competing medical school in Central/South America, it was even listed on the fees/scholarship page... Anyways, the pricing is very similar, but you're in a different country, plus the accreditation, recognition, quality, are always going to be subjective to criticism.

    Lincoln American University at $45K: Lincoln American University: Tuition Fee & Scholarship
     
    AsianStew, Jul 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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  5. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    I'm a little surprised that given their first admit was in 2017 that they have almost no internet presence, except for a deleted Reddit post indexed in Google that says "Lincoln American University is a fraud university that loots students in the name of providing them a foreign education." The same post shows up on Instagram. The other posts by that same user target a range of schools.
     

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    Dustin, Jul 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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  6. Dustin

    Dustin Well-Known Member

    Interestingly, all the links in my post and yours about this school now 404 except the homepage.

    Looks like they've launched a new website.
     
    Dustin, Jul 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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