Upcoming Radio Show on Offshore Medical Schools in England

If you want to know what time it is in London (or anywhere else) go to:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

This show will be on Sunday 11-6-05 at 11 a.m. England time You can hear it live at 3 a.m. Los Angeles time, 4 a.m. Phoenix/Denver time, 5 a.m. Dallas time or 6 a.m. New York time or you can wait and hear it on a file on this site. This site has a place where you can click to listen live.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/worricker.shtml

Coming up - Sunday 6th November - Quack Qualifications?
A loophole has allowed a massive boom in private medical schools which are unchecked and unregulated by UK authorities. An undercover investigation found two schools lying to prospective students who could pay tens of thousands of pounds in fees for a medical degree. Matthew Chapman reveals that the founder of a different school is an alleged college cheat and an administrator is a struck off doctor. Hundreds of students from this school get their medical experience in NHS hospitals, and one graduate is currently working as a surgeon, yet there are no official British checks on the quality of the school's teaching. Matthew Chapman investigates foreign medical schools operating in Britain.

 

Glad to hear about this story. It will add to the pressure resulting from last week's huge feature (complete with a map of the Caribbean showing where the entities are) in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

It is clear that ECFMG, the U.S. entity supposedly in charge of screening foreing medical schools, needs to be replaced or taken over by a government agency with some true screening and enforcement power.

 

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Turns out the BBC called and asked if I would go to a radio station so I am live on the show so those who listen will hear my voice (a tired one since it will be 4 a.m. in PHX)