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UNIBE is a Medical School Located int he Dominican Republic, it's a regional school that is accredited by all boards in the US (allegedly).
Infrastructure- Don't even bother looking at their website, those nice classrooms they show you for med students? You will never use them, they only use them for Continuous Education courses, so that outsiders go and think the university is top notch. Or they're also use to give class to the business students, you know, the rich kids that will inherit Daddy's or Mommy's business. You will take class in the darkest and dingiest classrooms imaginable, they don't even have working air conditioners. Most students have had to buy portable fans trying to not die of a heatstroke (the rooms are not well ventilated on their own).
Classes- The expect you to take 12 hour classes with breaks up to the professors discretion, which in my experience could be 30 minutes or 10 minute breaks both of them are not enough time to grab something to eat because the 2 places to buy food are extremely slow (and the food quality is horrendous). Now all of this is IF the professor decides to show up, so they make you drive all the way to school (because classes are mandatory), so that 5 minutes before class begins thy send you an email that class is canceled or they send you nothing at all and since classes are 4-12 hours long you have to wait a LONG time before you can officially leave and it would not be a strike against you.
Professors- Now I have to say that not ALL professors are bad, a handful of them are quite good at what they do but the majority of them are just Alumni of the school that has never even practiced medicine, for example the School prodigal son (he gives 3-4 different classes) doesn't have a practice and his only rise to fame is that he did well on his Step 1 almost 8 years ago. One of the physiology professors even admitted to failing said class 4 times when he was in Med School and that's who you hire to give the class!? But wait, who gives class to the Dominican students? Anatomists, Surgeons, Specialists in each of the areas they teach.
Xenophobia- Besides the aforementioned disparities between the quality of classes, there is also the disdain in which the administration treats any and all issues with the "international" students. They lose records, give you incorrect grades that they refuse to change (even when you give them evidence), suspend you for no reasons at all and refuse to refund money for services they cancel on you. There have been entire classes that go and complain about X or Y professor and they LAUGH at you and tell you you're just a lazy student. They say Dominican students preform better that international students because they're smarter and not because they get actual classes with flexible schedules (they have more than 1 section they can choose from), well written exams and they are given more varied forms of evaluations. You want go ask about students complaints? They delete all evidence of it and will tell no one has ever complained about said issue or professor. There is a certain professor that has been historically failing students, entire classroom, and there have been MANY complaints, yet when you go and ask they say they have never heard such things before.
Accreditation - They just lost their federal loans, they have been lying about their stats for a while now knowing this was coming and then they blame the students when they don't allow time for you to study for the step and if you take a semester off to get back in you would have to re-apply for admission, which means they could reject you at anytime.
Infrastructure- Don't even bother looking at their website, those nice classrooms they show you for med students? You will never use them, they only use them for Continuous Education courses, so that outsiders go and think the university is top notch. Or they're also use to give class to the business students, you know, the rich kids that will inherit Daddy's or Mommy's business. You will take class in the darkest and dingiest classrooms imaginable, they don't even have working air conditioners. Most students have had to buy portable fans trying to not die of a heatstroke (the rooms are not well ventilated on their own).
Classes- The expect you to take 12 hour classes with breaks up to the professors discretion, which in my experience could be 30 minutes or 10 minute breaks both of them are not enough time to grab something to eat because the 2 places to buy food are extremely slow (and the food quality is horrendous). Now all of this is IF the professor decides to show up, so they make you drive all the way to school (because classes are mandatory), so that 5 minutes before class begins thy send you an email that class is canceled or they send you nothing at all and since classes are 4-12 hours long you have to wait a LONG time before you can officially leave and it would not be a strike against you.
Professors- Now I have to say that not ALL professors are bad, a handful of them are quite good at what they do but the majority of them are just Alumni of the school that has never even practiced medicine, for example the School prodigal son (he gives 3-4 different classes) doesn't have a practice and his only rise to fame is that he did well on his Step 1 almost 8 years ago. One of the physiology professors even admitted to failing said class 4 times when he was in Med School and that's who you hire to give the class!? But wait, who gives class to the Dominican students? Anatomists, Surgeons, Specialists in each of the areas they teach.
Xenophobia- Besides the aforementioned disparities between the quality of classes, there is also the disdain in which the administration treats any and all issues with the "international" students. They lose records, give you incorrect grades that they refuse to change (even when you give them evidence), suspend you for no reasons at all and refuse to refund money for services they cancel on you. There have been entire classes that go and complain about X or Y professor and they LAUGH at you and tell you you're just a lazy student. They say Dominican students preform better that international students because they're smarter and not because they get actual classes with flexible schedules (they have more than 1 section they can choose from), well written exams and they are given more varied forms of evaluations. You want go ask about students complaints? They delete all evidence of it and will tell no one has ever complained about said issue or professor. There is a certain professor that has been historically failing students, entire classroom, and there have been MANY complaints, yet when you go and ask they say they have never heard such things before.
Accreditation - They just lost their federal loans, they have been lying about their stats for a while now knowing this was coming and then they blame the students when they don't allow time for you to study for the step and if you take a semester off to get back in you would have to re-apply for admission, which means they could reject you at anytime.