Congrats! Good luck with your interview!
I've been doing some reasearch about RCSI-MUB and come across some controversial articles. I'm wondering if you have also done some reasearch about the school and have any insight into this? Just want us all to be making a fully informed decision.
This article published by the Irish Medical Times, Oct 6, 2015 states, "A human rights NGO run by Irish lawyers has submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) that Ireland may be in breach of international law, owing to the Irish Medical Council’s (IMC) decision last December to grant RCSI-Medical University in Bahrain (RCSI-MUB) accreditation. This came amid alleged human rights abuses, including the torture of injured pro-demonstrators and medics who treated them, by the Gulf state’s ruling regime within the training hospitals it uses..."
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RCSI-Bahrain accreditation raised with the UNHCR
This one published by the BBC, May 30, 2013 gives a nice synopsis of what occurred during and leading up to the 2011 protests.
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Irish medical campus in Bahrain challenged - BBC News
This article also published in the Irish Medical Times, Feb 18, 2016 brings up some concerneing points about the IMC report on the Accreditation Inspection of RCSI-MUB which took place in Oct, 2014 "...The report deems the clinical facilities to be acceptable, not by a rigorous assessment of the hospitals, interviewing past pupils, patients and independent reports, but instead by relying on the ability of current students to speak out and exercise their freedom of speech, which has hitherto been so assiduously denied them...There is then the time given to the IMC visit — two working days to visit and interview personnel at the RCSI-Bahrain Medical School, the King Hamad University Hospital, and the Bahrain Defence Forces Hospital, and to assess the clinical facilities..."
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Freedoms at the heart of medical education
I think living overseas immersed in a different culture would be an amazing experience, but the controversy regarding allegations that the MCI may have ignored human rights and other abuses during the accreditation process which could be looked at as a violation of medical neutrality is concerning.
If anyone has thoughts, insights, further knowledge surrounding the current situation it would be much appreciated.