You really need to talk to people who made it through Carib threshing machine into residency (like Skip Intro or mikkus) , and hear the story from them.
This guy kills me. The above makes me lose my faith in humanity. Why on earth do you only need to hear advice from a graduate only lol? Those are the last people you would want to ask because they will be biased because they freaking graduated from the damn school lol. Case in point look at this guy Skip who is a decade behind in this argument. Also, if you were to talk to a GRADUATE, don't you think that defeats the purpose of trashing the Caribbean in the first place if it is producing said GRADUATES? Beyond stupid and plain arrogant.
You can take the advice of Larry, Moe, and Curly but you're better off hearing it from someone like me who won't give you that BIAS and will tell it to you like it is. Besides, I was just there and I am going out of my way to report what my friends are showing me from other programs. For example, I shared that AUA only passed 20% of the first semester class last term. That's information you should know.
Remember, Caribbean medical education comes in two parts. Pre-clinical and clinical. If you make it to clinicals, you have to be stupid not to make it out. For everyone else, the problems start in basic sciences where you will either fail out of a grueling program or be unprepared for and take STEP1 and get a low score which will set you up for failure ahead. For my discussions, I limit them to the basic sciences portion as that is the biggest risk. If you're a B or B+ student out of basic sciences, I think you will match somewhere at some point if you go to some reputable school. Getting there is another story however.
Regarding the TameerSGU blog, that is the most stupid reading you can offer to someone. She clearly admits she failed because she slacked off. Well, she doesn't admit it; she actually whines about the school not being fair but it doesn't help her cause that she was so involved in extracurricular activities on campus that she flunked her classes. What about the people in her class that did not slack off? And this guy wants you to read that blog to knock a Caribbean school? Not very helpful if you ask me.
What I want a prospective Caribbean applicant to understand is that you need to work at a certain level at these schools. If you can do that, you very well can succeed. Additionally, I feel that if you are looking at becoming a doctor via the Caribbean, you really should only be considering SGU and absolutely nothing else.
The other guys just have diarrhea of the mouth.