New Medical Schools and Accreditation Question

[LLCoolK]

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I'm currently looking at 2 new MD schools that have not received full accreditation yet. My question is, what would happen if these schools do not get full accreditation? Would graduates of these schools still be allowed to apply for residencies/become licensed? If the school loses accreditation, are the students just left without other options?

 

[hoihaie]

which schools?

 

[LLCoolK]

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[itsogre]

http://pacificunionrecorder.adventistfaith.org/issue/59/12/988

In 2011, San Juan Bautista in Puerto Rico lost its accreditation. The brief news article above talks about the situation of some MS3 students, and that they transferred to Loma Linda for clinicals.

“AAMC put up a website,” recalls Sarah Beck, also a junior, “with a list of schools that were willing to consider letting us transfer. We applied to every school we could. Loma Linda was the first to reply.”

“Then on Wednesday, Oct. 26, we learned that we had been accepted to LLUSM,” Perez adds. “We felt a great sense of relief!”

edit: also a few of the students transferred to Western University COMP (an osteopathic school). The story starts on page 8. Interesting!
http://www.westernu.edu/bin/communications/wu-view-winter-2013.pdf

 

[nwts]

CNU and Netter

It's kind of hard to say what would happen because I know San Juan Bautista lost accreditation, but they lost it after being fully accredited. I've never heard of a school getting provisional or preliminary accreditation and then not being fully accredited. This would be a new situation, so I'm not sure any of us can say with confidence what would happen.

Which year are you applying for? Are you an intended 2016 matriculant? 2017? I am a little hesitant about CNU, but that's just because no students have even started taking classes at their medical school yet, so we have absolutely nothing to go on in determining how good they are as a school. Since they received preliminary accreditation from LCME, it'd probably be fine, but I'm just not too keen on going to a school with absolutely no information about how they are as a school. As far as Netter, they had their first class start in fall of 2013, so they have been operating as an accredited school for 2 years. As far as I've heard, everything has gone smoothly so far. I wouldn't be too worried about them.

 

[vellez]

I interviewed and was accepted (but not attending) Netter. Netter is Quinnipiac's baby, they are doing everything they can to ensure their success.

 

[Goro]

For the DO schools, the policy is that students get to transfer to the other COMs. Seeing that this was done for SJB, it appears that LCME has a similar policy.

Netter's been around for 203 years, so they've had time to figure out what they' doing. CNU? That's a whole 'nuther can worms!

 

[Spector1]

http://pacificunionrecorder.adventistfaith.org/issue/59/12/988

In 2011, San Juan Bautista in Puerto Rico lost its accreditation. The brief news article above talks about the situation of some MS3 students, and that they transferred to Loma Linda for clinicals.

“AAMC put up a website,” recalls Sarah Beck, also a junior, “with a list of schools that were willing to consider letting us transfer. We applied to every school we could. Loma Linda was the first to reply.”

“Then on Wednesday, Oct. 26, we learned that we had been accepted to LLUSM,” Perez adds. “We felt a great sense of relief!”

edit: also a few of the students transferred to Western University COMP (an osteopathic school). The story starts on page 8. Interesting!
http://www.westernu.edu/bin/communications/wu-view-winter-2013.pdf

that sounds terrifying