Shelf Exams at Saba?

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daloonylin

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It seems that there is not much information out there from Saba students/alumni, so I was hoping to receive some insight about the shelf exams at Saba. Do a lot of students fail those and end up not being able to take the Step 1? How impossible are the exams/curriculum? Any feedback would help. Thanks!
 
To my knowledge, the Caribbean medical schools all have similar levels of difficulty in terms of coursework mainly because there isn't a particularly good faculty support system for the students. This (again, from what I have read) stems from the fact that they are largely for-profit schools. This is reportedly true at lower-key schools like SABA and at the Big Three alike. This also accounts largely for why a lot of students either drop out or do poorly on STEP 1 and 2.

Do not go Caribbean. You need to be a well-above average student there to succeed, and the lack of support at those schools makes it a more difficult goal to accomplish than it is at US schools. Plus with the number of residency spots staying relatively static as the number of matriculating medical students increases, a residency crunch is already happening and will only be considerably worse by the time you graduate in 2019.
 
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