UK Squatter Schools

[Waiting4Ganong]

Prospective students in the United Kingdom
Prospective students in the United Kingdom are advised to carefully check that the institution they are planning to study at is one of the 27 UK medical schools. Medical qualifications obtained from any other UK based institution are not recognised for registration with the GMC.

From http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/studying_medicine_at_undergraduate_level.asp (accessed 31st March 2006)

1. University of Aberdeen, School of Medicine
2. Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
3. University of Birmingham, School of Medicine
4. University of Bristol, Faculty of Medicine
5. Brighton and Sussex Medical School
6. University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
7. Cardiff University School of Medicine
8. University of Dundee, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing
9. University of Durham, Queens Campus, Stockton, Phase I Medicine
10. University of East Anglia
11. The University of Edinburgh, The Faculty of Medicine
12. University of Glasgow, Faculty of Medicine
13. The Guy's, King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals' Medical and Dental School of King's College London
14. Hull York Medical School
15. Imperial College School of Medicine, London
16. University of Keele, School of Medicine
17. University of Leeds, School of Medicine
18. Leicester Warwick Medical Schools
University of Leicester, Leicester Medical School
University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School
19. University of Liverpool, Faculty of Medicine
20. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
21. University of Manchester, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Nursing
22. University of Newcastle, The Medical School
23. The University of Nottingham, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
24. University of Oxford
25. Peninsula Medical School
26. The Queen's University Belfast, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
27. The University of Sheffield, School of Medicine
28. University of Southampton, School of Medicine
29. The University of St Andrews, Faculty of Medical Sciences
30. University of Swansea, Swansea Clinical School
31. St George's University of London
32. University College Medical School of University College London


List of 27 Approved Medical Schools+ 4 New Schools + 1 Preclinical Course.
From http://www.chms.ac.uk/schools/index.htm (accessed 31st March 2006).


This is a thread (as agreed with mods) for all discussion of squatter schools in the UK. Please do not post in the UK+Ireland Forum unless talking about real, approved schools (ie: in the UK the 32 listed above)

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[Waiting4Ganong]

Maybe Azsceptic would be good enough to give us an update on this topic. As I understand it St Chris has imploded and the (mainly American and Canadians who were rejected from their own medical training systems) students are now scrambling for options.

As a UK Medical student I'm happy this stain on UK clinical education has been removed but my heart goes out for the parents of these kids who have spent, or helped them borrow, 100,000s of dollars to giving them that second or third chance to "live the dream" of being a doctor.

The GMC has said it won't recognize their "degrees" but will these places still be able to operate on UK? The point of these businesses as I understood it was so little Johnny could say he was "going to Medical School in England" before he got that Family Practice or Internal Medicine Residency in the US.
While St Chris is no longer recognized by ECFMG what is to stop St Chris II (and III apparently) setting up shop and selling the same con? Stopping these places from operating as businesses is clearly beyond the remit of the GMC so do we need new legislation to tackle this issue? Should we be writing to our MPs?

I'm sure if someone sent up "Ivy League Medical School" Inc. of Boston then the authorities (and Harvard students themselves) would come down on them like a ton of bricks. There will always be those failed applicants with more resources than ability/capacity for hard work who are willing to pay through the nose for the "respect" of being mistakenly associated with a decent place and for an easy backdoor into medicine. Surely it is up to the authorities and real medical students to call out this activity when we see it?

Just my 2c.

As well as Azsceptic, I'd be interested in what other UK medical students think of this.

 

[Suhado]

hi, can anyone tell me how is dentistry at University of Warwick? I want to apply for MSc in dentistry there.