Windsor Medical School?

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One of my friend is going to windsor md school next semester. He has had roughly two years of college/university about 90 hours and has most of the pre med classes completed.

The weird thing is that he told me that he does not need to take the MCAT to get into windsor at all, and the tuition is very cheap for the school compared to others.

What is up with windsor? Is this a legit school? Is it hard to get residency in the USA after you go to windsor?

Anyone been there have experince? (I know its under ten years old)
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Its not LCME and its not in the USA, so yes they will have a more difficult time.
 
Assuming your friend can pass his USMLE exam (and a large portion cannot with the subpar education offered at small carribean schools), he will be restricted almost exclusively to primary care family practice. There are no shortcuts and your friend may end up in a hundred thousand dollars in debt and no way to pay it back because he cannot get into a residency program.
 
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this is soo shady. Windsor doesn't even have a medical school. The only medical schools in Ontario are (Toronto, McMaster, Queens, Western, Ottawa, and Northern).
 
This school seems pretty shady. I wouldn't go there without having exhausted all options within the US first.

And after that I would pursue DO and then some of the bigger name Carib schools like St. Georges or Ross first.
 
Well I am split on becoming a MD or a dentist, I am still a freshman so i want to play my cards just right, i guess this is a good "worse case" senario.
 
No, the lottery is a good worst case scenario.
Your probability of success is an order of magnitude higher than if you tried making it out of Windsor and back to the states as an M.D.
 
While Family Practice physicians are lower on the hierarchy for salary, this may not be the case in the future. Note that primary care doctors in the UK make more than specialists and look at the directions our system is heading. Your friend however may not be able to get into any field including family practice which is one of the easier ones to get into now due to reimbursement issues...
 
Doctor D said:
While Family Practice physicians are lower on the hierarchy for salary, this may not be the case in the future. Note that primary care doctors in the UK make more than specialists and look at the directions our system is heading. Your friend however may not be able to get into any field including family practice which is one of the easier ones to get into now due to reimbursement issues...
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I was reading up and you have to take the USMLE, I read that if you get a low score (not fail), you are pretty much screwed because no one will accept you into residency?
 
woox said:
I was reading up and you have to take the USMLE, I read that if you get a low score (not fail), you are pretty much screwed because no one will accept you into residency?
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It will greatly restrict the choice of specialty/residency you get, no doubt. For your friend, if he goes to Windsor his options are already greatly limited b/c he would be coming from no name Carib school. If you're concerned about USMLE... well, let's say you should have other priorities to worry about at this point in your undergrad career lol...
 
stooges287 said:
It will greatly restrict the choice of specialty/residency you get, no doubt. For your friend, if he goes to Windsor his options are already greatly limited b/c he would be coming from no name Carib school. If you're concerned about USMLE... well, let's say you should have other priorities to worry about at this point in your undergrad career lol...
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Doesn't hurt to think ahead...I dont want to work all the way then figure out I just screwed my self. Want to play my cards right :)
 
woox said:
Doesn't hurt to think ahead...I dont want to work all the way then figure out I just screwed my self. Want to play my cards right :)
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Let me correct that. It can hurt to think ahead when it stops you from seeing what is right in front of you. It's definitely good to know where you are headed and on that point, you're doing well. I think you already have a a vague idea of what you might face in terms of residency, but I think that's really all you'll need for the time being. Your time will be much better spent having fun, doing well in school, getting involved in some great ECs and just having a full life. In your 3rd and 4th year if your grades aren't great and you didn't do as well as you might have hoped, then you can start looking into alternative options and how those options will affect your US residency options. :)
 
Just to clarify all these false response, Windsor DOES have a medical school. It is a satellite medical school and it is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. It IS fully accredited. When you graduate you recieve the same degree as if you finished at the London campus of the University of Western Ontario. All it basically is, is a division of the University of Western Ontario. So no, your friend won't have any trouble
 
aRnonymous said:
Just to clarify all these false response, Windsor DOES have a medical school. It is a satellite medical school and it is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. It IS fully accredited. When you graduate you recieve the same degree as if you finished at the London campus of the University of Western Ontario. All it basically is, is a division of the University of Western Ontario. So no, your friend won't have any trouble
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If this is the school:

http://www.windsor.edu/
http://www.windsor.edu/new_site/Accreditations.htm

it doesn't mention any affiliation with U. of Western Ontario and it isn't LCME accredited like U of Western Ontario (and other US/Canadian schools) are.


I'm not saying there isn't a Western Ontario satellite campus in Windsor, Canada... but this is clearly a Carib school.
 
The carribean Windsor school will not prepare you for your boards, and is more of a diploma mill than a real med school. Going carribean already puts you at a disadvantage because you are considered an FMG. However, if you go to one of the "Big 4", you will at least get a decent education and have a good shot at residency after graduation. Windsor not only suffers from the stigma of a carribean, but it doesn't prepare you for your boards. I spoke with someone who went there recently and she was very unhappy. She regrets choosing the school and wished she'd researched it. She said she had to self-teach almost everything on top of doing the extra legwork as an FMG for rotations and residencies.

My view is, you can either deal with the hassles of med school apps in the States now, or you'll deal with the hassles of studying for the boards or matching as an FMG later. Either way, becoming a licensed physician will require work.
 
Three of my close friends went to Windsor University School of Medicine in St.Kitts and while it was not perfect it was not a "diploma mill." Just like my school they had to pass their steps in order to proceed to the next semester and eventually get an MD degree.

All are in residency in IM or FM...nothing great but they are practicing doctors.

Personally I don't like any of the Caribbean medical schools...but I know its where a majority of FM and IM's will be coming from in the next few years.

NonTradMed said:
The carribean Windsor school will not prepare you for your boards, and is more of a diploma mill than a real med school.
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