St Lucia medical school under fire

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

HARTFORD, USA: In a recent two-part series, the Hartford Courant disclosed that nearly 900 doctors in the US studied at foreign medical schools so deficient that their graduates are banned in several states. One extreme example, according to the report, is Spartan Health Sciences University in St. Lucia, whose students are banned in six states

Spartan reportedly accepts American students unqualified to be admitted to U.S. medical schools, even if they have not graduated from college or taken the standard medical school entrance examination. 

Although these poorly trained future doctors can practice their skills on patients in other states in the U.S., they cannot do so on St. Lucia. That's because the island's government considers Spartan so lacking that it bars students from training at St. Lucia hospitals or practicing on the island upon graduation.

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