Medical School Programs

There seems to be no end in sight to the number of medical school programs springing-up on college campuses, universities, technical schools, and even high schools. Not coincidentally, the popularity of online medical programs is also expanding at a fantastic pace. For example, according to Petersons, there are 697 nursing schools in the United States. The states with the greatest number of nursing schools are Pennsylvania – 45, New York – 41, California-36, and Texas and Illinois each having 30. In comparison with the U.S., Canada only has 44 nursing schools. Of the 697 nursing schools in the U.S., these include technical schools, colleges, and universities. One of the best online resources for nursing students is the NSNA (National Student Nurses Association), with a membership of 50,000. Its mandate is to be actively involved in fostering mentoring for nursing school students, offer educational resources and information, provide career counseling, and make available leadership opportunities to its members. In conjunction with the NSNA, the FNSNA (Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association) serves as its charitable arm, offering scholarships to qualified and needy nursing students.

Sun, Sand and Medical School

It’s a cruel fact for would be medical students. Each year over 39,000 people apply for admission to a US medical school, but only about 47% are admitted. What do the remaining 53% do Well, instead of sitting around feeling sorry for themselves, a huge number are running away to an island…… and going to medical school. One vacationer’s beautiful tropical island is another student’s campus. Some are gaining as good a reputation as those in the United States.

In the late 1970′s Caribbean islands realizing that tourism can be fickle began to look for other streams of income. They hit upon the idea of medical schools, primarily for US students who were being shut out of medical schools in the United States. In a short time St Georges University in Grenada, (which benefitted from some unsuspecting exposure when the US invaded Grenada in 1983) Ross University on the island of Dominica and the American University of the Caribbean, originally on the island of Monserrat, opened their doors. They were and are extremely successful. In the years that followed it seemed a medical school opened on nearly every Caribbean island. The choice became as much about the quality of the education as what the island itself offered.