Offshore Medical Schools

By Alex Usher. One of the most interesting (to me, anyways) facets of international higher education is the phenomenon of international medical schools.
In North America, we associate these exclusively with medical schools in the Caribbean.  These mainly for-profit institutions have little research capacity and mainly teach students who are unable to get into mainstream domestic institution (they were most famously satirized in Doonesbury, when the famously dissolute Duke went to Port-au-Prince to open the Baby Doc School of Offshore Medicine in Port-au-Prince). More...