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Template:Infobox University St. Matthew's University (SMU) is a medical university in Cayman Islands on the island of Grand Cayman in the British West Indies, and it includes the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine. The School of Medicine was originally established in Belize in 1997,[1] however moved to the Cayman Islands in 2002,[2] while the School of Veterinary medicine welcomed its charter class in the Fall of 2005.[citation needed]

Clerkships and licensing

St. Matthew's School of Medicine has been approved by the Education Department of New York[3], and the Florida Department of Education[4] for the purpose of completing clinical clerkships in these states.

Graduates of St. Matthew's School of Medicine are currently not able to be licensed as physicians in the following states:

  • California: As a result of a site visit[5] done by the Medical Board of California, SMU was officially disapproved for both training and licensure on February 18, 2005. [6]
  • Indiana: States SMU is disapproved as of December 5, 2002.[7]
  • Kansas: State regulations require "a graduate of a school which has been in operation for not less than 15 years and the graduates of which have been licensed in another state or states which has standards similar to Kansas." [8]
  • Texas: similarly placed SMU on their list of "Substandard or Fraudulent Institutions," and notes that attempting to use the degree to obtain a medical license is a Class B Misdemeanor in that state.[9]

Medical school curriculum

Basic sciences

Semester 1: Patient-Doctor Skills I, Embryology, Histology and Cell Biology, Bostatistics & Epidemiology, Gross Anatomy
Semester 2: Patient-Doctor Skills II, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Physiology
Semester 3: Patient-Doctor Skills III, Medical Microbiology I, Medical Pharmacology, Introduction to Psychiatry & Ethics, Pathology I
Semester 4: Patient-Doctor Skills IV, Genetics, Medical Microbiology II, Medical Pharmacology II, Pathology II[10]

Pre-clinical sciences

Clinical Therapeutics, Advanced Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine [11]

Clinical sciences

Core clerkships consist of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Family Practice, Psychiatry. [12]

External links

References and notes

  1. New York State Office of the Professions. "NYS Medicine Application Forms / Schools allowed to do more than 12 weeks of Clinical Clerkships in NYS". Retrieved 2006-07-27.
  2. Florida Department of Education. "Directory of Licensed Institutions" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-06-18.
  3. Medical Board of California. "St. Matthew's University Site Visit Report" (PDF). Retrieved 2006-08-27.
  4. Medical Board of California. "International Medical Schools Disapproved by the State of California". Retrieved 2006-08-27.
  5. Medical Licensing Board of Indiana. "Graduates of Foreign Medical Schools". Retrieved 2006-08-27.
  6. Kansas Board of Healing Arts. "Statues: Chapter 65.--PUBLIC HEALTH Article 28.--HEALING ARTS". Retrieved 2006-08-18. line feed character in |title= at position 36 (help)
  7. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. "Fraudulent or Substandard Institutions with No Known Texas Connection". Retrieved 2006-08-24.
  8. http://www.stmatthews.edu/med_curriculum_basic-science-curriculum.html
  9. http://www.stmatthews.edu/med_curriculum_basic-science-curriculum.html
  10. http://www.stmatthews.edu/med_curriculum_clinical-science-curriculum.html



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