Type Private, For-profit Number of students 5,560 Parent institution St. George's University | Established 1977 Founded 1977 | |
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Location St. George's, St. George, Grenada Website www.sgu.edu/school-of-medicine/ | ||
St. George's University School of Medicine is the medical school of St. George's University located at St. George's. The school is the oldest private medical school in the Caribbean and founded by Charles R. Modica on July 23, 1976. In 1983, the United States invaded Grenada after a military coup ousted government leaders and led to the evacuation of St. George’s medical students, many of who were U.S. citizens. As one of the largest medical schools in the Caribbean, the school placed more doctors into first-year US residency positions than any other medical school in the world between 2011 and 2012. It was rated by The Princeton Review as one of the "Best 168 Medical Schools"
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Mission
The mission of St. George's University Doctor of Medicine degree program is to "provide an international, culturally diverse environment in which students learn the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for postgraduate training in the health profession, while being inspired to develop compassion, curiosity, tolerance and commitment to patients and society, dedication to life-long learning and an understanding of the vital role of research in healthcare."
Admission
As with other Caribbean medical schools, St. George's admission criteria is more lenient. Accepted students had an average undergraduate G.P.A is 3.4 compared with 3.69 in the United States. The average score on the M.C.A.T. is 26, compared with 31 for schools in the United States. The school accepts about one of four applicants. However, this lenient admission standard has been criticized for admitting students that may take longer to or fail to complete their program. "A 2008 study in the journal Academic Medicine looked at 14 schools and found that the first-time pass rate on the exam ranged from 19 percent to 84 percent. Countries whose schools performed lowest were the Cayman Islands, Haiti, Cuba, Aruba, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda and, the lowest, St. Lucia, which hosted four medical schools at the time. High performers were in Jamaica, Barbados, Dominica and, the highest, Grenada."