Minister for Education, Petter Saint Jean, has entrusted the Dominica Medical Board with the task of forging a relationship between itself and the All Saints University School of Medicine as the school continues its accreditation process.
He was speaking at the University’s 31st White Coat Ceremony held on the school grounds Saturday, August 12th where forty-eight students received their cloak of completion.
The Education Minister said that as the school has grown from a mere “handful of students” to soaring past the one thousand student mark and increasing its role at an “impressive” rate, the Dominica Medical Board alongside other levels of authority directly involved should engage the school in producing “internationally accepted quality education and service” during their accreditation process.
He added that receiving accredited status will highlight the quality of the school’s service while giving benefit to the students in the search for licensed practice.
“It will also help to build confidence in the work of your institution,” he noted.
Saint Jean remarked that in the development of the institution, not only will the students receive benefits, but Dominica as well will have its fair share of the advantages, both economically and socially.
Meanwhile, Member of the Board of Trustees of the University, Dr. Clayton Shillingford, said that Dominica has received many benefits through the school’s initiatives such as its website.
He said that in addition to the students studying here to become Doctors, Dominica’s historical and cultural aspects gets a lot of attention through the website which is internationally accessible.
“The benefits in the arrangement between Dominica and All Saints, those benefits are mutual. The University provides, to Dominica, the opportunities for students to learn and to become Doctors and at the same time, because you have a website that is internationally accessible, that website has also promoted this island by citing on the website the various cultural, historical, and art activities on the island,” he remarked.
Correction; “Does he expect us to believe that he doesn’t know that accreditation of institutions of higher education is the responsibility of the national Accreditation board.”
Correction'”Does he expect us to believe that he doesn’t know that accreditation of institutions of higher learning is the responsibility of the National Accreditation Board”
So you mean to tell me that the minister does know that the Dominica Medical Board only registers trained doctors under the present laws and is not an accreditation body.
Does he expect us to believe that accreditation of instructions of higher learning is the responsibility of the National Accreditation Board.
What is the real nature of the specific task entrusted to the medical board.
Is all this part of the continuing strategy to compromise the independence of our institutions.
SMH!!
You mean that school not accredited? My God, that is the first thing we should demand before even granting them a license. How did they get established in the first place? Was it simply talking money again? I a very disturbed about this.
PS. I hear the school has many African students getting their citizenship here. Is that true or just a rumour. Nobody is telling us anything.
Ah….what the heck are you trying to say? You’d save us time reading by simply thinking first before you write.
PS: If any ‘AFRICAN’ students qualify for or meet the requirements for citizenship, what do you think should happen?