Dominica’s newest university, the American Canadian School of Medicine, has welcomed its 2023 cohort of nine students from around the world, marking the start of classes at their institution.
The distinguished white coat ceremony, conducted on August 13 at the recently opened Picard Portsmouth campus-the former home of Ross University-officially initiated the students’ transformative journey into the field of medicine.
ACSOM President Casey James stated during his address that the institution has embarked on a mission to provide an outstanding medical education experience to these students and those who will follow.
According to him, the vision of the school, which has been established as a private, nonprofit entity with a strong social commitment, extends beyond producing exceptional physicians; it aspires to elevate healthcare standards within Dominica and beyond.
“For decades, Dominica has proven to be an exceptional location for medical education,” James stated. “Dominica’s healthcare system has provided medical students with many of their first and most impactful experiences as student learners.”
The President went on to express gratitude to the Dominican government, whose participation and support were instrumental in the realisation of ACSOM.
He further stated that the relationship between ACSOM and the Dominican government reflects a common commitment to improve healthcare.
“It bridges resources for our shared mission for advancing health care,” he stated. James went on to say that ACSOM’s accreditations from internationally recognised agencies IAR and ACCM demonstrate its commitment to sustaining excellent educational standards.
As president of the institution, he assured the inaugural class that their education and experiences at the institution would be second to none.
For his part, Dean of ACSOM Dr. Ramin Ahmadi, M.D., noted that the institution was built upon the bedrock of collaboration, bringing together the finest minds in academia, and the dedication of a faculty that was trained for several years to deliver this unique and modern curriculum.
He stressed that this combination fosters a student-centered environment where innovation flourishes and where the practice of medicine is elevated to an art that transcends science.
“As you step into this beautiful campus, you become part of a legacy that stretches back through time, an unbroken chain of healers, pioneers, and advocates of human wellness. But remember, you’re not merely inheritors of this legacy. You are its torchbearers,” he told the new class.
“It’s your responsibility to add your chapters to this ever-evolving story, to push the boundaries of medical knowledge, and to redefine the limits of compassionate care,” Dr Ahmadi added.
Con:
Just like all of the American operating colleges around the Caribbean, from Grenada which was one of the first to St. Kitts you can’t study on those islands, and return to America, or Canada, and simple go into practices.
First the Student from Dominica must as it is mandatory to do their Intern in some medical institution (hospital) in the U.S, then they have to do a medical test (examination) based on an American medical curriculum!
That means the curriculum used in Dominica must be American! So, this crap he is talking about “Dominica’s healthcare system has provided medical students with many of their first and most impactful experiences as student learners.”
That’s hogwash, political nonsensical garbage; there was a time when Ross try to have students go to Princess Margret hospital as observers as students do, as I have done, that did not even work, for the lack of medical equipment, and simple things as petri-dish used for cultures of bacteria.
I don’t understand why someone would talk such bull!
““For decades, Dominica has proven to be an exceptional location for medical education,” James stated. “Dominica’s healthcare system has provided medical students with many of their first and most impactful experiences as student learners.”
Robbish, in the first place if that was true; why on earth a hundred percent of Dominican doctors were trained in Europe in the colonial days when Dominica was a colony of Britian? and with the advent of the University of West Indies, they were trained in Jamaica?
That bull according James is nothing more than political propaganda. In the first place prior to Ross, medicine was not taught in Dominica, we are only focusing on Ross 40 years in Dominica: That sucker lying forgot that Ross University is still considered a foreign institution, and though the students studied in Dominica, they had to do Intern in America, and pass the medical test in the state in the United States:
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What’s the point of exaggerating it by saying you started with nine (9) students from around the world, when there are one (195) hundred-ninety-five known countries in this universe?
If they came from around world you should have no less than 195 students on the first day of class.
And this talk about nonprofit is a lie, private colleges and universities are a business people go into to make money!
That’s what you people hope for, tell it as it, you are in it for the money.
Congratulations
We pray for God Almighty to bless this school
Well there we go Armour, you made it abundantly clear which way your bread is buttered. Am I surprised? No, not a bit. All you guys will answer one day!
Fitzroy, you should be praying to God to bless you rather than some school!
Always remember if a thing is of God, it shall prevail, if it is not of God, it will destroy itself.
If it is the will of God for the school to be successful it will be successful, if not all your praying or prayers will not help!
And by the way what’s your interest in that?
@Putin
What i do realise is that you have difficulty in reading as well.
Thats all I can say some Dominicans have a lot of nerve you all turning into axxhole
These people are all mentally deranged Ugly Lenny, has been feedings them too many zombie drugs over the years it turns the lot of them stupid to imagine,
With my quality of life why should I mingle with low life bunch of disgusting blue monkeys that is on drugs and alcohol. One thing I do know workers petty nasty clowns will never win another general election in Dominica again regardless of what they say or do we are ready like sleeping giants.
Don’t be too stupid and silly. The school has just begun. As the school years go by and at the same time there is an increase in awareness of the new medical school in Dominica, enrollment will increase substantially. What is the hurry, young lady? Stop playing politics on this medium,your UWP………
Go back to history,the same way you posting BS tell Dominicansa how Ross started and where.Ross left all you blue baboons celebrated and rejoiced,just as you shameless aholes did after Maria.A new medical school has taken over all the blues,blue vex
An university with nine (9) students. A new dismal record. The dance can’t pay for the lights. Are these professors going to work for minimum wage or for free?
What will you say then when enrollment jumps to 300? Still dismal or abysmal? You are really the boom boom fly of the useless UWP party.
It’s just the beginning of the program as time goes by enrollment will increase it is up to us to put the school on the market as Dominicans and hopefully Dominicans will receive reduced fee or free education as an incentive to having the School in the ciuntry
Where you learn your english from? a university not an university..
Can’t believe how shallow politics have brought us. Additionally, social media role words of stupidity and irrational thought continues to destroy the very core of our people within our fledgling Caribbean Islands.
Shouldn’t we instead collectively call on our elected and selected representatives to pull the Caribbean together under one single airspace, one currency, one passport, one set of duties or tarrif, one economy?
Aren’t we tired of paying airfares to islands that are ‘two’ miles away at cost of tickets to UK, Canada and the US?
Shouldn’t we instead be critical of bad treatment metted out to Guyanese, Haitians and Jamiaicans at entry points like Barbados, Trinidad, Antigua, etc? These are our Caribbean people too!
Isn’t it time we demand our so called governments to accounts for billions in loans and grants given or borrowed where we as citizens continue to drive on bad roads, dilapidated schools, worsened health care, poor water management and lack of…
Skerrit rejected Ross University after 40 yrs on island, with over 1100 students, over 100 local employees, that provided an income for over 200 nationals and contributed over 30% of our GDP . 7 years later the man came with a so called medical school with only Nine so called students and those doltish Domi-in-cans are praising him. Boy this kind of thing happened under DFP, UWP or even a Rosie Douglas led DLP there would be war in Dominica until that kind of careless and wicked government is removed. Yet, Skerrit got rid of Ross and gave it to Mia Morley in Barbados and those doltish praising him just as he took an international airport from us and gave it to Gonsalves in St Vincent and those doltish applauded him. Boy can’t you all see something is drastically wrong with us in this Dom-in-a- can
Quite right. I don’t know what’s wrong with some of our citizens. I really don’t. They are as blind as bats.
Just like pete-pit pata-pit.
” Something is drastically wrong with us in this Dominica ” You are quite right I agree something is wrong with you lots scumbags so-called UWPettya**holes
hmmm, was not aware of some of your stated allegations, but if factual, they are mind-boggling.
🤌🏿😫😂🤣
SMDH
Of course they are not factual…just highly ridiculous.. as usual
These guys act as if the government had some kind of controlling interest in Ross and could ‘get rid’ or keep the university as we liked.They act like Hurricane Maria NEVER happened… a hurricane so bad that 6 years later Puerto Rico still has not yet recovered. They act like Barbados is not exponentially less risky than Waitukubuli.. they act like the evacuation of Ross students after Maria was not an unbudgeted US$10M exercise that was at risk of being repeated annually. So now a replacement investor has been found to occupy the site. Again they act as if any investor would invest millions into a business to educate only 9 students… Factual you say? There are many faux Pas to lay at the door of the government but if the wrong targets are continually chosen (electoral reform, skerirt passport, Monfated, Ross, botanical gardens to name a few) they will never be removed. Take heed.
The entire Caribbean islands are vulnerable to hurricanes, even Barbados; you do not know the history of hurricanes in the Caribbean, but hurricanes in the past has devastated Barbados worst than Dominica.
it’s only a matter of time Barbados will get hit again!
And if the owners of Ross ran from Dominica because of hurricane, how come they deal with tornadoes which are winds that blows at higher velocities across the United States, that’s an everyday thing and not annual; what about the flooding, even in Florida yesterday; we are in Summer; and what about fires we deal with in California?
An earthquake shakes somewhere in California everyday, some so slight they are only detected on the Richter scale.
New Jersey, and New York are at the edge of the Caribbean gets hit by hurricane all the time; and don’t compare Puerto Rico with Dominica.
Ross left because of Roosevelt Skerrit lies, about building International Airport for years to Ross and could not deliver!
Well, Roosevelt Skerrit did not reject Ross University School of Medicine: Ross left because of Roosevelt continuous lying to Roos, and among other things the building of an International Airport which be the last straw that broke the camel back.
When that foolish boy went out and said he was going to clear the land for a Run Way, and Weld four metal cargo containers together to accommodate arriving passengers as a terminal.
Ross simply packed up and headed to Barbados.
There is nothing wrong starting with nine students.
Dr. Ross started his university in Roseau with one (1) student, and it grew to what it became, so this can grow also.
What I detest is people who lie!
Stating that nine students came from all over the world is a lie; compounded with the lie that they operating as a nonprofit institution.
You and Ronald will watch the STARBOY stay there for another five years doh
#toofay
It is interesting how those who spent months tryin to convince Dominicans that Skerrit is “lying,” that there will be no new school, are now mostly silent; just mostly.
All of you fake Dominicans, we should deprive you of your citizenship or ban you from returning, if you reside overseas.
@Putin
Lying about is not he got rid of Ross? If it’s not he is who. The shameless liar is more destructive than a hurricane. ROSS had 40 long years on island, providing employment for numerous people….A chief liar says he has replaced it with a school of 9 students.
This guy has earned the name
STARBOY OF STUPIDITY and BUFFOONERY according to MEME .
You do realize that it is the Starboy and his team who successfully negotiated this school’s presence in Dominica, do you? Now, DAT is Starboy for you. Toofay!
I keep echoing that the more literate some of you people are it is the more you talk.
Here you are suggesting that people are fake: My birth name is Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque.
If you go into Wesley right now and ask if anybody know that name, someone in their sixties will remember me; if you say he is also called “Son” and, add Son Fu Ma John, it is almost impossible that you will not find an older person remembering.
There were only two people called Son in the village the other person biological name is James Hawkins, still alive, if they do not know him by his name, say they called him ” the Rebble” they will know him too.
You call yourself Putin, isn’t that a stupid fake name?
I dare you to write something, anything using you correct name; you can’t because you are just another yard foul, a lap dog of Roosevelt Skerrit, and a liar like him!
Don’t be too happy about that school; start running your mouth if it stands for five years, or more!
Ross…
Congratulations. And all the very best as you move forward with your new school. May the good Lord continue to bless your efforts.
We like it so….
Is this the replacement university for RUSM that the habitual LIAR kept boasting about? Nine students at any learning institution is a colossal waste of resources. Is the corrupt administration prepared to subsidise this venture?
One man let a forty year old institution that generated 33% of the country’s revenue for something that will operate at a monumental loss. He truly fits the sobriquet as Star Boy of Stupidity.
All these years since Ross left and this is the best Skerrit can come up with? Never mind all the corruption, the man is a national embarrassment.
Stop playing politics, Winston. We hear you loud and clear. Don’t be an as.hole like the others. What are your contributions towards the development of Dominica? Beggars are no choosers, boy. Be quiet.
I have asked YOU so many times before, what are YOUR contributions? So far we haven’t got an answer. You are one useless piece of work!
You don’t know me, dipsh…
The vocabulary of the most uneducated people are always riddled with profanities, as those found in the garbage that especially you ds, Lin clown, and Man-dog writes!
Your language, and vocabulary are that of illiterate peasants of which you three are limited!
Not even slaves in bondage more than four hundred years prior to emancipation conducted themselves the way you do. It is said only ignorant people uses profanities to express themselves.
People who can’t read or write and do not know any better!
And because one can barley read and scribble does not mean they are not illiterate!
Every profanity you use to define the supporters of the UWP; pertains to you three, whom I am convinced never went beyond stage II in elementary during the colonial days; now identified as “grade ll!
Your literacy pops out in your every submission.
Nine?! NINE?! What is this nonsense, nah? There were more than nine people in my seminar group at Uni. That’s a joke man. And if Dominicans swallow this nonsense from Skerrit there really is no hope for the country.
Don’t despise the small beginnings don’t be surprise it can surpass ROSS. We have to stop looking at the review mirror and instead give God thanks for birthing this school. They can produce the best doctors. TAKE NOTES remember this. I have spoken.
The departing of Ross was a business decision and had nothing to do with Skerrit and his government. Now that we have found a replacement for Ross you need to appreciate the efforts of the government and embrace progress and stop acting like a UWP political fool. Meme, it is time to push aside partisan politics and learn to appreciate what you see. It will bode well for the economy of Portsmouth and its environs in terms of more development, more jobs, more revenue. Meme, it is time you put partisan politics aside and embrace progress. Thank God we are moving on.
According to former Commissioner of Police Carrette, I have only one word for this – utter rubbish
How do you compare Ross University with this one? Papa met. According to school children, where I be there nuh?
Oh by the way, departure of Ross, a business decision. Geez, I wonder what lead to that decision. Maybe you can enlighten please?
If this guy claims his name “ds” abbreviates dog shi.; how can someone like that shed light on anything.
He is ignorant, get caught up with the piece of red whole over his eye!
His kind could catch Roosevelt with his hands in the cookie jar filled with green backs; and when the police asks him if he saw Roosevelt snatched the green backs; he that little illiterate wimp would confess to the crime and go and take jail for Roosevelt.
All one can do is have pity people those kind of people.
Ralph Gonsalze of St. Vincent made a fool out of Roosevelt Skerrit many times over, yet Roosevelt crawls at his feet; the last time was when he told the people of St. Vincent they have a gem by having Gonzales as PM.
Days later Gonzales made the statement that Dominicans will do anything Skerrit tells them.
Another insult, Ralph is actually contending all of us Dominicans are stupid people, and this so called ds, is the epitome of the Dominican stupidity!
I am ashamed of that thing!
You crazy SOB, this is yours and yours only opinion! People that can think straight know better. Get out of here!!
Dog Feces, shut up: departing of Ross was what business decisions?
Dr. Ross; or let’s call it what it was or is: started with a single student, in a house in Roseau, and went on to build a complete University Campus in Portsmouth, what type of business decision could cause the operators; the management to simply walk away and went to Barbados and within a week commenced teaching classes on that island.
You brainless liar; let me give you the real suspected reason Ross students to Dominica came out of North America, mostly, but be it from Europe or Africa, the students could not get any direct flight to or out of Dominica even when there were emergency’s to do so.
Going to Dominica the went through Antigua where the Antiguans impose transit fees on these people.
So, how long has Roosevelt promising Ross that he was going to build an International Airport, and keep lying to these people?
They got tired with his lie ds, and went to a more developed place; Roosevelt is the cause!
Guy, I am Dominican born in the Village of Wesley, I have what is called Belonger Status in Antigua, I got that when Antigua became Independent, it is a form of citizenship prior to the new arrangement of CARICOM.
So, I was going home to Dominica, from the United States, I stayed over in Antigua for two days to try and look after properties I have there, and collect some rent. When I showed up at the Airport to get on LIAT, I was told I cannot proceed until I pay some ridiculous fee.
I argue about it, and was that’s the law; the Ross students suffered the same fate, and that is why an International Airport was necessary to this day.
Dog Shi. in as much as I do not like the Chines government in our country, more than twenty years ago they Told that nasty corrupted crook Roosevelt Skerrit the only way our country will begin to make some progress is when he build an International Port, the lack of such facility is the cause of Ross leaving Dominica.
Dogs often defend their masters!
Matt, why haven’t you said anything about that on any of your talk your shows? Is that too good to be true or talk about? If it was some (negative) beff you would be quick to open your mouth.
@KID ON THE BLOCK
If you are the real person, WELCOME BACK. Thought you were ill or something!!🍗🍖🧀🍫🍬🍾🍿🧁🍦🥞🥧🧇🥧🥯🍓🍊🍉🍇🥝🍅🥜🥓🍟🌭🍕🍗🥩🍛🌮🥖🥐Matt may not hear you or read what you write..
Skerrit the “Starboy of Stupidity”, destroyed the livelihood of thousands of people by getting rid of Ross, but the ‘Starboy of Trikery and Deception’ want you all to believe that replacing it with a school of 9 students is fantastic. This guy is deceptive and outright wicked and abusive. Why didn’t he try his damnedest to keep Ross,and then bring in another school?
Reasons why i often refer to to what passes as a Prime Minister as a WICKED SOUL!!
Matt, why haven’t you said anything about that on any of your talk your shows? Is that too good to be true or talk about? If it was some (negative) beff you would be quick to open your mouth.
ME ME, can you recall the Al Jazeera matter? ALL that Lennox said and even had Al Jazeera to come to investigate? When the table turned, who was the culprit they caught? whose signature was on the documents. WHO IS THE WICKED SOUL? CAN YOU ALL BE TRUSTED ? USELESS WICKED PEOPLE( UWP) you all are.
@KID ON THE BLOCK
Yes i can clearly remember the Al Jazeera episode, which described the members of the Skerrit Labour Party (SLP) as hungry hyenas, because they would take, or steal, 90% of what belongs to the people like you, KID ON THE BLOCK, for themselves, and they would still want a share of the 10% remaining, which belonged to the people. It spoke about people having house(s) worth MILLIONS of dollars, and they are denying it. It told us who are the greedy and corrupt leaders Ali Reza Zibahalat Monfared (a criminal and money launderer), helped as well. I am happy thay you asked that question. KEEP QUESTIONING ME KID!! Just read my responses well.
And yes KID, Skerrit the Starboy of Stupudity is indeed a very Wicked Soul.
ds,you don’t have to explain anybody whose head is buried in the sand and their high level of stupidity exposed for everyone to see.STARBOY will stay more than 5 years with the level of stupidity coming from the blues.
Boy what a big joke! So Roosevelt Skerrit single handedly got rid of Ross University that had over 1100 students, just to keep the US eyes out of his CBI passport sale and shady deals and replaced it with nine students? Boy only in Dominica this foolishness happens because in a real country there would be massive protests going on throughout the country because the departure of Ross affected the entire country.
How can 9 students pay for rent of the facility, pay faculty and staff? Boy I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that this Russian owned school is nothing more than a passport selling factory. I don’t believe it’s no damn university
This is a crying shame and disgrace that a “Starboy of Stupidity and Buffoonery” could allow a 40 years old institution, Ross University School of Medicine, contributing MILLIONS of dollars to a tanking economy to escape from his grasp(deliberately or not), and think it can be replaced with an institution of 9 students. Dominicans can now clearly see why this liar was coined STARBOY OF STUPIDITY…He was spending sleepless nights, trying to get Isaac (the speaka) to cross the floor and was dodging Ad Talem (ROSS) top management team .
Remember people, that’s why CEO of Ad Talem (ROSS),Lisa Wardel had to finally conclude that the Skerrit Labour Party (SLP), does not have a bias for education and health.
See what is happening to Dominican students at universities overseas? See what is happening to Dominican patients at PMH?
The CEO of Ad Talem did read the Starboy of Stupudity very well indeed.
Watch out!! The Starboy of Stupidity expects to be praised for this you know. THE…