A diploma you might keep at home (vs. the office)
Here on Dominica, we share the island with other cruisers, locals, and the medical students of Ross University. Ross University ? Not ivy league.........think Coconut League. Doesn't that sound like a fake school that the kids of 90210 went to after high school ?
Ross University is apparently a medical school for the not quite ready for prime time kids of America. Can't you imagine a father-son conversation........."Your grandfather was a doctor, I'm a doctor, and you will damn well be a doctor"............albeit a voodoo doctor or whatever degree they bestow upon these folks.
We see them a lot during our walks to the IGA supermarket. After 4 months in obscure anchorages in the Caribbean, we still mist up when we see Coke Zero and frozen food, so it's like Christmas day when we find one. The Ross University students are usually there as well.........bro-hair, lots of tattoos, lots of beer in the shopping cart. I desperately want to ask one of them about job prospects after they graduate but I'm not sure they actually care that much. I hope there's some really hard test they need to pass in order to practice medicine on live people in the US........or I'm going to get more interested in faith healing and homeopathic medicine.
Anyway, if they're not good for the quality of healthcare in the US, at least they help the economy of Dominica, although I'm hoping the clinics here are staffed by local doctors. More to come.
Ross University is apparently a medical school for the not quite ready for prime time kids of America. Can't you imagine a father-son conversation........."Your grandfather was a doctor, I'm a doctor, and you will damn well be a doctor"............albeit a voodoo doctor or whatever degree they bestow upon these folks.
We see them a lot during our walks to the IGA supermarket. After 4 months in obscure anchorages in the Caribbean, we still mist up when we see Coke Zero and frozen food, so it's like Christmas day when we find one. The Ross University students are usually there as well.........bro-hair, lots of tattoos, lots of beer in the shopping cart. I desperately want to ask one of them about job prospects after they graduate but I'm not sure they actually care that much. I hope there's some really hard test they need to pass in order to practice medicine on live people in the US........or I'm going to get more interested in faith healing and homeopathic medicine.
Anyway, if they're not good for the quality of healthcare in the US, at least they help the economy of Dominica, although I'm hoping the clinics here are staffed by local doctors. More to come.