Avalon University School of Medicine
Curacao
General information
Main address
Sharlooweg 25, Willemstad, Curaçao
| Phone | +5999 4613177 |
| Fax | +5999 4613155 |
| WWW | http://www.avalonu.org/ |
Visitor address
Same as main addressFormer names:
- Xavier University School of Medicine, Bonaire - until 2010
Year founded: 2003
Year instruction started: 2004
Private institution
Main teaching language: English
Other languages of instruction: -
Title of qualifications awarded: Doctor of Medicine
Abbreviation: MD
Years required to graduate: 4 years
Foreign/overseas and national students are admitted
Tuition fees: All students pay tuition fee
Notes:
The school relocated from the island of Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) to Curaçao in 2010
Legal status and affiliations
The medical school is:
- a private institution
- the owner is located in another country
Ethnic or religious affiliation
- It does not have non-academic affiliations
Institutional partnership
The medical school has no partner or subordinate educational institutions affiliated to it.
The medical school or faculty does not offer specialised programmes in medicine in addition to the programme leading to a basic medical qualification.
Admission
Admission office
Address:
212 Churchill Hubbard Road, Suite D, Youngstown, OH 44505, USA
| Phone | +1 330 759 8008 / Toll Free: +1 888 928 4378 |
| Fax | +1 330 759 8041 |
| admissions (at) avalonu.org | |
| WWW | http://www.avalonu.org/ |
Visitor address:
212 Churchill Hubbard Road, Suite D, Youngstown, OH 44505, USA
Title/position of the person responsible for administration of admission process:
Dean of Admissions
Admission requirements
The school applies elements of both national and local requirements
Students are mainly admitted after completion of an undergraduate degree
The school does not use the results of a national entrance examination. It does not use its own entrance examination.
An interview is required as part of the admission process
The school:
- admits both female and male students
- admits foreign/overseas students and national students.
- does not have an affirmative action programme to support the admission of underrepresented groups, or any other form of programme to support the admission of minority groups
- offers a pre-medical course
Other qualifications than the standard admission requirements accepted:
- qualifications in a heath care discipline other than medicine
- qualifications in another discipline
- work experience
Tuition fees: All students pay tuition fee
Foreign/overseas students are eligible to practise in the country after qualification.
Medical programme
Title(s) of the qualification awarded on graduation
In English: Doctor of Medicine
Common abbreviation: MD
Structure
Number of years of study required in order to graduate from the programme in basic medical education: 4 years
Actual average number of years of study for students to complete the programme: 4 years
Percentage of admitted students expected to complete the programme: 96 per cent or more
The programme in basic medical education last revised: 2006
The programme is:
- divided into two parts - an early pre-clinical phase with no or limited clinical experience, and a following clinical phase
- discipline-based
- not a community-based programme with emphasis on family medicine
- lecture-based, problem-based, case-based and based on other student-activating learning/teaching methods (1 - 24 per cent of curriculum used for student-activating learning and teaching methods)
Clinical training requirements
- including both theoretical instruction and practical experience
Number of years of the programme which include clinical training: 2
Number of weeks of clinical training in the programme: 76
Clinical training is 50 - 74 per cent of the full programme
Number of years of the programme which include time with real patients: 2
Number of weeks of the programme which include time with real patients: 76
Time with patients is 50 - 74 per cent of the full programme
Students must satisfy the following requirements for clinical training to be licensed to practise as a medical doctor:
- the requirements of the medical school's programme in basic medical education
Total number of final student assessments/examinations in each year of the programme:
| Number of assessments year 1: | 12 |
| Number of assessments year 2: | 12 |
| Number of assessments year 3: | 8 |
| Number of assessments year 4: | 8 |
Delivery of the programme in other countries
Arrangements to deliver part of the programme by an institution or institutions in other countries
- none
The medical school offers its programme in any other country
- no, the programme is not offered in any other country
Timing and the academic year
Academic year, average number of weeks: 48
Instruction in year 1 of the programme starts in: Not specified
Instruction in the following years starts in the same month
Total number of scheduled hours of instruction (contact hours) for a student in each year of the programme:
| Number of hours year 1: | 2250 |
| Number of hours year 2: | 2250 |
| Number of hours year 3: | 2250 |
| Number of hours year 4: | 2250 |
Numbers of staff and students
Teaching staff
Total number of academic staff employed by the medical school and involved in the teaching process:
| Number of full-time staff: | 14 |
| Number of part-time staff: |
(Figures does not include the hospital and community based clinicians who contribute to the medical programme by supervision of clinical training.)
Other academic staff employed by the health-care system are involved in the teaching process.
Students
Number of full-time students admitted to the first year of the medical programme:
| 2007 | |
|---|---|
| Men | 9 |
| Women | 10 |
| Total | 19 |
| Foreign/overseas students | 1 |
Number of part-time students admitted to the first year of the medical programme:
None specified
Total number of students in all years of the medical programme (medical student population):
None specified
Number of graduates from the medical programme:
| 2007 | |
|---|---|
| Men | 1 |
| Women | 1 |
| Total | 2 |
| Foreign/overseas students | 0 |
Teaching facilities and student services
Teaching facilities available for the medical programme:
- classrooms, typically 20 - 40 places
- anatomical collections/museums
- teaching laboratories
- clinical skills laboratories
Access to hospitals or other clinical facilities for clinical training:
- agreement with a hospital/hospitals
- agreement with other clinical facilities, communities, etc.
Computer system or network
Available
100 per cent (all) of staff have access to the internet for academic use
100 per cent (all) of students have access to the internet for academic use
100 per cent (all) of total student population can access computers concurrently
Library services
Available
Student support and participation
Medical school/university student services and support:
- academic counselling
- personal, economic and social counselling
- sports facilities
Any student organisation at the medical school:
Yes
Student participate in:
- a curriculum committee
- carrying out course evaluations
- carrying out programme evaluations
- other committees, etc.
Recognition, accreditation and quality assurance
The medical school and its programme in medical education are not subject to accreditation or a similar process of official recognition.
External evaluation, other than as part of an accreditation process, by:
- no
Internal quality improvement and quality assurance mechanisms applied within the medical school
- course evaluation by students
- self-study/self-evaluation of programme
- monitoring of student progress
- staff development courses
- use of external examiners
Frequency of internal quality improvement/quality assurance mechanisms:
most applied every semester