General information

Click here for PDF of full information on this medical school

Main address

P.O. Box 2478, Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia

Phone	+1 758 454 3990
Fax	+1 758 284 9518
E-mail	dan (at) destinyuniversity.edu.lc
WWW	http://www.destinyuniversity.edu.lc

Visitor address

Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia

Former names:

College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Saint Lucia - until 2009

Year founded: 2001
Year instruction started: 2002

Private institution

Main teaching language: English
Other languages of instruction: None

Title of qualifications awarded: Doctor of Medicine
Abbreviation: M.D.

Years required to graduate: 4 years

Foreign/overseas and national students are admitted

Tuition fees: All students pay tuition fee

Legal status and affiliations

The medical school is:

a private institution
the owner is located in the same country

Ethnic or religious affiliation

It does not have non-academic affiliations

The medical school is a university in its own right.

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:

U.S. Information Office, 65 East Broadway, Butte, Montana 59701 USA

Phone	+1 406 533 6760
Fax	+1 406 782 2166
E-mail	dan (at) itgworld.com
WWW	http://www.destinyuniversity.edu.lc

Visitor address:

U.S. Information Office, 65 East Broadway, Butte, Montana 59701 USA

Title/position of the person responsible for administration of admission process:

Daniel B. Harrington Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer

Admission requirements

The school applies elements of both national and local requirements

Students are mainly admitted after completion of an undergraduate degree

The school uses 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.
has 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:

none

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: M.D.

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: 3 ½ years

Percentage of admitted students expected to complete the programme: 96 per cent or more

The programme in basic medical education last revised: 2008

The programme is:

divided into two parts - an early pre-clinical phase with no or limited clinical experience, and a following clinical phase
partly integrated (25 - 49 per cent integrated)
both a community-based and a family medicine programme (25 - 49 per cent of curriculum)
problem-based (25 - 49 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
requirements for completion of a supervised period of clinical practice after graduation such as internship or pre-registration training

Total number of final student assessments/examinations in each year of the programme:

Number of assessments year 1:	15
Number of assessments year 2:	10
Number of assessments year 3:	6
Number of assessments year 4:	7

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

by distance learning

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:	1110
Number of hours year 2:	675
Number of hours year 3:	2280
Number of hours year 4:	2280

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:	6
Number of part-time staff:	12

(Figures does not include the hospital and community based clinicians who contribute to the medical programme by supervision of clinical training.)

Students

Number of full-time students admitted to the first year of the medical programme:

	2004	2007
Men	10	3
Women	11	2
Total	21	5
Foreign/overseas students	21	5

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:

	2004	2007
Men	1	7
Women	0	1
Total	1	8
Foreign/overseas students	1	8

Teaching facilities and student services

Teaching facilities available for the medical programme:

group rooms, typically 5 - 12 places
classrooms, typically 20 - 40 places
small auditoriums, up to 100 places
dissection rooms
anatomical collections/museums
teaching laboratories
clinical skills laboratories
other facilities

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