Highlighting Trinity Family Successes
It goes without saying that COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on our world. One of the most impacted spaces is the medical field. Doctors at hospitals around the world are on the front lines and coping with a situation many hoped they would never see.
The beginning of medical school is the start of a new adventure for students across the globe. In Canada an astonishing 81% of med school applicants – many of whom would make phenomenal physicians- found themselves rejected at home. So, a large percentage of those Canadian applicants without a seat look abroad—most of them to
The Governor General of St. Vincent & the Grenadines, US-trained cardiologist Sir Frederick Ballantyne, MD, GCMG, is fond of saying, “Trinity isn’t about being a good ‘Caribbean’ medical school, it is about being a good medical school, period.” Over the years, Trinity has distinguished itself from other schools in the Caribbean. We, as an institution,
There are quite a few medical schools operating in the Caribbean. This has been a source of everything from hope and opportunity to stress and uncertainty over the past half century or so for US and Canadian students. And while we obviously think that we’re the best choice for anyone considering an international medical education,
In Canada in 2017, only 2,617 of the 13,690 applicants were admitted to medical schools. An astonishing 81% were rejected. Therefore, a large percentage of Canadian applicants looked abroad, most of them to Caribbean medical schools. But, what happens when school is over? In 2018, of the 1,758 international medical graduates (IMGs)- most of whom
Caribbean medical schools have had a complicated history. As schools of opportunity for the 60% of US medical school applicants that find themselves rejected at home, they are a vital and proven path to practicing medicine as a doctor in the US. Nearly 3,000 US IMGs (US citizens that earned their MD in the Caribbean
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