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An offshore medical school is a medical school that caters "primarily to foreign (North American) students, wishing to practice medicine in the US and Canada" according to the World Bank,〔Offshore Education in the OECS, By Swedish Development Advisers AB, The World Bank, September 2004 http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLAC/Resources/Chap5_background_Offshore_Educ.pdf〕 compared to local public schools that focus on their home nation.〔Offshore Medical Schools in the Caribbean By Antonella Parolini and Cindy Platek, Credential Evaluators, World Education Services, June 2010, Volume 23, Issue 5, http://www.wes.org/ewenr/10june/feature.htm〕 Nonetheless, the local economies often benefit from the academic and economic influence from those schools.〔 Such schools are chiefly located in the Caribbean. ==Education offering== Caribbean offshore medical schools often specified in the Medical Doctor degree, while US and Canadian Medical Schools are often departments of universities who offer several degrees. The curriculum of offshore Medical Schools in the Caribbean follows the one in US, as they usually only offer two years of basic science study and use teaching hospitals or clinics in US or Canada, sometimes in UK for clinical training. The teachings often focus on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification process, and the measurement of performance is the passing rate of students in the exams. In most schools, passing of the USMLE Step 2 exam is required to graduate and get a M.D. degree.〔 In most schools, the academic calendar is divided in trimester, with semesters start in January, May and September. The lack of a summer break offers students a potentially faster route than US medical schools to a degree with a compressed curriculum. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Offshore medical school」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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