It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the University of Medicine and Health Sciences (UMHS).  At UMHS, we are dedicated to your success, where students come first! 

In May 2008, we opened a boutique medical school for students that deserve and demand a quality education in a small school environment. 

Our faculty are highly credentialed and recruited primarily from the United States.  They love to teach and dedicate virtually 100% of their time to students. 

The Basic Science Program, semesters 1-4, is located at our state of the art campus on the beautiful Caribbean Island of St. Kitts.  Our traditional medical school curriculum compares with most U.S. medical schools.  We adopted a case-based learning system integrating into the basic science curriculum clinically related materials starting in Semester One.   Students have access to a variety of clinical settings including community health centers, local hospitals, skills laboratories, and professional patients. 

We invested more than $30 million dollars to develop one of the most modern campuses in the Caribbean that can compare, or even exceed, that of most U.S. medical schools.  Our wireless campus includes a new 11,000 square foot state of the art anatomy building, a 24 bed virtual hospital environment with more than 20 computerized human simulators, multiple classrooms, laboratories, an auditorium, and a large library and learning resource center with over 60 computers for student use.  All of our classrooms and laboratories are equipped with the latest in audio visual equipment to enhance the quality of education.  I urge you to view our web site and view the Campus section for more details.

The Clinical Program, consisting of semesters 5-10, is completed at major teaching hospitals in the United States.  The fifth semester, which includes a clinical correlations and board review component will be held at our new Portland, Maine campus. Again, this is a state of the art teaching facility, and students will be working beside highly regarded Maine physicians.  The fifth semester program is designed to build student clinical capabilities, increase student confidence, and enhance student performance on United States Licensing Examinations (USMLE).  We anticipate that our students will have a very high first-time pass rate on this examination because of the training provided in semesters 1-5.

I would like to invite you to attend one of our information sessions to learn more about the benefits of attending UMHS.  If you are in the New York area, please feel free to stop by our office and meet our admissions staff.  We stand ready to assist you.  As a hands-on president, I am always interested in meeting new students.  Feel free to come in and say hello.

Sincerely yours,

Warren Ross
President
University of Medicine and Health Sciences