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UVI Medical School Suffers Setback, With Accrediting Body Citing Insufficient Funding to Maintain Operations

The University of the Virgin Islands said Monday that it has suffered a setback in its goal to open the UVI medical school in the territory, following a decision by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education during a meeting last month to keep the medical school in applicant status while withholding what UVI officials hoped would have been a move to candidacy.  UVI said if LCME had granted candidacy status, a site visit would have been triggered. LCME candidacy status is the first step of a lengthy process to achieve full accreditation. Any new medical education program seeking LCME accreditation must follow a series of steps outlined in the LCME Rules of Procedure document.  Keeping UVI in applicant status means the university failed to meet the threshold set by LMCE to achieve candidacy status. The LCME accredits complete and independent medical education programs whose students are geographically located in the United States or Canada for their education. The LCME is recognized ...