Disclosures:

• The Spartan Health Sciences University, School of Medicine (S.H.S.U.) is a foreign medical school which is located in the island of St Lucia in the West Indies.
   
• The S.H.S.U. is located in St Lucia, and is not accredited by the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME). LCME is an accrediting agency for all programs in medical education leading to the M.D. degree located only in U.S.A. and Canada.
   
• The S.H.S.U. does not have a certificate of authority to offer courses or grant degrees from any Higher Education Co-ordinating Board in the United States. Spartan Health Sciences University has a charter granted by the Government of St Lucia, has an accreditation from the monitoring Committee of St Lucia and is authorized to offer courses and grant degrees in St Lucia.
   
• Each state in the United States has different licensing requirements for international medical students, many of which are restrictive.
   
• For information regarding the licensing requirements of a state in which a student may wish to practice medicine, he/she should contact the medical licensing board of that state.
   
• The S.H.S.U. co-ordinates its students in clerkship placement at different hospitals during the clinical phase of their training (refer to page 23 of the catalogue).
   
• Graduates of the Spartan Health Sciences University are licensed to practice medicine in more than forty six (46) states of the United States of America including many other countries world-wide.