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Two kinds of story, both first-person and both checked by our team: scam stories — how it started, what was promised, what it cost — and student stories from verified students already abroad, showing the help they provide and what they wish they'd known. Every story is mapped to the college, city and country it concerns. Cases marked 📰 From the news are compiled by our team from published reporting, with sources linked — not first-person accounts.
12 stories
Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. is a school its dean says has shaped the face of American medicine for 158 years, and it draws applic…
📍 Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C., United States of America
In the United States a medical school's standing rests on the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, whose accreditation underpins graduates' eligibility for …
📍 Nashville, United States of America
Medical regulators in the United States keep public licence registers, but patients increasingly meet doctors first on social media, where a white coat and a c…
📍 Montgomery, United States of America
In the United States a nurse is licensed by a state board after passing the national NCLEX examination, but the board relies on the school's diploma and transc…
📍 Plantation, Florida, United States of America
For an international medical graduate (IMG) wanting to practise in the United States, certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates…
📍 Willemstad, United States of America
New York licenses physicians through the State Education Department's Office of the Professions, and that is where the Queens District Attorney's office told t…
📍 New York (Queens), United States of America
In the United States nursing licences are issued by state boards, and any licence number can be checked on the Florida Department of Health's online register. …
📍 Palm Coast, Florida, United States of America
Every year hundreds of doctors from South Asia sit the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) hoping for an American residency. A pass is a condit…
📍 Kathmandu, United States of America
In the United States a doctor is licensed state by state, and every prescriber carries a National Provider Identifier, the NPI number pharmacies and insurers u…
📍 Baton Rouge, United States of America
The United States licenses doctors state by state, and every state board publishes its register, its disciplinary actions and, increasingly, its criminal refer…
📍 Los Angeles, United States of America
The most reliable scam against foreign students is not a fake college. It is a phone call from someone claiming to be the government of the country they are st…
📍 Washington, United States of America
The United States is where the international verification system was built, and it still produces credential frauds at scale — most recently in nursing, a prof…
📍 Florida, United States of America
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