St Matthews University

St. Matthew's University (SMU) is a medical university in Cayman Islands  on the island of Grand Cayman in the British West Indies, and it includes the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine. The School of Medicine was originally established in Belize in 1997, however moved to the Cayman Islands in 2002, while the School of Veterinary medicine welcomed its charter class in the Fall of 2005.

Clerkships and licensing
St. Matthew's School of Medicine has been approved by the Education Department of New York, and the Florida Department of Education for the purpose of completing clinical clerkships in these states.

Graduates of St. Matthew's School of Medicine are currently not able to be licensed as physicians in the following states:
 * California: As a result of a site visit done by the Medical Board of California, SMU was officially disapproved for both training and licensure on February 18, 2005.
 * Indiana: States SMU is disapproved as of December 5, 2002.
 * Kansas: State regulations require "a graduate of a school which has been in operation for not less than 15 years and the graduates of which have been licensed in another state or states which has standards similar to Kansas."
 * Texas: similarly placed SMU on their list of "Substandard or Fraudulent Institutions," and notes that attempting to use the degree to obtain a medical license is a Class B Misdemeanor in that state.

Basic sciences

 * Semester 1: Patient-Doctor Skills I, Embryology, Histology and Cell Biology, Bostatistics & Epidemiology, Gross Anatomy
 * Semester 2: Patient-Doctor Skills II, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Physiology
 * Semester 3: Patient-Doctor Skills III, Medical Microbiology I, Medical Pharmacology, Introduction to Psychiatry & Ethics, Pathology I
 * Semester 4: Patient-Doctor Skills IV, Genetics, Medical Microbiology II, Medical Pharmacology II, Pathology II

Pre-clinical sciences
Clinical Therapeutics, Advanced Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine

Clinical sciences
Core clerkships consist of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Family Practice, Psychiatry.