Medical College Admission

There are 2 types of accreditation a foreign medical school must meet for its graduates to be eligible to work in the US.

  1. It must be ECFMG approved.

The ECFMG does not review a medical school’s curriculum to see if it meets any type of national/international standard. It just checks to make sure the school has a physical site, has a staff and offers some sort of clinical training. The vetting is extremely minimal and mostly geared toward making sure the school isn’t a diploma mill. (That is a school the sells diplomas without offering the required training or classes.) ECFMG-approval does not mean that the education offered by a school is of high quality or that it will accepted everywhere in world.

  1. The school must be approved by the Medical Board of the state where the graduate works.

All physicians are required to hold a valid medical license for the state in which they work. No license = no job. Medical graduates cannot begin their residency without a valid medical license. If school is not on the approved list, then the graduates will never be able to get a medical license. End of story.


All Saints in St Vincent used to be one campus of larger medical school-- All Saints College of Medicine in Dominica. in 2019, the St Vincent campus was sold to a new owner and became an independent school separate from All Saints University in Dominica. This change in status means that the St Vincent school specifically must be listed on the medical board approved list. 

Currently, neither All Saints School of Medicine in Dominica nor All Saints School of Medicine in St. Vincent  are on the approved list for the state of TX or California (and therefore are not approved by the other 35 states which use the lists from TX or CA as their basis for issuing a license.) 

All Saints-Dominica had been previously been on the CA approved list, but was removed several years ago. All Saints has never been on the TX approvedl list. 

You are certainly free to check the individual Medical Boards for all 50 states and Puerto Rico to see if ASU-St, Vincents is on their approved list for medical education. 

It is certainly possible that graduates from All Saints have gone on to successful careers and have become doctors. Just not in the US–at least not recently.

If your goal is become a doctor practicing medicine in the US, attending this school will not get you there.