October 28, 2005

Sun, Sand, and an M.D.

New for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean draw many Americans, but are graduates qualified to practice?

By Mike Ceaser

Many of John Daryanani's cousins are doctors. So when local Roman Catholic Church officials approached the Curaçao real-estate developer for help turning the vacant Catholic girls' school beside his new hotel into a medical school, he was happy to sign on. The group renovated the old building, hired a management team away from another Caribbean medical school, and went into business in 2003. Today Mr. Daryanani is chairman of St. Martinus University, one of the Caribbean's youngest