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Seems even the Yanks are wakening up to the fraud that is Miss Sharon Mitchell



JP

why do you believe lukeford? maybe he's just a twat like you...

Tomsk, if you haven't already seen my reply in another thread (one was deleted), I did some checking around and found out that you were indeed correct about 'Dr.' Sharon Mitchell. You were right, I was wrong....and I'm big enough to admit it.

Whilst I don't think the subject of her PhD. should be any question as to whether she can be referred to as Doctor (She could have a Doctorate in Needlework for all I care!), the validity of the qualification is, and she is not a properly qualified PhD. and therefore has no business calling herself a Doctor. She did not take her course at an accredited college, and the PhD. programme she did take in no way resembles a proper PhD. course in either duration or content.

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As a medical student, I find it highly insulting that she would chose to present herself as a doctor, or even as a Ph.D., especially given the fact that the "institution" that bestowed the Ph.D. upon her is *NOT* accredited by the US Dept. of Education or a Council for Higher Education Accreditation or US Dept. of Education approved accrediting body. You can view her Ph.D. info here or Google cache here and the institution's page here.

Aside from the humorous fact that the first words mentioned on their website is "Note: We now accept Mastercard, Visa and Discover", the requirements for this Ph.D. is are shady at best.

From their web page, the institute requires a whopping 5 trimesters of work, plus a thesis, to receive the degree. Unlike the name implies, a trimester is not four months, or one-third of a year. As their website states, a trimester is roughly *HALF A MONTH*. They define their Spring trimester as Feb 7 - Feb 22 and their Fall Trimester as Oct 3 - Oct. 20.

What this means is that for the whopping academic commitment of as little as 2.5 months, anyone can earn a Ph.D. They don't even require an undergraduate degree as long as you can prove you have "experience" in the field! Their main interest seems to be collecting the exorbitant $4,950 per trimester fee, for which no federal or state student loans are available since it's not an accredited educational institution.

This barely qualifies as a shade above a diploma mill and is an insult to all of us who put in the usual 4 years of undergrad work and 5-6+ years of extremely challenging graduate work and contribution to the academic community for our doctoral degree.

The fact that Sharon Mitchell knowingly purports herself to be a "doctor", despite lacking a degree from an accredited college or university, is nothing short of unethical.

I also find it highly disturbing that the medical institution in charge of ensuring the industry's safety is headed by an individual with a fraudulent degree.