Ultimate Medical Academy Bull-sh*t "education" Clearwater,FL Nationwide

I attended UMA from Jan-Oct of 2012. Enrolled in the pharmacy tech program. Long story short, my teacher, Mr. Stephen, was a certified pharm tech himself. Never really cared for him to begin with, He was very mean to some students and had very little patience.

To jump ahead to the point of all of this he would often disappear telling us he was "In the lab origanizing" when he reality he was in his car sleeping off his hangover. This happened often. Every 6 weeks we were on a wheel program and new students would join. One student in particular was a basket-case from the get-go/ He never shut-up and knew everything.

At one point he was caught with a bayonet-type knife in the classroom and nothing was done about it. He later was caught red-handed cheating on a final exam, again, no reprimands here either. Eventually my teacher,Mr. Stephen, was fired for drug and alcohol use with said student. That student, however, was once again, off the hook......

 After the dismissal of our teacher we had 3 different teachers "covering" this position without any pharmacy tech experience. This was completely frustrating. Nobody obviously cared as long as they kept getting enrollments and taking peoples money, why should they? My teacher for my final exam review class had just graduated from pharmacy school.

Although very sweet, she barely spoke any english and even she agreed, the curriculum we were given was not accurate at all and she did not understand any of it. I had faith in her because she came from a very good, Real pharmacy school. She never taught a day in her life so just went along w the instructions she was given.

This was part of her externship I believe. So an easy gig for her. Turns out the material she was teaching us was not the correct information. We all ended up failing our certification exam due to it. To re-take it cost $120, each time. I never retook it again. She quit after teaching this class, by-the-way, agreeing that this school is not right!.

My externship was a joke,consisting of handing out cheap medication in a free clinic out of a room,not a pharmacy. The rest of the time was spent watching my extern lead watch Netflix movies on the computer.

I have not persued a career in this filed. I did not recieve a proper education and no respectable employers will hire students from this school due to their reputation. However, I still owe $10k in student loans. For what?