Concorde Career College - San Bernardino — Local services in San Bernardino

i have many stories about how crappy this school is. first, i’ll share my personal experience. i was planning on attending this school for the medical billing & coding program which is all online. before i officially started, i had trouble getting into my student email & accounts. i attended the orientation online with no luck accessing any of the other school platforms. this is when i realized that this school is not the one for me, so i unenrolled that very same day. a few months go by & i keep seeing an invoice email being sent to my personal email about money i owe the school, when i didn’t even fully attend the program in general. they tell you that you have time to unenroll w/o being charged anything, & i am more than certain that i unenrolled way before that grace period, so why am i still being charged for something i never even fully attended? & then when i try to call their offices (both san bernardino & kentucky) i am always brought to their voicemail. how do they expect me to pay or even ask about these payments if i can’t access anyone from their offices? it makes no sense to me. now onto my moms horrible experience. she attended the nursing program for a few months, & her experience was nothing but the worst. the teachers do not care about their students. they give tests about subjects they haven’t even taught yet. they leave it up to their students to teach themselves. my mother struggled from the very beginning, even after she asked for help from everyone in the school countless of times, & they offered her 0 support. they purposely fail you so you can keep returning, wracking up your school bills with them. DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL IF YOU WANT TO BE STUCK WITH NEVER-ENDING SCHOOL BILLS & NO...

The LVN staff has some true staples and hard workers that work OVERTIME for their student; ones such as Ms.Baker, Ms, Adams, and especially Ms.Rayna who I’ve personally seen work tirelessly to improve aspects of the program. The LVN director is amazing and truly has student’s best interest at heart, she works with you or tries to understand your situation due to the nature of this harsh program. I’ve read other comments in regards to our director/program and I would like to say those claims are FAR FROM THE TRUTH and misinforming. The director isn’t shy of stepping up, taking accountability, has compassion and is truly committed to making our program better. No LVN program is perfect anywhere, and yes there are ones who don’t work as hard or do leave but they are also the ones’ not truly committed to the program and will be their own demise. There are consequences that are put in place, not knowing everyone’s situation- I know people who have left due to real life emergencies or for their children. Moreover, it seems as though whoever is leaving the comments in regards to “student hanging out in the halls on the phone” is spending too much time paying attention/hanging out with those students and not focused on the curriculum and being present in the classroom. This is a big issue in this school, students are always worried about someone else and how they can be better than them. I feel if you haven’t completed or graduated from this program and all you’ve done is complain to the boards about things you’re not supposed to be focused on, my suggestion is focusing harder on your studies and block out anything that distracts you! Wish you the best of luck in...

Review of being a patient with whom a dental student practiced on as part of her requirement to graduate.

Sabrina is the name of the student of dentistry who performed the dental work on me. My experience with her was comforting. She took great care in her work. She was polite and professional.

After Sabrina completed a portion of her work and experienced dentist (DDS) would look at my mouth and her work and double-check everything. So, really, I was getting free dental work from a career dentist that would have cost me hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

What are the downsides, if any?

Time. I have to come to the dental school once a day for three days scheduled in advance. The time it took each day was about four (4+) hours.

I look upon it this way, "It's my money or my time I'm giving up." Money wise, it probably saved me at least a thousand dollars minimum (so every hour I spent at the dental school as a patient for them to practice on was like $100 in value for me).

Environment: 5 stars. I don't know how to rank a dental school work area, but they had decorated the place nicely. Winter holiday themes. The work area was clean every time I was there, and all precautions were taken in terms of cleanliness and protection.

Service: 5 stars. Sabrina was OUTSTANDING. In some ways, there is never a good trip to the dentist. If we are lucky, the staff makes our experience easier to tolerate. I thank Sabrina for this small comfort.

Service: Sabrina's work was 5 star. I had x-rays taken. I had a deep cleaning / scaling.

Value: 5 Stars for FREE dentistry. It's hard to beat that, and I contributed to the education of a dental student's required hours...