The American University of Integrative Sciences (AUIS), is a private for-profit offshore medical school with a single campus located in Barbados.
[5] In September 2013, the school relocated operations to Cole Bay on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten, and eventually went bankrupt, with a debt of $700,000.
[5] By September 2014, it was owned and operated by IEMR, LLC, led by CEO Milo Pinckney, and changed its name to the American University of Integrative Sciences, Sint Maarten School of Medicine (AUIS).
[7] In March 2017, the AUIS went public with its dispute with Education Minister Silveria Jacobs, accusing her of "stonewalling" and refusing to meet with Pinckney to resolve their differences.
[5][8] Pinckney told the Today newspaper that he believed a competitor, American University of the Caribbean, had influenced the government to create "obstacles" making it difficult for AUIS to do business in St.