St. George's University
St. George's University is a university located in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada. It is best known for its medical school, which enrolls students primarily from the United States, Canada and other countries outside the Caribbean, mostly those who failed to be granted admission to medical schools they applied to in their home countries. St. George's also boasts a school of veterinary medicine. Concerns about the safety of the large number of American students enrolled at the school was given by United States President Ronald Reagan as a basis for the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada in October, 1983, after the overthrow of Maurice Bishop, a popular leftist leader, by a harder-left Grenadian faction with ties to Cuba. Reagan's opponents stated that the medical students were a mere pretext for the invasion; in any event elections were held the next year and a generally pro-Western government with regard for human rights was re-established. The operation of the university resumed with some of the "rescued" students returning.
St. George's University in the movies
It is this university's medical school that is featured in the second half of Heartbreak Ridge, Clint Eastwood's movie about the United States Marine Corps.
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