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Students beyond the second year of the medical program based at other medical schools around Cuba. In December 2006, approximately 3,300 students were reportedly housed on the campus. The US dorm is two stories, and students sleep on bunk beds in rooms of five to twenty if the rooms are filled to capacity.
Regional medical schools train students to practice in the country or region where the school is located. Offshore medical schools in the Caribbean primarily train students from the United States and Canada who intend to return home for residency and clinical practice after graduation. [2]
ELAM 5 Combate Ceja del Negro is a Cuban polyclinic and Medical Science facility located in the municipality of Sandino, Pinar del Río Province. The school is one of several faculties of its kind falling under the jurisdiction of the Cuban-Venezuelan initiative, as well as a new program to train more Latin-American doctors.
The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. [1] All healthcare in Cuba is free to Cuban residents, [2] although challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs.
We help maintain Cuba’s illegal but necessary grassroots healthcare network | Opinion
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río "Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna" (UCMPR); Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Artemisa (UCMA); Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana "Victoria de Girón" (UCMH) [1]
Tuition-free medical schools are popping up across the U.S., including at some of the country’s most prestigious universities. While the list of free medical schools continues to grow, however ...
Cuba's communist regime has a history of exploiting its medical personnel by forcing them to work in difficult conditions and restricting their travel and communication rights, and it is time for ...