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Haitian medical students in Cuba—number some 700—study at the Santiago de Cuba “Caribbean campus” of the Latin American Medical School. After training in Cuba they are required to return home and serve in their own country which is the poorest in the hemisphere.
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Students study at the ELAM campus for the first two years before completing their studies at one of Cuba's 21 other medical schools, including a one-year rotating internship. The Cuban medical training model emphasizes primary healthcare, community medicine and hands-on internship experiences. [citation needed]
During the 2000–01 school year Cuba allowed 905 U.S. students to visit and study. [26] In 1999 a program was implemented to attract students to study medicine in Cuba from less privileged backgrounds in the United States , Britain and Latin American , Caribbean , and African nations. [ 27 ]
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 ...
A Cuban surgeon with scrub cap performing an open air operation in Guinea-Bissau for the PAIGC liberation movement, 1974. A 2007 academic study on Cuban internationalism surveyed the history of the program, noting its broad sweep: "Since the early 1960s, 28,422 Cuban health workers have worked in 37 Latin American countries, 31,181 in 33 African countries, and 7,986 in 24 Asian countries.
July 20,2018 was another landmark for this ELAM medical faculty when more than 290 medical students received their graduated diploma, among these students more than 44 newly formed doctors from 17 countries completed their medicine degrees. [3] The school currently has over 5,000 students enrolled in its graduate and undergraduate programs.
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.