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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]
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.
This is a list of medical schools in the Caribbean.Schools are listed in alphabetical order by country or territory, then by name. The list includes medical schools recognized by their local governments that award the Doctor of Medicine (MD) and/or Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degrees.
José María Aguirre (T-9) is a school of medicine located in a small community San Jose de Marcos near municipality Jagüey Grande situated in Matanzas Province, Cuba. The school is named after the 19th Century Cuban revolutionary general José María Aguirre. The school primarily hosts medical students from Pakistan.
The following is an incomplete list of colleges and universities in Cuba: Provincial colleges. Agrarian University of Havana "Fructuoso ... Medical colleges
The University of Havana, founded in 1727, is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the oldest in the Americas. In 1900 Cuba had a literacy rate of 36.1% [6] [7] - which was quite high for Latin America at the time. [8] By the early 1900s Cuba had a strong education system, but only half of the country's children participated.
Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Sancti Spíritus also called Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Sancti Spíritus is a medical school established in 1986 located in Sancti Spíritus, capital city of Sancti Spíritus Province, Cuba. [1] [2]
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.