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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]
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.
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.
All American Institute of Medical Sciences: 2011: MD: Offshore: Yes, F0002376 [97] Yes "Initial Provisional Accreditation Withdrawn" by CAAM-HP. [11] Yes University of the West Indies Faculty of Medicine (Mona) 1948: MBBS: Regional: Yes, F0000014 [98] Yes (From 1953) 279: Accreditation for five years, 2023-2028 by CAAM-HP. [11] Yes Caribbean ...
Agrarian University of Havana "Fructuoso Rodríguez", Mayabeque (UNAH) ; Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara (UCLV) ; University of Artemisa (UA) ; University of Camagüey "Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz" (UC)
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.
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.
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.