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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]
MEDICC also provides support to the nearly 100 low-income and minority students from the United States, enrolled in Havana’s Latin American Medical School. Like students from the other 28 countries represented at the school, US students, in exchange for a full scholarship, pledge to return to practice in underserved communities throughout the US.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ]
While admission to American medical schools is highly competitive, [14] standards are generally lower for offshore medical schools. Thus, more American graduates with less than stellar resumes are accepted. The challenge for most of these students is graduating and matching into residency programs in the United States. [15]
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