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I requested a year off from school to go to Haiti and work with the Cuban doctors after completing my 2nd semester of 3rd year at ELAM (the Latin American School of Medicine). I am one of 120 American citizens studying medicine in Cuba free of charge, with plans to practice medicine upon graduation in [...]
Yenaivis Fuentes Ascencio, 23, a medical student from Guantánamo, Cuba and Aníbal Ramos Socarrás, 30, a surgery resident from Manzanillo, Cuba are currently on a tour of the US. We understand that they have been in Atlanta, the Twin Cities and Chicago and will be traveling to Washington before arriving in New York City on [...]
There has been much talk about Massachusetts since the victory of Senate Republican Scott Brown. Many have suggested this victory was a referendum on the Democrat’s health care reform “overhaul” awaiting a unified bill to be signed by President Obama. The centerpiece of this plan is a mandate, i.e., a legal obligation to buy health insurance, [...]
Joanna Mae Souers, an American studying medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) has written several times on the portal (see here). She asked us to post the following thank you note: David Lundquist, President and CEO of Kingston Hospital, of upstate New York, made efforts to organize supplies to donate to the [...]
We have received an appeal from our friends at MEDICC who are providing support to Haitian doctors in Haiti who have been trained in Cuba. This is a particularly important effort since it strengthens the local medical infrastructure; these Haitian doctors will remain in place long after the disaster relief ends. And it also breaks [...]
Joanne Mae Souers, a New York State resident studying medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, sent us this report on her activities: The Hospital is Our Classroom; The Patient is Our Professor As third year students at the Latin American School of Medicine the hospital is our classroom and the [...]
Readers of the Portal may be interested in the blog set up by US students studying medicine at the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Havana. Starting at the end of July, twelve ELAM students went on a two week tour of the Southwest United States. Their intent was to publicize the school, work as [...]
We have just published a new issue of Social Medicine/Medicina Social, our bilingual, online journal. It is available in both English and Spanish. Our 13th issue touches on several important issues in world health including the current economic crisis and the WHO Commission’s on the Social Determinants of Health. And, of course, the stories of [...]
We have been asked by our friends at MEDICC to pass on this action alert regarding Dr. Luther Castillo, a Honduran physician who has been threatened with arrest in the wake of the recent coup. Dr. Castillo, a member of Honduras’ Garifuna community, was one of the first graduates from the Latin American School of [...]
Here is the latest update from from Joanna Mae Souers, one of the US students studying medicine on scholarship in Cuba: June 2009 Today there are 148 American students studying medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana. They study within Cuba’s world-renowned system of universal health care. Despite Cuba being a “poor” [...]