Cuban Health Experts to Help Poor Communities in Chicago
Source: La Prensa
Cuban Health Experts to Help Poor Communities in Chicago
Washington, Jan 11 (Prensa Latina) Cuban health experts will work with local specialists in assessing health care for vulnerable communities and limited resources in the American city of Chicago, the island''s diplomatic sources stated.
According to a press release from the Cuban embassy in this capital, the initiative is part of a collaboration project between the University of Illinois and the Ministry of Public Health of the Caribbean nation.
The work began yesterday, with a visit to Chicago of three Cuban health professionals. The aim is to propose actions that contribute to improve health indicators of the communities included in the project.
The visitors will stay in Chicago until January 13th, during the first stage of the collaboration, which will last about one year. This project will be focused on maternal, childcare, cancer detection, and prevention.
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and this particular program should continue a year.
I'll keep my eyes out for more information.
You might remember, US medical students have been getting free tuition to Cuba's terrific medical school in Havana, where they also take students from all over the world, put them through a language program, then all the rest of their training, with only one stipulation, that when they have graduated, they will return to their communities and work for an agreed upon period with the people in impoverished neighorhoods, just as it's done in Cuba.
Makes perfect sense, and US medical students without the financing have taken advantage of this program, going on for years, returned home, helped countless people from coast to coast, in ghettos, barrios, among migrant workers, and on reservations.
For anyone who wants to learn more:
AUTHOR: SARAH ZHANG. SARAH ZHANG SCIENCE DATE OF PUBLICATION: 03.29.16.
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WHY SOME STUDENTS ARE DITCHING AMERICA FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL IN CUBA
WHEN SARPOMA SEFA-BOAKYE, who grew up in southern California and went to UCLA, heard she could go to medical school in Cuba, she thought it must be a joke. Not that it existed—she met Cuban doctors while studying abroad in Ghana, so she knew about the country’s robust healthcare system. What was unbelievable was the cost.
“I called the office asking how much the program cost, how much the application fee was. They were just like ‘Free, free,’” says Sefa-Boakye. “How can it be free?” But indeed, the Latin American Medical School—ELAM, in Spanish—is free, charging no tuition, room, or board. In 2002, she packed her bags for Havana.
Sefa-Boakye is one of over 100 Americans who have gone to the school. Cuba established it in 1999, after the country sent hundreds of doctors to help neighboring countries hit by hurricanes. The school is an extension of that medical diplomacy: ELAM caters specifically to low-income students from outside Cuba, who come learn for six years and return to serve their communities.
Does this sound like a way to spread Cuba’s ideology—you know, propaganda? Sure, maybe. But for some American students, the school’s draw is free tuition. Others comes specifically because of Cuba’s ideas about healthcare, including its emphasis on community medicine. At a time of ballooning health costs, the US might learn a thing or two about that.
More:
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/students-ditching-america-medical-school-cuba/
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ELAM (Latin American School of Medicine) Cuba
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM), formerly Escuela Latinoamericana de Ciencias Médicas (in Spanish; in English: Latin American School of Medicine (LASM), formerly Latin American School of Medical Sciences), is a major international medical school in Cuba and a prominent part of the Cuban healthcare system.
Established in 1999 and operated by the Cuban government, ELAM has been described as possibly being the largest medical school in the world by enrollment with approximately 19,550 students from 110 countries reported as enrolled in 2013.[1] All those enrolled are international students from outside Cuba and mainly come from Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Africa and Asia. The school accepts students from the United States — 91 were reportedly enrolled as of January 2007. Tuition, accommodation and board are free, and a small stipend is provided for students.[2][3][4][5][6]
An ELAM sister school operated by the Venezuela government and sited in Guri, Bolívar, Venezuela was scheduled to open in October 2006. However, it was only half built as of November 2008. The school is named Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina A.P. Réverénd after French physician Alejandro Próspero Réverénd.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELAM_(Latin_American_School_of_Medicine)_Cuba
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Frequently Asked Questions
Full Scholarship Program to Study Medicine in Cuba
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT ALL APPLICANTS READ THIS DOCUMENT IN FULL BEFORE CONTACTING THE IFCO OFFICE.
If you are interested in a scholarship to the medical school in Cuba, you MUST fit the following criteria:
Be US citizens (with US passport)
Be between the ages of 18 and 25 by the time of matriculation.
Must have completed the following college-level, pre-med science courses with grade of B- or better:
More:
https://ifconews.org/medical-school/frequently-asked-questions/
