Learning from the Cuban experience in medical education April 2017 Members of a collaborative Cuba-UK-South Africa project exploring the value of Cuban-training for South African medical students met this year to discuss how the programme can promote Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The ‘South Africa-Cuba doctors programme’, which offers bursaries to South Africans from disadvantaged backgrounds to study medicine in Cuba …
Cuban medical education: The cat that couldn’t bark?
The award of almost 200 free scholarships to enable students from United States of America to study medicine in Cuba came as quite a surprise at an All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health meeting on 4 March 2015, chaired by Lord Crisp, titled ‘Potential Lessons for Primary Care Emerging from the Cuban Model of Medical Education’. Surely the USA’s …