[NYTr] Latin American Specialists Graduate from Cuban Med School
 
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:43:09 -0600 (CST)

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Latin American Specialists Graduate from Cuban Med School

Havana, Dec 12 (acn)  Thirteen young doctors from Nicaragua, El 
Salvador and Peru have became the first graduates of  General Integral 
Medicine from the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana.

During the graduating ceremony, which was held at the Dr. Serafin Ruiz 
de Zarate School of Medicine in the Cuban central province of Villa 
Clara, the students received their degrees from Jose Luis Aparicio 
Suarez, president of that educational institution.

Nicaraguan Bernabe Antonio Calero Cerna spoke on behalf of the 
graduates. He thanked the Cuban people for allowing them to feel like 
sons and daughters of this country, and thanked Cuban President Fidel 
Castro for providing scholarships to young people from low income 
families to study medicine in Cuba.

The Latin American School of Medicine opened its doors in 1999. Since 
then more than 10,000 students have studied in Cuba, with an emphasis 
on the much needed primary healthcare in their countries. So far, 5,044 
students from 57 nations have graduated as physicians in the 22 medical 
faculties throughout the island.

Villa Clara joined the project in the 2001-2002 school year. Since then 
588 students have graduated in the central Cuban province.
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