Health care is a national priority in Cuba since it is seen as a human right for all inhabitants. Cuba’s health strategy priorities preventive, primary care, community-based services, and public engagement.
Cuba has the largest number of doctors per capita due to its low to nonexistent costs (67 per 10,000). This contributes to Cuba’s healthcare system, which, despite its low GDP and shortage of pharmaceuticals and equipment, is doing well.
Following are the Top 5 Best medical Schools in Cuba:
- Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas.
- Escuela Latinoamerican de Medicine (ELAM)
- Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba.
- Universidad de Ciencias Medicas de Holguin
- Universidad de Ciencias Medicas de La Habana
1. Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas:
Welcome to Las Villas’ Central University “Marta Abreu.” This school, which was founded on November 30, 1952, is the most prominent center of higher education in Cuba’s central area and has been awarded the Excellence condition by the National Accreditation Board in 2016. We concentrate our efforts on constructing a successful and sustainable socialism on the development axis, as agreed by the Party Congress till 2O3O, and we contribute results to the consolidation of the Cuban economic model. Integral professionals with a strong humanistic sensibility, competent, educated, carriers of our values, and loyal to the motherland are trained with quality and efficiency.
2. Escuela Latinoamerican de Medicine (ELAM):
ELAM is a higher medical education institution that is rooted in our country’s legacy of international solidarity. ELAM considers the following in this context:
“Contribute to the satisfaction of the growing demands of physicians oriented toward primary health care in various regions of Latin America and other latitudes, with a high academic level; in the solution of scientific-technological problems of health, in the country’s long-term development, and in the elevation of universal culture in medical practice and society in general.”
To this purpose, ELAM makes dynamic contact with society a fundamental axis of its growth in the domains of teaching, research, care work, and university extension activities that promote complete training of high-level general practitioners. altruistic, ethical, humanitarian, and supportive, scientific preparation, social conscience, and excellence that contribute to the solution of the most pressing needs and the sustainable human development of their communities of origin; continuous postgraduate improvement of health professionals; the generalization, assimilation, adaptation, and effective transfer of up-to-date scientific knowledge, as well as the strengthening of its links with the community
3. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Santiago de Cuba:
We are a Moral Collective that works systematically in the province of Santiago de Cuba to achieve excellence in the implementation of the System of Science and Technological Innovation in Health through comprehensive actions with a high degree of competence, intersectorality, and competitiveness, in addition to the introduction of advanced technologies and scientific-technical results of impact, with a high sense of professional ethics, and the training of qualified human resources, as part of the process of integrating science into the country’s economic and social growth, to achieve higher levels of health indicators, as well as higher levels of quality and satisfaction in medical treatment supplied to the people
4. Universidad de Ciencias Medicas de Holguin:
The mission of the University of Medical Sciences is to direct and control the processes of implementing policies for training, continuing education, and the training of human resources required for public health, based on the development of medical science careers in the Sector’s teaching, care, and research units. They enable humanistic, ethical, supporting, and innovative scientific and technology progress and technological innovation based on population health challenges.
5. Universidad de Ciencias Medicas de La Habana (UCMH):
The UCMH Mission Develop the university extension and exercise methodological stewardship of plans and study programmes of the careers and postgraduate modalities; comprehensively train revolutionary professionals in Health Sciences; produce knowledge, technologies, and innovations; develop the university extension and exercise methodological stewardship of plans and study programmes of the careers and
To be a “University of Excellence” that educates innovative health-care professionals based on the clinical-epidemiological-social paradigm, with an ecological and humanistic outlook, and that generates information, technologies, and technology breakthroughs to tackle societal challenges.
