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Who – CME-Abroad and the University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas in Veradero, Cuba, hopefully, in conjunction with a major U.S. teaching hospital for CCME credits – (TBA) – What – Medical Convention – Wednesday 7/27, Thursday 7/28, Friday 7/29 What – Cuba’s Innovative Approach to Medicine, Healthcare and Education What – Cuba’s Colorful Past […]

The 2016 Medical Conference is July 25-30, – but more on that later. We’re meeting in Miami next month to work out the CME program. Here is some recent news, from the Shanghi Daily: HAVANA, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) — The U.S. immigration policy towards Cuba complicates the bilateral health cooperation, a top Cuban official said

You may be wondering if I’ve forgotten about my readers and subscribers, but that’s not the case. I think about you almost daily but decide to wait until there’s something concrete to report. The 2016 Medical Conference Schedule hasn’t shown up yet. I’ve been requesting a 2016 schedule everywhere I go and checking online. New

….. Cuba announced that starting Dec. 7, specialist doctors would have to get permission to travel abroad, reverting to a restriction lifted two years ago and deeply angering many medical professionals on the island. The move came just three months after the Cuban government issued a call for doctors who had defected to come home,

While we continue to wait for the 2016 Schedule of Medical Conferences in CUBA, I thought I’d pass along information in a Newsletter you may find useful, from the University of Washington’s: Directly from their website PURPOSE The objective is to make information about culture, language, health, illness and community resources directly accessible to health

Highly recommend this beautifullly written story about, “Doctors in Cuba”. HAVANA TIMES — Some years ago, a former vice-minister for the economy told me, keeping a straight face, that an unpublished study had revealed that the State employees who missed the least days of work were hotel bell boys and pump operators at gas stations.

From the University of Penn – Warton School of Medicine – “Given its proximity to the U.S., where there is a shortage of Spanish-speaking primary care physicians and nurses, Cuba makes sense as a training ground and reservoir of medical professionals, notes Ullmann, who is co-author of the book, Cuban Health Care: Utopian Dreams, Fragile

A few years ago, when I first started talking about sending doctors to Cuba, people questioned the legality of our trips. These last few months of news about re-establishing relations ith Cuba, people are assuming that they will be free to book a trip on their own – if they want to. Although the American

The Chelsea was great! It’s an older, boutique hotel on Washington Blvd., just a few short blocks from the action at the Beach. Breakfast choices, under an umbrella, at the Chelsea include Eggs Benedict, for like like $8.00. If you’re on a budget, there’s a Deli to your left and McD’s to the right. I