Actuellement 30 000 étrangers étudient la médecine à Cuba.
En juillet 2006, 430 étudiants Sud Africains sont allés à Cuba dans le cadre d'un accord de coopération signé entre les deux pays en 1995. Cet accord comprend aussi le recrutement de médecins cubains pour travailler dans les zones rurales de l'Afrique du Sud qui souffrent d'un manque de médecins.
Les futurs médecins Sud Africains accomplissent 5 années d'études à Cuba jusqu'à l'obtention du diplôme cubain. A leur retour au pays, ils accomplissent une année d'nternat, dans les hôpitaux, particulièrement ceux situés dans des zones défavorisées. A la fin de l'année d'internat ils devront passer à l'instar de l'ensemble des étudiants, un examen national qui les autorisera à porter officiellement le titre de docteur en médecine.
L'Afrique du Sud et Cuba ont signé différents accords bilatéraux dans des secteurs comme le commerce, la finance, les mines, l'électricité, le sport et les sciences, entre autres.
World Social Forum praises Cuban social programmes
Nairobi - Participants in the seventh World Social Forum, currently underway in Kenya, have praised the educational and health programmes that Cuban professionals are carrying out worldwide. The basic-literacy teaching method "Yo Si Puedo," created by teacher Leonela Relys, and the Integral Health Programme (PIS), with which more than 29,400 professionals are serving in 68 countries, were particularly praised at the meeting Monday. More than 1.5 million people have learned how to read and write between 2003 and 2005, in Venezuela alone, thanks to this method now being applied in 10 languages. Bolivia, New Zealand, Mozambique, Haiti, Mexico, Argentina and Ecuador are among the nations that have implemented this method. Cuban medical collaboration was also recognised with praise and encouragement from the the delegates at the showing of "Salud (Health)," a documentary directed and produced by Connie Field, with the slogan "Sometimes Aid Comes From Unthinkable Places." The film, which allowed Cuban doctors serving in two African countries to share the developments made in Cuba, assures that their nation has "one of the best health systems in the world." The Latin American country is currently training some 30,000 foreign doctors, including South Africans. Cuba has collaborated with 154 nations from 1961 until the present, sending more than 270,000 collaborators, of which 132,000 are health professionals. By July last year, a total of 430 South African medical students had been enrolled in the programme with Cuba, as part of an agreement signed between the two nations in 1995. The agreement also includes recruitment of Cuban doctors to work in rural areas in South Africa, which experience shortages of medical doctors. After being selected, the South African students study for five years in Cuba and write the National Final Cuban Examinations (NFCE). The trainee-doctors will then return to South Africa on the sixth year to do their final clinical year and internship in various South African health-science faculties, particularly those in the under-resourced areas. The students then sit for a South African examination with the rest of the country's medical students to qualify as doctors. Through the Joint Bilateral Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Business Cooperation, South Africa and Cuba collaborate in sectors including trade, investment, finance, mining, electricity, sport and recreation and science amongst others.
- BuaNews-NNN
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