The first American students who will study medicine courtesy of Cuba’s communist government were welcomed Wednesday to the Latin American School of Medicine with the music of the U.S. national ...

Free program educates students from African, Latin America, and the United States Nolvia Aguilar is not a Communist. But after two years of all-expenses-paid medical study in Cuba, the 22-year-old ...

Eight U.S. students graduate from medical school in Cuba. Fidel Castro established the program in 2007, offering full scholarships to foreign students willing to practice in underserved areas.

Two years ago, Cuban President Fidel Castro electrified a New York City audience when he announced that Cuba would provide free medical training to hundreds of low-income Americans. Today, nearly 6… ...

Cuba established an international medical school in 1999, and since then over 100 Americans have attended. A class at the Latin American Medicine School (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba, on October 14, 2013 ...

To the Editor: We read the article on the Latin American Medical School with great interest (“A Medical School in Cuba Trains Doctors for Poor Countries,” July 20). It sounds heroic ...

In all, there are students from 117 nationalities attending this medical school. Students who don't speak Spanish get six months of intensive language training.Some who have difficulty keeping up ...

Isaiah Blackmon along with students and mentoring doctor, during Charles Drew Medical University Future Black Doctors, Ceremony in Los Angeles California. Cuba has opened its doors and rolled out ...

In 1999 Cuba founded the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) and offered 10,000 scholarships to students “in countries where Cuban medical teams were assisting the local health systems….

Cuba is offering Colombia 1,000 medical school scholarships to support a peace accord in which the South American country's largest rebel army will relinquish its weapons.

Paul E. Peterson’s “Cuba Is an Academic Fraud” (op-ed, March 17) raises doubts about the quality of the Cuban educational system since that country refuses to participate in international ...