Cuba answers the call for doctors

Abstract

Havana's Latin American Medical School takes passionate young people from developing countries and sends them home as doctors. It's all about driving health equity, writes Gail Reed. Now the challenge is to get medical societies to accept them.

Dr Midalys Castilla, one of the founders of the Latin American Medical School in Cuba.

Students study morphophysiology of the human body, which encompasses anatomy, physiology, histology and pathology.

Medical student, Pasha Jackson, spent last summer working with Native American communities in New Mexico.