(US) Student turns to Cuba for (medical) degree [View All]

[Mika]

Student turns to Cuba for degree

Amandla Mitchell decided she wanted to be a doctor while attending Godby High School in Tallahassee and Xavier University in New Orleans. The high cost of medical school threatened, however, to derail her plans.

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"The Cuban government covers all the expenses," says Mitchell, 23, who started her studies in September at the Latin American School of Medical Sciences, in a suburb of Havana.
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The program, started in 1999, trains more than 2,000 students annually - including about 90 Americans - from outside Cuba. All expenses except spending money and travel are paid. The students attend school for six years, then head back to their ative countries to finish residencies.

The only requirement is they spend some of their medical careers providing services to areas where doctors are needed - inner cities or remote, rural locations.

More on the hangup(s) caused by the US gov, the partial resolution, and the wonderful program that Cuba offers here.