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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
30th September 2006, 02:55
The people of Cuba have extended, to students from the US, the opportunity to study medicine on a full scholarhship at the prestigious Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba. IFCO/Pastors for Peace coordinates this program in the United States.

Applicants should:

* Be US citizens
* Be between the ages of 18 and 30 at the time of registration
* Be physically and mentally fit
* Come from the humblest and neediest communities in the US
* Be committed to practice medicine in poor and under served US communities
after graduation.

For an applications contact:
Interreligious Foundation
for Community Organization
402 West 145th Street
New York, NY 10031
tel. 212-926-5757
email: [email protected]

Here is the brochure: Cuban Medical School scholarship program brochure (http://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool/documents/LASMbrochure.pdf) (you'll need Adobe Reader to view this, free software, so google if you don't have)

For more detailed information please go to:
Medical school main page (http://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool/main.htm)
Frequently Asked Questions (http://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool/freq_asked_questions.htm)
Medical School Curriculm, General Plan of Studies (http://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool/curriculum.htm)

For those that don't know Spanish, you will be given an intensive spanish training course before you begin. Anyone who has seriously thought about going to medical school but can't afford the over $100,000 in costs should definitely apply. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Whitten
30th September 2006, 12:47
+100 Marx points for Cuba.

A SCANNER DARKLY
23rd January 2007, 00:00
Incredible!

metalero
23rd January 2007, 05:38
why is this in chit chat?

Nothing Human Is Alien
23rd January 2007, 06:32
Moved

A SCANNER DARKLY
18th February 2007, 20:19
Clockwork did you apply to this?

It's interesting how none of this made the news.

Tekun
19th February 2007, 12:49
Originally posted by A SCANNER [email protected] 18, 2007 08:19 pm
It's interesting how none of this made the news.
Yeah, I guess FOX and NBC were to busy covering the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith, they must of overlooked this :rolleyes:
Fidel and Raul, how dare they!!



I especially like how they're expected to serve in the neediest communities in the US, therez alot of need here in Los Angeles' poor communities, and also in the southern US

OneBrickOneVoice
19th February 2007, 20:07
I posted this on another forum. Great find clockwork.