Fallen in the Face of COVID-19: Graduates of Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM)

摘要

The 2020 fall semester at Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) began on an especially somber note: honoring 17 of its alumni felled as they battled COVID-19 in their home countries and beyond. A few were recent graduates among the 30,047 from 118 countries who received scholarships from Cuba to study medicine at ELAM. Others were members of its fi rst graduating class in 2005.