title: 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.
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reed
mesh_terms: D003462:Cuba; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D008493:Medical Missions / Q000458:organization & administration; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000458:organization & administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*