Coordinating Professor in Cuba: Dr Beatriz Corona Miranda. MD
Coordinating Professor in The Netherlands: Dr Niubel Díaz Padilla, MD
- Objectives:To strengthen knowledge of and interdisciplinary
- practice in Primary Healthcare, prevention of communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and give insight into (research of) Cuban mental health
Monday January 30
Location : Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiología y
Microbiología (INHEM)
09:00 am Opening of the course. Identification of expectations.
Introduction of the course program and INHEM.
10: 00 am Lecture Cuban National Health System
10: 45 am Break
11: 00 am Lecture Primary Healthcare and Family Medicine in
Cuba. National programs of health (e.g. Mother and child
program).
12:00 am Tour to Policlínico de ‘Nguyen Van Troy’ and to the
family nurse and doctor´s office in the neighbourhood.
01:30 pm Finish
Tuesday January 31
Location: Policlínico de Playa
09:00 am Lecture National program for the Elderly. Healthy
Aging and Community Services for the Elderly.
10:20 am Tour to an Elderly Home
11:20 am Tour to a Maternity Home
01:30 pm Finish
Wednesday February 1
Location: Hospital Universitario Calixto García
09:00 am Lecture Mental Health reoriented to the
community. Suicidal behavior, depression, anxiety and
other mental health disorders
10:00 am Lecture Research into mental health in Cuba
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Tour of Hospital Universitario Calixto García
13:30 pm Finish
Thursday February 2
Location: Instituto de Medicina Tropical ‘Pedro Kourí’
09:00 am Lecture Introduction to the Institute
10:00 am Lecture Management of transmissible diseases
e.g.Arboviruses (Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya),HIV, cholera, leprosy, hepatitis B/C.
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Tour Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí
13:30pm Finish
Friday February 3
Location: Centro de Attención al Diabético
09:00 am Lecture Management of noncommunicable
diseases (diabetes, hypertension, other CVD)
10:00 am Lecture Management of cancer in Cuba
Tour of Centro de Attención al Diabético. Meeting with the
staff and patients.
02:30 pm Integrated Seminar. Issuing of course
certificates. All professors attending
