South African medical students trained in Cuba need additional 18 months of training back at home

From our Bureau of Top-Notch Socialist Medical Education with some assistance from our Bureau of Third World Medical Powerhouses

Yes, shocking indeed. South African students who spend six years in Castro, Inc.’s medical schools are deemed so ill-prepared to handle patients that they are being required to undergo an additional year and a half of training upon their return to their native land. This is nothing new. It has happened time and time again in other Third World hellholes that are dumb enough to pay Castro, Inc. to train their doctors and nurses.

This time, the retraining is creating a ruckus in South Africa. Will this mean an end to the program that sends South Africans to train in Cuba. Dream on. Fuggeddabouddit. This is sacred stuff, untouchable holy excrement left behind by Saints Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela.

From Defence Web (Africa’s Leading Defence News Portal)

Thirteen SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) personnel are back in South Africa following six years of “military medicine” training in Cuba and find themselves in an 18 month “integration programme” before qualifying as medical officers/general practitioners.

Once integration is complete, the 13 will, according to SAMHS SSO Corporate Communication Colonel RP Makopo, do internship and community service – as mandated by the Health Professions Council (HPC) – at the three military hospitals in South Africa.

One who does not see the need for the “extra” 18 months is African Defence Review (ADR) Director Darren Olivier. He asks what value will be gained for the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) from the 18 month integration at the University of Pretoria’s School of Medicine in view of the knowledge acquired in Cuba before the 13 are “able to do any work in South Africa”.

He poses the question because “SAMHS internal training programmes are far quicker for most disciplines and are already fully compliant with South African healthcare qualifications”.

Apart from medical education and training, the SANDF, by way of Project Thusano, is exchanging personnel as well as training in disciplines as varied as aircraft maintenance; vehicle upgrades and refurbishing; dental and medical equipment repair and maintenance; as well as musketry instruction. It expanded to include senior staff courses for SANDF officers. Accepting these have their place, thinking out loud Olivier asked if it wasn’t time to ask “how much sense the Cuban training agreements make for a cash-strapped SANDF?”

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