UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC SERVICES ANNOUNCEMENT

CUBAN MEDICAL SERVICES

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC SERVICES ANNOUNCEMENT

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS AND GENERAL INFORMATION  

292 years of experience in Health Sciences teaching at the service of the world

With an experience of more than two centuries in medical education, dating from January 1726, the Cuban Medical Sciences Universities extend their warmest welcome to those interested in starting their academic formation in our island of the Caribbean Sea, whose greatest treasure are its Inhabitants and natural beauties, within a framework of peacefulness and citizen safety unparalleled in the world.
We have 13 Universities of Medical Sciences, which offer the possibility of satisfying academic training in this field at the request of governments, institutions, groups or individuals. These academic institutions are authorized by the legal mechanisms established by the Cuban State for such purposes, under the direction of a Rector and with a categorized cloister, in certified scenarios, which gives the right to issue certification documents of any level.

In Cuba there is a National Accreditation System, whereby, in each university campus, the scenarios for training in the different careers and postgraduate studies offered are certified, in order to guarantee the fulfillment of the activities described in the Programs of study.
In each career the study program is unique for the whole country and its implementation is performed equally for all undergraduate students.

The academic formation includes the careers of Medicine, Stomatology, Degree in Nursing and 8 careers of Health Technology.

If Spanish is not its native language, the student can take the language course, which lasts about 40 weeks for the undergraduate, or demonstrate his mastery of the same through an oral and written proficiency exam, which he must apply for before starting his registration.
Other modalities in announcement are specialized visits and internships that allow the student to obtain a complete vision of the functioning of our National Health System, or to develop specific subjects of his / her Career, delivering the plan that it must cover, attending to the modalities of student mobility In today's world. Other specific applications are also evaluated which respond to particular training needs, including the implementation of pre-professional practice activities

Welcome!

REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
• Passport.:
• Photocopy of the title of High School, Baccalaureate, or equivalent level legalized in the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in the country of origin or residence
• Ten (10) 1x1-inch photos
• Document certifying that you do not have a criminal record, legalized at the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in the country of origin.
• Health Certificate : (obtained within a period of no more than three months before beginning the studies) legalized at the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in the country of origin or residence, proving that the applicant does not have any disease that invalidates it for To study in our country, according to the list of conditions established in ANNEX 1.
• Birth Certificate

SPANISH PREPARATORY COURSE
The preparatory course is mandatory for non-Spanish speakers, with the exception of those who demonstrate their Spanish language proficiency by a proficiency exam (oral and written), by personal request, prior to the beginning of their studies.

Duration: 20-40 weeks

Sufficiency exam: any time prior to the beginning of the course
Price of the proficiency exam: 100.00 USD

Price for the Spanish course: 2.000,00 USD.

MEDICAL CAREER

Start of the course date: September
Duration: 6 years
Degree: Doctor of Medicine

Price: 55.000,00 USD (includes registration)

There is the possibility to request only one year of study, in particular the last year, whose price is higher than the total price declared in this document for each academic year.

There is the facility to make payments in three installments.

Deadlines for making payments by years of the Medical Career

STOMATOLOGY CAREER

Start of the course date: September

Duration: 5 years

Degree: Doctorate in Stomatology
Price: 50.000,00 USD (includes enrollment)

You have the possibility to request only one year of study, in particular the last year, whose price is 20% higher than the total price established in this document for this academic year.
There is the facility to make payments in three installments.
Deadlines to make payments for years of the Stomatology Career

DEGREE IN NURSING

Start of the course date: September

Duration: 5 years
Graduate Degree: Bachelor Degree in Nursing
Price: 33.000,00 USD (includes enrollment)

You have the possibility to request only one year of study, in particular the last year, whose price is a 20% higher than the total price established in this document for this academic year.

There is the facility to make payments in three installments

Deadlines to make payments for years of the Bachelor Nursing Career

DEGREE IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

Start of the course date: September

Duration: 5 years
Graduate's Degree: Bachelor's Degree in "name of bachelor's degree"
Price: From 32,000.00 USD to 33,000.00 USD (includes enrollment)

You have the possibility to request only one year of study, in particular the last year, whose price is higher than the total price established in this document for this academic year.

PRICE OF ACADEMIC SERVICES PER STUDENT IN MEDIUM LEVEL TECHNICIAN CAREER (PRICE IN USD)

RECOGNITION OF STUDIES ABROAD TO CONTINUE STUDIES IN CUBA.
Documents to be submitted (duly legalized at the Cuban embassy in the country of origin or residence):

- Study program of each year of completed studies.

- Certification of marks of each year.
Validation price: Depending on the hours dedicated to the analysis of the documentation by the commission of experts created for such purposes.
Minimum price: 275.00 USD.
The request will be delivered in writing addressed to the Rector of the University of Medical Sciences where he will study, with a copy to the Academic Services of the Comercializadora de Servicios Cubanos, S.A.
If the answer is negative, the price paid for the recognition is not refundable.

RELEVANT INFORMATION:

Deadline to receive applications

Applications will be received throughout the year, adapting them according to the date closest to the start of the course. They are carried out personally through the email docencia@smcsalud.cu without the need for intermediaries, with the exception of intergovernmental agreements.
The only entity that commercializes academic health services in Cuba is Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, S.A. (CSMC, S.A.)

In a period of no more than 30 days the interested party will receive via email the response to their request, as well as the contacts with the study center where it was located. Grants are decisions of Cuban Medical Services, who reserves the right of admission.

Applications will be registered in a database and are valid only for the academic period for which it was requested. If you do not enter this period, you must return to the formal application corresponding to the following academic year

Beginning Date of the Course
The date established for the beginning of the course is the first week of September so you must be presented between 10 or 15 days before that date to carry out the corresponding procedures for International Health Control, which has a mandatory nature, immigration procedures, preparation of the identity card and medical insurance.
Internships will begin according to the date they are offered.

Grant of academic visa
- Once you have been accepted, you must send the following information to the electronic address (docencia@smcsalud.cu) no less than 60 days before the proposed date of travel

• Name and surnames
• Sex
• Date and place of birth
• Nationality
• Private address
• Passport number
• Country that issued it
• Date of issue of the passport
• Passport expiration date
• Purpose of your visit:
• Date of entry into the country:
• Departure Date:
• E-mail address:

-The visa is requested at the Cuban embassy in your country of residence.
- If an academic visa has not been granted before traveling, the student may do so with a tourist visa and make the change of immigration status upon arrival whose amount is 40.00 USD on stamps and obtain the identification document issued by the Directorate of Immigration and Aliens of the Republic of Cuba, whose amount is 10.00 USD.

Health Insurance
- Contact the company ASISTUR, through the website: http://www.asistur.cu/. Information on the coverage provided by the health insurance can be obtained through the following electronic address: http://www.asistur.cu/seg_gm.pdf.
- The price of these insurance is dependent on age, sex, diseases, etc.
- There are health insurance purchased in the country of origin or in other countries that are homologated with the insurance of ASISTUR, the only entity authorized to determine its approval or not.

CORREDOR ASISTUR, S.A.
ADDRESS: Paseo del Prado No. 208 between Trocadero and Colón
TELEPHONE: (53-7) 866 4499/866 8920/866 8339/867 1314/867 1315
Fax: (53-7) 866 8087

Health and disease control
- Upon arrival in Cuba, the student should immediately go to the University of Medical Sciences that accepted it for the completion of the International Sanitary Control for 10 days, which is mandatory.

- During this period the student will be able to choose accommodation and food in the facilities of the university in case of availability, which will pay in cash according to the prices established for this concept in the facilities of the National Health System. If any invalidating illness described in this document is diagnosed during or after the International Sanitary Control, you will be suspended from teaching activities and you must return to your country immediately. If the disease is curable you will be able to return as long as you present a legalized medical certificate attesting your cure. In any other case its readmission will not be possible.

- Having a disease that invalidates you to study in Cuba implies the immediate return to the country of origin applying the regulations of discounts established for it

Bank transfers for payment
- Regardless of whether prices are set in USD, the transfers can not be made in US dollars or from banks or branches with US capital. For this reason the transfer must be made in Euros / Sterling Pounds / Canadian Dollars.

- The transfer must specify the name of the person to whom the payment is intended. It must be ensured that the Cuban party receives the entire amount agreed, without discounts. The expenses associated with bank transfers made in favor of Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, S.A. for the payment of the academic activity agreed in accordance with the terms of this Annex, will be assumed in full by each student, so that SMC receives the corresponding amount, free of surcharges and other discounts that may proceed

Information on the Bank account for individual payments from abroad:
(It is mandatory to reflect exactly the data expressed below)

Account Holder: Sucursal Servicios Médicos y Académicos

No. of the account:             0300000004292620

Name of the Bank:             Banco Financiero Internacional, S.A. La Habana

Swift Code:                          BFICCUHH

Address of the bank:          5ta. Avenida No. 9009, esquina calle 92, Playa, Miramar, Cuba

Currency to be transferred: Euros / Pounds Sterling / Canadian Dollars

Transfers must be made through a correspondent bank.

Main correspondent Banks by countries of the Banco Financiero Internacional de Cuba, to be used according to your bank.

Germany:

Banco do Brasil - Frankfurt Alemania   Swift Code: BRASDEFF

 DZ Bank AG - Berlin Alemania     Swift Code: GENODEFF   

Unicredit Bank AG  – (HypovereinsBank)     Swift Code: HYVEDEMM   

Belgium:       

KBC Bank NV – Brussels   Swift Code: KREDBEBB

Canada:     

 National Bank of Canada   Swift Code: BNDCCATT              

Spain:       

Banco Sabadell - Barcelona     Swift Code: BSABESMM

Banco Santander S.A. Formely Banco Español de Crédito   Swift Code : ESPCESMM

Caixa Bank, S.A. – Zaragoza     Swift Code: CAIXESBB

France:      

CreditAgricole – Paris     Swift Code: AGRIFRPP

Italy:            

Banco Popolare di Milano S.C.AR.L    Swift Code: BPMIITMM

Banco Popolare del Emilia Romagna – Modena   Swift Code : BPMOIT22

Banco Monte deiPaschi di Siena SPA    Swift Code: PASCITMM

Banco Intesa San Paolo - Milano.    Swift Code: BCITITMM

Japan:           

Banco of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJLTD    Swift Code: BOTKJPJT

United Kingdom:

Havin Bank LTD - London   Swift Code: HAVIGB2L

Panama:      

Multibank          Swift Code : MCTBPAPA

Sweden:         

SvenskaHandelsbanken - Estocolmo      Swift Code: HANDSESS

The intermediary or correspondent bank in correspondence with the bank from which the transfer is made, which can be made by any payer, always communicating in the reference the University of Medical Sciences (UCM) from which you will receive the services, your name and activity in particular.

Example 1: UCM Habana. Juan Martínez González. 1st Year Medicine Career

Transfers cannot be made in US dollars or from American banks located or not in the United States, banks located in the United States or banks or branches with US capital.

Payment & Returns
- Every Year before the beginning of the selected academic services, the payment must be made in full or by installments through a bank transfer from the country of origin or the country where the transfer is made to the account whose data are provided in this document.
- In the prices of the careers is included:

• Enrollment, right to attend all lectures and optional activities, both theoretical and practical.
• Right to all career exams, including final state examination.
• Certification of marks for academic periods legalized by the University.
• Delivery of graduate title, certification of notes, thematic plan and certificate of good practice legalized by the University at the end of the career.

• Use of library services during studies
• Access to sports and cultural areas of the study center and participation in its different manifestations.

• Scientific advisory services for research

- The legalization of documents in the MINREX for use abroad is not included in tuition payments and will be done on a personal basis by the student and defraying the entire cost

- Once its enrollment is officially approved, a contract will be signed between the student and the University. Failure of the student to present for the agreed academic services 10% will be deducted of the agreed amount.
- If the student withdraws for any reason during the first week of the time stated in the program of study for professional improvement: courses, training, internships, etc. or on the first month of those corresponding to the academic training of careers, it will be deducted 10% of the total payment made for academic services

- If the student withdraws (academic, personal problems, or illness, within 50% of the time stated in the study program of the academic activity you are entitled to reimbursement of 50% of the payment made. After 50% and one (1) day of the time declared in the program he shall not be entitled to any remuneration whatsoever. This does not relieve the student of the payment of any other economic responsibility acquired. If the withdrawal is the result of infringement of the discipline or breach of the Regulations for Foreign students in Cuban higher education institutions, he will not get any reimbursement.
- If it is necessary to make a refund, it will only be made to the beneficiary in Cuba in USD, or in its absence and in very exceptional cases duly justified to the person who made the transfer by means of document accrediting before a public notary and duly legalized in the Cuban Embassy or Consulate in the country of origin.

- Payments for academic services, as well as accommodation and meals do not include: teaching materials, national or international transportation, telephone or Internet communications, books, teaching aids, medical instruments, printing materials, immigration procedures in Cuba Immigration status and identity document), translations and legalizations before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or embassies, paperwork and transfer of corpses in case of death. It is the responsibility of each student its transportation to and from the airport at the beginning and end of the studies and during the vacation period between one academic year and another in case he decides to travel.

Tuition
- The programs of the careers (Medicine, Stomatology, Bachelor of Nursing, and Bachelor of Health Technology) can not suffer any type of variation in content or time.

- The programs of the careers are not sent before their arrival and formalization of their registration.

ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS

Health System Facilities

Price: 6.85 USD per person per day (includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and accommodation)
Room capacity: 8 people average, in bunk beds, with bathrooms outside the room.

The meals, pre established menu that are offered in the student residences of the universities are based on the traditional Cuban cuisine, following the Cuban norms of feeding in the current conditions. The student has the option to consume it or not, but will not receive adjustment or other offers.

The provision of vegetarian or other foods that respond to religious beliefs and / or cultural factors is not available.
All students residing in student residences belonging to the National Health System are required to comply with the disciplinary regulations established in each institution
Other options of accommodation

- Hotels

- Houses of private tenants duly legalized.

APPLICATION FORM FOR PREGRADUATE ACADEMIC SERVICES

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Full name: _____________________________________
2. Country of birth: ________________________________
3. Mother’s name: ________________________________
4. Country of origin:_______________________________
5. Father’s name:_________________________________
6. Country of origin:  _______________________________
7. Address: ______________________________________

_________________________     Country: ______________________           

Phone number: __________ Email: _____________________

8. Date of birth: ______________________   Age: ______
9. Passport Number: _____________________________
10. Name of the insurance company and insurance number (in case you have it)
11. Current  occupation: ___________________________________________
12. Date of graduation(High School, Baccalaureate or Equivalent: ______________________
13. Institution which certified your studies: ________________________ ______________________________
14. Personal Disease Antecedents of Disability (Check list of disabling conditions related in Annex 1) (Which ones): ______________________________________________________
15. Career  you request: ______________________________
16. If Spanish is not your mother tongue, ¿what would you like to do?: (Select with an  X):
17. 1. ____  Undergo Spanish Course.
18. 2. ____ Undergo Spanish proficiency test.

     17. You would like to live in :

1. _____ University Residency  in  Cojímar (for those who start pre med and Spanish courses)

b.  _____ University Residency Basic and Pre Clinical Sciences Institute “Victoria de Girón”(for those beginning the career)

1. 3. Other accommodation option: (specify which)

    18.Contact person in case of disease, accident or death.

Name:

Relationship:

Phone number:

Email:

19. Date of your request

NOTE: Attach your CV to this form.

ANNEX 1

DISABLING CONDITIONS LIST TO ENTER TO CARRY STUDIES OF DIFFERENT PROFESSIONS OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
Warning: If this occurs after your arrival or during the International Sanitary Control or academic course
1. Total amputation of limbs or segments of members, excluding those of the

    lower limbs that are partial and do not require the use of prosthesis
2. Marked Cifo- scoliosis.
3. Dwarfism.

4. Amputation or agenesis of the fingers of one or both hands affecting manual  

    skills
5. Ankylosis of large joints.

6. Pectum carinatum or excavatum with cardio-respiratory failure
7. Curvature, shortening or lengthening of members that avoid their functions or

    clothing or footwear.
8. Acromegaly.
9. Chorea or athetosis.
10. Blepharospasm. Bilateral ptosis.
11. Retinitis Pigmentosa.
12. Congenital Glaucoma. 
13. Bilateral Congenital Cataract.
14. Bilateral severe hearing loss or kyphosis.
15. Voice disorders and disorders of the speech.
16. High degree of stuttering.
17. Rhinolalia
18. Pemphigus
19. Discoid Fixed Lupus Erythematosus

20. Generalized dermatitis
21. Leprosy.
22. Genodermatosis, ichthyosis (according to location and extent of the injury).  

      Epidermolysis bullosa, Xeroderma pigmentosum, Von Recklinghausen    

      Disease.
23. Psoriasis
24. Paralysis of limbs..
25. Ataxia.
26. Epilepsy difficult to control.
27. Mental deficiency of any degree.
28. Personality disorders in a permanent state of inadequacy or frequent  

      periods of  decompensation.
29. Psychiatric disorders in the form of permanent or frequent seizures despite    

      treatment.
30. Aftermath of traumatic injuries, burns or surgery, or keloid scars shrink,

      which makes  movement difficult or produce functional disability or serious    

      aesthetic problems or  interfere with wearing clothes or shoes
31. Congenital Malformations or permanent disfigurements from any cause.
32. Malignancies
33. Hemophilia.
34. Sickle Cell Anemia (sicklemia) hypoplastic and aplastic anemia
35. Chronic hepatitis with positive antigen.
36. Cyanotic congenital heart disease
37. Congenital or acquired heart disease with physical limitations.

38. HIV/AIDS.
39. Any kind of active tuberculosis
40. Addictions to psychoactive substances prohibited by the Cuban laws. 
41. In the case of requesting Bachelor in Nursing, allergy to penicillin or other products.