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The Barbados Medical Council is accused of discriminating against graduates of the world renowned Latin American School of Medicine [ELAM].

By Tee White

A letter to the Barbados Medical Council (BMC) which is circulating on social media has highlighted the discriminatory policy that this organisation adopts to Barbadian medical students who complete their studies in Cuba. The writer states that he is the father of a student who has completed his medical studies in Cuba. His letter reads:

“I need Answers from the Barbados Medical Board.

Eight years ago my Son left Barbados to study medicine in Cuba, where he graduated top of his class.

Upon returning home, he was told by the Medical Board, that they do not recognize Medical Graduates from Cuba.

Would you believe he was told that in order for him to work in Barbados.

He have to attend medical school in Jamaican for 18 months.

These same studies that he has to do in Jamaica were already covered in Cuba.

These are my Questions to the Medical Board.

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8 responses to “Barbados medical council strange policy exposed”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    The blogmaster will exercise editorial license to comment that doctors and lawyers and to a lesser extent other professional bodies in Barbados are not rigorously supervised.

  2. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    This is actually common in many places.
    In Canada, where there is a severe shortage of doctors, and spaces in our medical schools, Canadian doctors who have trained in Australia, the Caribbean and elsewhere, cannot easily return to work in Canada. They are made to jump through hoops and take lengthy courses and exams just to ‘be eligible’.
    Meanwhile, there are also a number of doctors who have emigrated from elsewhere who cannot get licensed to work here, without similarly lengthy additional training.
    Yet the country produces a plethora of doctors from foreign countries, who will leave our shores for elsewhere. For some, their mighty medical school fees are paid by foreign governments, under the condition they return.

  3. X Detective Avatar
    X Detective

    What I find strange is that when disaster strikes we accept doctors and nurses from Cuba. In addition some top politicians go to Cuba for treatment. Barbados is run by RH arrogant pompous doctors and lawyers.

  4. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    amurcan partner

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2024/09/19/education-ministry-signs-mou-with-us-accreditation-partner/

  5. David Avatar
    David

    The doctors contracted from Cuba during the COVID 19 pandemic had to undergo a certification from the Barbados Medical Council? Asking for a friend.

  6. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    UK

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/britain-s-biggest-gp-body-votes-to-ban-physician-associates/ar-AA1qUGSF

  7. David Avatar
    David

    Chinese medical team arrives

    AS PART OF a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed in October 2016 between Barbados and the People’s Republic of China, the seventh medical team from China has arrived to assist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

    The medical team, comprising 13 people, arrived on Sunday night led by the Chongqing Municipal Health Commission’s deputy director-general, Xing Yaxi.

    On hand to welcome the delegation were Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Davidson Ishmael, and China’s Ambassador to Barbados, Yan Xiusheng. (BGIS)

  8. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Ex CDC director’s Oped endorses RFK Jr’s position on Trump’s health policy team to prioritize investigation of the continuous rise of NCDs in American children over the last 30 to 40 years.

    Bajan medical professionals, please take note:

    Newsweek magazine’s web site posted this Oped on Sep 24th.

    Donald Trump Has a Plan to Make America’s Children Healthy Again. It’s a Good One.

    By Robert Redfield director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021

    SNIP

    But when we know the causes, our federal government must be ready to fix the problems. Due to increased special interest and corporate influences on our federal agencies, prospects of national success are quite dim unless public trust is firmly re-established. Without public trust, our nation cannot effectively impact public health.

    Across a century-plus of cozy courtship, the federal regulators have nearly married the regulated, especially in health care. Today, private industry uses its political influence to control decision-making at regulatory agencies, law enforcement entities, and legislatures.

    Kennedy is right: All three of the principal health agencies suffer from agency capture. A large portion of the FDA’s budget is provided by pharmaceutical companies. NIH is cozy with biomedical and pharmaceutical companies and its scientists are allowed to collect royalties on drugs NIH licenses to pharma. And as the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), I know the agency can be influenced by special interest groups.

    SNIP

    President Trump has pledged, if elected, to establish a panel of top experts working with Kennedy to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases. He specifically mentioned autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, and infertility. In 2019, when we took steps to take on the chronic disease epidemic, we also focused on creating earlier interventions in diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and more.

    In response, Kennedy pledged that “within two years, we will watch the chronic disease burden lift dramatically” if he’s given the tools he needs to make a change.

    I believe him. And I think President Trump will empower him. I support their noble effort to heal our children.

    The exorbitant cost of the failing health of our kids, the needless suffering and death, can be ended by a Kennedy Commission on Childhood Chronic Disease—and the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and bankrupts our nation can disappear. The key is to see the possible, and lead our nation to act.

    Source:
    https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-has-plan-make-americas-children-healthy-again-its-good-one-opinion-1957026

    In addition there is a brief clip from a recent interview with RFK Jr posted on X in which RFK Jr says that in a recent lunch engagement he had with Dr. Redfield, Dr. Redfield told him that he (RFK) had “got everything right.” This presumably includes getting right the contents of RFK Jr’s best seller book:The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.

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