ELAM 10 Rafael Ferro Macias

ELAM 10 Rafael Ferro Macias is a faculty of the Escuela Latinamericana de Medicina (known as the Latin American School of Medicine) located in Sandino, in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba.

The faculty comprises approximately 300 students from 18 countries including Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Nauru, The Solomon Islands, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

The first advance is composed of group seven and contains 34 students from Belize, Ecuador, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Suriname.

Also this group is known to have exposure to variants of Spanish spoken by Cubans, Nicaraguans, Bolivians, Ecuadorians, Argentinians and other countries.

The second advance is composed of groups one to six and contains students from Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Nauru, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Suriname.

These students arrived in late August and September 2008 and will begin classes shortly in the premedical school.

These include a tranquil, nicely shaded park in the front of the school with large poinciana trees used as an area for study and also for worship by various students.