The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba today convenes the V Symposium on Basic Clinical Liaison, scheduled for 10-11 July, as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.

The event, organised by the faculty of the discipline Biological Basis of Medicine, the Academic Vice-Rectory and the Directorate of Professional Training, explores on this occasion the challenges of the Biological Basis of Medicine in this century.

Through debates, presentations of research results and conferences, the event proposes an academic exchange on current issues associated with biomedical studies, methodological and didactic aspects of the processes involved in professional training.

The lectures, in face-to-face or virtual mode, will cover topics linked to the profiles of the Basic Sciences, including ageing and cardiovascular diseases.

Likewise, university extension as a substantive process in the medical degree course III, clinical specialities and their relationship with the subject Biological Basis of Medicine IV, virtualisation in teaching and the improvement of human behaviour.

The requirements for the reception of papers appear on the website of the ELAM, a school inaugurated on 15 November 1999 during the IX Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Havana.

Last January, this centre, a project conceived by the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, became the first Cuban medical institution to receive certification from the International Evaluation and Accreditation Council of the Union of Latin American and Caribbean Universities.