ELAM 10 Rafael Ferro Macias

ELAM 10 Rafael Ferro Macias is a faculty of the Escuela Latinamericana de Medicina (ELAM), (known as the Latin American School of Medicine) located in Sandino, in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba. The school in total has more than 19,000 students. ELAM was founded in 1999, and is the largest medical university in the world. The faculty at ELAM 10 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. All of these countries are in or close to the Caribbean except The Solomon Islands, Nauru and Vanuatu, which are all located in the Pacific. Also the students of this school are mostly from anglophone countries with the exception of Belize (which shares borders with Mexico and Guatemala) and Ecuador where Spanish is spoken natively, and Haiti where French and French Creole are the dominant languages.

In 2008, the school was under the jurisdiction of two leaders: Irma Martinez Silva, the Directora of the premedical programme and Nadia Macias Hernandez, the Decana of the medical programme