Luis Enrique Ricardo Diaz was one of the 497 graduates, this February 16, from the University of Medical Sciences of Holguin (UCMHo). With an academic index of 4.91 points, Suma Cum Laude and member of the Mario Muñoz Monroy Vanguard Movement, at the same time theb Vanguard Graduate in Research of the Stomatology Studies, having participated in 91 scientific events, with four publications, during his university formation.
In this regard, he explained that “although the road has been very difficult because we have faced major situations such as Covid-19, which interrupted our majoring, we took the step forward, we took on the challenge of the moment, with the day to day care of patients. For our parents and us, it is a very happy day.”
Although this forty-sixth graduation of health professionals was attended by graduates of the fields of Medicine and Stomatology, during the course of the week other graduates of middle-level technicians and short-cycle training programs took place, bringing the total number of graduates in the current academic year to more than one thousand, who will soon be incorporated into the health system of the territory.
New professionals, health, Holguín
Dr. Daniela Rodriguez Areces, a vanguard in Culture, stood out as an amateur artist of the dance group Vidanza, with which she won gold and silver medals in different festivals of amateur artists of the University Student Federation (FEU) at municipal and provincial level.
In theater, she won the Grand Prize at the Tierra Buena National Theater Festival and a gold medal at the National Festival of Amateur Artists of the FEU, where she was awarded the best female performance and the humor prize.
On how much she will miss her student years, she said that “after Covid, where the degree was extended to almost seven years, achieving the dream of being a doctor and working in what I like, of being able to fulfill myself professionally, feels spectacular. I will miss the university life, art, dancing, theater, studying, the professors, but I really feel that I have reached my goal, the endless shifts of the internship are behind me. Once graduated, as I was awarded the vertical internship in Nephrology, I will join this service of the Clinical Surgical Hospital Lucia Iñiguez Landín”.
The graduation was attended by the highest political and governmental authorities in the province, the health sector and especially paradigms of Holguin’s health, the Heroine of the Republic of Cuba Dr.C. Pura Avilés Cruz and doctors Pedro Martínez Mahique and Francisco González Celá. Also present was Mr. George Goodwin, Ambassador of the Republic of Antigua and Barbuda in Cuba.
The most integral graduates of the different specialties were recognized, 212 students were Suma Cum Laude awarded, 70 members of the Mario Muñoz Monroy Detachment, seven “Forjadores del Futuro” seals and 35 Scientific Merit Awards.
Medical Sciences Graduation, Holguín
The rector of this educational institution, Dr. Galina Galcerán Chacón in words to the graduates referred that “the challenges will continue and the values that they managed to include in their formation will mark their conduct. The medical profession requires a great personal effort, sacrifice, dedication and perseverance, which is why this center will always have its doors open to you so that you can continue to improve yourselves.
On behalf of the graduates from other nations, Dr. Phillessia Cataner Jean, from the Republic of Antigua and Barbuda, spoke. Doctor of Medicine Rafael Gámez Leyva, as the best overall graduate, dedicated a few words to those present.
The latter, with an academic index of 4.88 points, Suma Cum Laude, belonging to the Vanguard Movement Mario Muñoz Monroy, assistant student of the specialty of General Surgery, participated in 25 scientific events, with three publications.
He was also the winner of six Suma Cum Laude awards as a member of the UCMHo Judo team. He served as Brigade President, FEU Coordinator of the Health area, member of the Organizing Commission of the IX and X Congress of the FEU, vice president and president of the FEU of the University of Medical Sciences and secretary of the UJC of the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital.
Graduate, Medical Sciences, Holguin
Regarding the emotions he felt upon achieving this goal, he expressed that “it is difficult to explain what I feel because it sums up in a little more than an hour of graduation, more than six years lived to the fullest, for being marked by the pandemic, by many complexities, including social ones of which I had no precedents.
“Today, seeing me with a degree in my hands, I believe it is the greatest professional satisfaction I can have, it will never be compared to any other achievement, seeing my parents get excited, having had the honor of reading and representing all the graduates in the words of the best graduate makes this a memorable day”.
As expressed by the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, “medicine is a science that is incessantly revolutionized, one of those that most requires perhaps being aware of everything that happens, one of those that most requires man’s capacity for analysis and observation, one of those that can least stand routine”, and precisely that is the challenge that lies ahead for the new professionals.
Years of sleeplessness and dedication are behind them, laughter and joy return after times of tensions and worries to assume the working life that is about to begin, the one that should lead them to be more prepared professionals, ready to face and save lives and to serve others.
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