The University of Medical Sciences of Holguin (UCMHo in the Spanish acronym). Presented 38 professionals at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University General Hospital. With the Honorary Distinction for Cuban Education.
This recognition is granted to educators for the merits achieved and their active participation in the educational development of the territory. Who have maintained an exemplary attitude during more than two decades of sustained work in teaching.
Raúl Enrique García López, one of the distinguished.
Also with more than 60 years linked to the teaching profesión. Said that since he was a third-year medical student he taught classes and when he came to Holguin in 1965 he continued teaching at the Lenin. While taking the corresponding exams to reach the different teaching categories until he became a Principal Professor, which it currently holds.
“I can say that every now and then I meet doctors on the street who call me a teacher and in truth there have been many generations taught. I feel enormous satisfaction in seeing the generations that I have helped to form. Because it means that my work was not in vain. When you are teaching, you think about what will happen to these guys when they are medical specialists and it is a great satisfaction to see that they have really followed a very appropriate course,” concluded García.
Another of the recognized professors was Alberto Jesús Villavicencio Foguet. Who with more than 50 years of career in Medicine is a Consulting and Assistant profesor. “I have dedicated myself to teaching practically since I was a student until today. As long as I have strength, clarity of mind and feel good. I will carry out this work.
I feel that I am still considered and although I do not work for distinctions but to make agile, intelligent, regular and patriotic doctors. That is my kit, which my mother taught me, to whom I owe everything I know and do. It is my job to make a proper doctor. Wherever he comes and works.
When I see the new generations, I put my hand on my heart and say that it is my greatest satisfaction. There are countless joys that I receive daily from Punta de Maisí to Cabo de San Antonio,” Villavicencio said. This distinction was instituted by Law No. 17 of the National Assembly of People’s Power. It constitutes one of the main recognitions and encouragement to the teaching staff of the Ministries of Education and Higher Education.
The house of higher studies of Medical Sciences of Holguin attaches great importance to the fact that the professors of its faculty are recognized for their work. In addition to the delivery of this recognition. Moreover it pays tribute to the activities conceived in commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the hospital giant, to be held on November 7.
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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