Abstract

PANCORBO SANDOVAL, Enrique Armando; GONZALEZ LA NUEZ, Olga; SUAREZ SURI, Dr. C  and  CANETE VILLAFRANCA, Roberto. Doctor Armando Amable Pancorbo Pancorbo. Crowning figure of the high medical teaching in Matanzas. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2019, vol.41, n.1, pp. 292-299. ISSN 1684-1824.

January 6th 1969 is a notorious date in the province of Matanzas because high medical education began that day in the province with the arrival of 32 sixth-year students of the medicine curriculum. The teaching vice-direction in the province of Matanzas was then headed by Doctor Armando Amable Pancorbo Pancorbo, specialist in Pediatrics, who directed the starting process and devoted his efforts to it. Due to his human and revolutionary qualities, he was assigned many responsibilities through his long professional life, some of them related to his specialty and others related to the development of the high medical education, estimated as one of his highest achievements. Be this a deserved biographical sketch for a people who consecrated his life to public health in the province of Matanzas, and who was loved and admired by his coworkers, his patients, his students and by the members of his family. He devoted his love to all of them.

Keywords : Armando Amable Pancorbo Pancorbo; medical teaching; Matanzas; doctor; pediatrician.