{"id":143815,"date":"2022-09-14T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=143815"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:25","slug":"unequal-opportunities-for-dutch-caribbean-students-in-medical-programmes-despite-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2022\/09\/14\/unequal-opportunities-for-dutch-caribbean-students-in-medical-programmes-despite-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Unequal opportunities for Dutch-Caribbean students in medical programmes, despite shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite massive shortages of medical specialists, students from the Caribbean part of the Kingdom have very limited opportunities to enrol in medical programmes. This conclusion stems from multiple studies that were presented during a lecture by the Antilles Association of Medical Professionals.<\/p>\n

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A warm mix of Dutch and Papiamento can be heard when some 30 students, doctors, pharmacists and other biomedical scientists meet at the Erasmus MC\u2019s education centre on Saturday afternoon. Sheeney Magdalena (21) from Cura\u00e7ao has just finished her Bachelor\u2019s in Medicine at VU University Amsterdam and, following a minor in Business at Nyenrode University, she is now also pursuing the Master\u2019s in Healthcare Management at EUR. This broad orientation has a clear purpose. \u201cI want to help Cura\u00e7ao. And if I \u2018just\u2019 become a doctor, I\u2019ll fail on the island. You have to bring more knowledge and skills than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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