What Is the Future of Medical Residency in Haiti?

The hospital residency, the place where medical specialists are trained, is going through dark days since the closure of the main teaching hospitals. In reality, it is less the difficulties than the absence of a real plan to limit the damage that worries young doctors and medical students.

Claudy Junior Pierre
21 Aug 2025 — Lecture : 3 min.

The insecurity that has plagued the country for at least six years has caused the exodus of a large number of specialists, particularly in rare fields such as pulmonology, anatomical pathology, otorhinolaryngology, etc.

“More than 22% of the doctors trained by the University Hospital of Mirebalais have left the country,” the University Hospital of Mirebalais, heavily involved in specialist training, warned in March 2023.

To make matters worse, today the main training centers for specialists are under severe st

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