This programs hinges on the contribution of several medical institutions which have adopted a specialization approach in order to broach orthopedics in a vaster or more general sense. On this road, Cuba has excelled with advanced therapeutic methods that range from outpatient assistance and traumatology, sport medicine and the development of prostheses to ortheosis techniques, all this much backed up by a longstanding research and teaching tradition that harks back to the early 1900s and has spread nationwide since the 1960s. This advance has praised Cuba's healthcare through an increasingly larger, more competitive and more updated scientific development that stands up to par with the world's finest.

State-of-the-art and national-reference centers like the Frank Pais International Orthopedics Center -home of the Iberian American School of Orthopedics and Traumatology under the leadership of celebrated Cuban professor and researcher Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras, who acts as president of Cuba's and Iberian America's orthopedics societies. Other cases in point is the Cira Garcia International Clinic, the Center for Medical and Surgical Research (CIMEQ), among others, that come together to offer patients a top-notch medical attention with high degrees of efficiency and effectiveness, let alone the comfort of the facilities, and the experience and expertise of the medical teams, commonplace among Cuban doctors and medical experts.