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UP College of Medicine to require return service for all graduates |
Monday, August 4, 2008
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All graduates of the University of the Philippines-Manila (UPM) College of Medicine will soon be required to render a three-year return service to the country after graduating and obtaining a medical license. The new policy is expected to cover incoming medical students beginning academic year 2009-2010.
Under the policy, applicants to the College need to sign a contract as part of requirements for their admission to the college. The contract stipulates a return service, which may be in the form of public service, research, or private practice in any part of the Philippines, after obtaining a Philippine medical license. As part of the return service, a graduate may choose to undergo post-graduate residency and/or fellowship training in any government institution in Metro Manila or in any public or private institution outside Metro Manila.
The return service should be completed within five years from graduation.
Graduates who fail to comply will be required to pay a penalty, which will be double the value of the amount of state subsidy used for their education, with interest at legal rates.
When implemented in 2009-2010, the mandatory return service by the new MDs will begin by 2014. This means that those who will pass the UP College Entrance Test (UPCAT) scheduled on August 2 and 3 this year and who will apply and qualify for the College of Medicine’s Intarmed program will sign the contract—with the conformity of their parents or legal guardians in the case of minors. This will also apply to lateral entrants to the regular MD program next year.
Lateral entrants are those who apply to the MD program, Year Level 3, after completion of their 4-year baccalaureate course.
The proposal was approved by the UP Board of Regents, the final approving authority in the University, during its 1,234th meeting on July 31, 2008 in UPM. The new admissions requirement was approved on June 25, 2008 and amended on July 25, 2008 by the University Council of UPM.
College Dean Alberto Roxas, defending the proposal during the UP President’s Advisory Council meeting on July 14, 2008, said the mandatory return service may result in the loss of a few good students, but will assure that 480 UP medical doctors will be serving the country at any given time. The mission and vision of UPM College of Medicine imposes upon it a social obligation to address the current dearth of human resources for health in the underserved and rural areas of the country.
Currently, the College has an existing regionalization program, which also legally binds students to a return service contract. Students who select this option upon application for admission into the college and are admitted must comply with separate guidelines under the program’s Acceptance to Service and Assumption of Liability.
The implementing rules and regulations of the newly-approved Return Service Obligation will be formulated by a Return Service Committee subject for approval by UP authorities.
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