4 Years
1st to 3rd year: 4,392 hours 4th year: 12 mos.
September
English
Caloocan, MM
Given its Level II Reaccreditation status by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU), an external body that checks the quality standards of universities, the college continues to provide world-class, advanced, and safe quality education. From the traditional ways of examining the cadavers to using a high technology 3D dissection table called the Anatomage, specifically acquired to ensure the safety of students in the new normal without sacrificing the teaching and learning quality.
The university has its own hospital where all clinical clerkships are conducted. Our students will have the opportunity to experience being trained in an actual tertiary hospital before they face the real world of being a physician.
Become a Centralino doctor by applying now, or should you have any questions, feel free to chat with us.
Your path to saving lives starts here; become a holistic doctor through our Doctor of Medicine program. One of the seven pioneer medical schools in the Philippines, with an extensive alumni network and full support and exposure from our own partner tertiary hospital, the College of Medicine, will make you an exceptional doctor.
Community exposure is an experience-based strategy to run for four (4) weeks, wherein students in the health professions will have an opportunity to experience the way of life in the community, engage with the people, and discover the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats encountered by the community. These will allow the student to understand better the dynamics of community life, and the realization of the different community concerns through exposure to actual life situations, specifically in the deprived, depressed, and underprivileged community of Maysilo, Malabon City, and apply knowledge and skills to benefit the partner community. Community exposure is also one way of teaching students that developing trust with their patients “requires some understanding of the social, economic, psychological and cultural issues” these people face.
This program is under the supervision of the Department of Family and
Community Medicine wherein the student shall be assigned to join the Filipino clinical clerks as they are expected to initiate community-based interventions by encouraging community participation, which includes participatory action in research and training of barangay health workers, promoting sharing of responsibility to maintain the health of the people between the community and the Institution.
Students will promote maternal, childcare, and other public health topics related to Department of Health initiatives through lectures, interactive discussions, and video presentations. Community activities include public health lectures, mother’s classes, community diagnosis, family profiles, and health consultations. The conferences include Clinical Case Discussions Using Evidence-Based Medicine, Family Profiles, Community Diagnosis, and Industrial Visits. They will also get the opportunity to witness and engage in activities in other departments like Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics.
Students will utilize lectures, interactive discussions, and video presentations to promote maternal and child care, as well as other public health topics aligned with the programs of the Department of Health. Activities in the Community include: Public Health Lectures; Mother’s Class; Community Diagnosis; Family Profile; and health consultations. Conferences include: Clinical Case Discussions using Evidence Based Medicine; Family Profile; Community Diagnosis; and Industrial Visit. Students will also have a chance to observe and participate in activities in the other departments like Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pediatrics.
Applications must be received at least eight (8) months before the start of your selected elective. Please read the application procedure before applying.
Application must be submitted eight (8) months before the start of your chosen elective. All documents must be written in English or accompanied by an English translation. This should include the following:
1. Letter of support from the Dean of the medical scholi.
2. Copy of student’s current transcript
3. Letter of Recommendation
Immunizations and Health Records.
5. Proof of health insurance
6. Personal statement
7. Fill out the application form.
Please email us at medicine@mcu.edu.ph for inquiries
We look forward to receiving your applications.
Community Immersion is a two-week orientation under the Department of Family and Community Medicine that deals with Primary Health Care (PHC) principles, health promotion, and disease prevention. Students will participate in community diagnosis, prioritization, program planning, community organization, and social mobilization. Students (Clinical Clerks) encourage community participation, which includes participatory action research and training of barangay health workers, promoting sharing of responsibility to maintain the people’s health between the Community and the Institution.
Community Immersion is a two-week orientation under the Department of Family and Community Medicine that deals with the principles of Primary Health Care (PHC), health promotion, and disease prevention. Students will participate in community diagnosis, prioritization, program planning, community organization, and social mobilization. Students (Clinical Clerks) encourages community participation, which includes participatory action research and training of barangay health workers, promoting sharing of responsibility to maintain the health of the people between the Community and the Institution.
Students will utilize lectures (interactive discussions/video presentation) to promote mother’s class and public health topics. Activities in the Community include: Public Health Lectures, Mother’s Class, Community Diagnosis, Family Profile and health consultations. Conferences include: Clinical Case Discussions with Evidence Based Medicine, Family Profile, Community Diagnosis, Industrial Visit. The students will also have every three-day duty at the hospital to enhance their experiential training in triaging at the Out-Patient Department and emergency cases at the Emergency Room.
Objectives
Community Immersion is a two-week orientation under the Department of Family and Community Medicine that deals with the principles of Primary Health Care (PHC), health promotion, and disease prevention. Students will participate in community diagnosis, prioritization, program planning, community organization, and social mobilization. Students (Clinical Clerks) encourages community participation, which includes participatory action research and training of barangay health workers, promoting sharing of responsibility to maintain the health of the people between the Community and the Institution. Students will utilize lectures (interactive discussions/video presentation) to promote mother’s class and public health topics. Activities in the Community include: Public Health Lectures, Mother’s Class, Community Diagnosis, Family Profile and health consultations. Conferences include: Clinical Case Discussions with Evidence Based Medicine, Family Profile, Community Diagnosis, Industrial Visit. The students will also have every three-day duty at the hospital to enhance their experiential training in triaging at the Out-Patient Department and emergency cases at the Emergency Room.
| TIME/VENUE |
MONDAY |
TUESDAY |
WEDNESDAY |
THURSDAY |
FRIDAY |
SATURDAY |
| 8:00 AM | Endorsement rounds | Departure time for Maysilo, Malabon | Endorsement rounds | Endorsement rounds | Endorsement rounds | Endorsement rounds |
| 9:00 AM | Completion of charts |
-Adult Clinic -Mother’s class -livelihood program |
Completion of charts | Travel time to Maysilo, Malabon |
Completion of Requirements: -logbooks -census -charts -reports |
Academic Day -quizzes -exams -OSCE |
| 10:00 AM |
Lectures (WHO/DOH policies/ portfolios) |
Family Profile Presentation |
-Pedia clinic -Public Health Lecture -Chart Review -Family visit/Family Profile |
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| 11:00 AM | ||||||
| 12:00 NN | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | CLINICAL CLERK’S REVIEW | ||
| 1:00 PM | Completion of requirements | LUNCH |
Completion of Requirements: -logbooks -census -charts -reports |
LUNCH | Completion of requirements | |
| 2:00 PM |
-lecture -quiz (FCM/Biochem /OSCE/Exams) |
Community Diagnosis |
Family Case Discussion |
Clinical case discussion | ||
| 3:00 PM | ||||||
| 4:00 PM | ||||||
| 4:00 PM |
| TIME/VENUE | MONDAY MVL |
TUESDAY JDL |
WEDNESDAY |
THURSDAY MLBR |
FRIDAY SSA |
SATURDAY RDL |
| 8:00 AM | Endorsement rounds | Departure time for Maysilo, Malabon | Endorsement rounds | Endorsement rounds | Endorsement rounds | Endorsement rounds |
| 9:00 AM | Completion of charts | -Adult Clinic
-Mother’s class -livelihood program |
Completion of charts | Travel time to Maysilo, Malabon | Completion of Requirements:
-logbooks -census -charts -reports |
Academic Day -quizzes -exams -OSCE |
| 10:00 AM | Lectures
(WHO/DOH policies/ portfolios) |
Family Profile Presentation | -Pedia clinic -Public Health Lecture -Chart Review -Family visit/Family Profile |
|||
| 11:00 AM | ||||||
| 12:00 NN | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | CLINICAL CLERK’S REVIEW | ||
| 1:00 PM | Completion of requirements | LUNCH | Completion of Requirements:
-logbooks -census -charts -reports |
LUNCH | Completion of requirements | |
| 2:00 PM | -lecture -quiz (FCM/Biochem /OSCE/Exams) |
Family Case
Discussion |
Clinical case discussion | |||
| 3:00 PM | ||||||
| 4:00 PM | ||||||
| 4:00 PM |
Maria Lilybeth R. Tanchoco, MD, MBAH, FPSA, DPBPM, FPSO, FPSP
Dean, College of Medicine
Rosalie Remedios B. Ramirez, MD, MMHA, PhD, FPSO-HNS
College Secretary
Arthur T. Magboo, MD, PhD, MHPEd, DMD, FPSO-HNS
Head, Medical Education Unit
Anna Karenina V. Causapin, MD, MHPEd, FPSP, FPPS
Head, Curriculum and Instruction
Romana Donabel B. Bareng
Pediatrics
Christine Marie C. Bucad
Obstetrics and Gynecology // Sub-specialty: Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy
Anna Karenina V. Causapin
Pediatrics
Boris Jruing J. De Guzman
Internal Medicine
Janice D. De Leon
Family Medicine
Jemma Ma. Irene V. Echiverri
Internal Medicine
Edornie Elizabeth V. Garcia
Pediatrics
Charisse P. Guerrero
Obstetrics and Gynecology; OB-GYN Ultrasound
Cynthia P. Kapangyarihan
General Surgery
Edgardo C. Lazaro
ENT HNS
Mary Ann V. Leh
Family Medicine
Arthur T. Magboo
ENT HNS
Anamarie S. Manangan
Pediatrics
Marissa V. Nualla
Obstetrics and Gynecology OB-GYN Ultrasound
Erwin D. Palisoc
Ophthalmology Subspecialty: Neuro-Ophthalmology; Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Dante Noel P. Perez
Ophthalmology
Maria Leonora B. Raboc
Family Medicine
Rosalie Remedios B. Ramirez
Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery
Ma. Geraldine R. Ramos
Obstetrics and Gynecology and OB GYN Ultrasound
Marie Clare V. Robles
Pediatrics
Evelyn Sta. Cruz
Pediatric Neurology
Maria Lilybeth R. Tanchoco
Anesthesiology,Pain Medicine
Gary Genedel J. Uson
Internal Medicine
Ruth T. Villanueva
Neurology and Psychiatry
Marie Lucille A. Aniciete
Pediatrics
Suzuette S. Armin
Family Medicine
Celeste A. Asilo
Pediatrics
Eric Sherwin T. Basuil
Rehabilitation Medicine
Maria Imelda B. Batar
Psychiatry
John Paul A. Benitez
Anesthesia
Rosalinda Cosmas R. Benitez
Pathology
April Grace D. Berboso
Pediatrics
Ma. Rosario E. Bonagua
Family Medicine
Jane Eflyn L. Bunyi
Family Medicine
Judith G. Cabanela
Obstetrics and Gynecology Oncology
Cathleen Camille N. Cabrera
Ophthalmology
Merlina L. Cabrera
Anesthesia, Pain Medicine
Lily Ann H. Cabuling
Family Medicine
Katherine B. Camus
Psychiatry
Bea Barbara C. Carrascal
Internal Medicine
Ulga Luisa V. Casiño
Anaesthesiology
Emmanuel Tadeus S. Cruz
ENT HNS
Hecil A. Cruz
Psychiatry
Rodney M. Del Rio
Urology
Rowell Anthony B. Dela Cruz
Ophthalmology
Dwight Joseph A. Domingo
Internal Medicine
Francine Beatriz Lu Echiverri
Internal Medicine
Marivic M. Esguerra
Pediatric Cardiology
Rafael Angelo S. Fernandez
Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Jiffy Jones R. Garcia
Pediatrics
Norman S. Garcia
General Surgery
Dominador, III A. Garduño
ENT-HNS
Catherine G. Gironella
General Pediatrician
Fatima Cherry A. Gomez
None-General Practitioner
Michael B. Guerrero
General Surgery
Nellie D. Gundao
Pediatrics
Cesar B. Isidro
General Surgery
Carolina Caryl J. Javiniar
Internal Medicine
Richard C. Jordias
Obstetrics and Gynecology Maternal and Fetal
Aubhugn T. Labiano
Ophthalmology
Esmarliza T. Luzon
OB GYN Venereology
Ma. Luisa L. Malabanan
Pediatrics
Andrea Kristina G. Malvar
Rehabilitation Medicine
Josefina B. Marbella
Radiology
Sarie C. Marcial
Ophthalmology
Alvin G. Mariano
Pediatrics
Cecille P. Mata
Neurology
Jerome B. Mondala
Radiology
Niño Carlo M. Naidas
Ophthalmology
Nepthalie R. Ordoñez
Pediatrics
Mirasol Q. Pahutan
Radiology
Minnette A. Panganiban
Ophthalmology
Herbert G. Pascual
Pathology
Ildefonso V. Peczon, Jr.
Ophthalmology
Keithley Bryan A. Perez
ENT Head and Neck Surgery
Carlo Gene M. Poa
Rehabilitation Medicine
Benjamin Jose C. Quito
Internal Medicine
Maremel C. Quito
Obstetrics and Gynecology
John Kenneth C. Ramos
Pediatrician
Arthur Dessi E. Roman
Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine
Maria Jorquiza S. Salvador
Internal Medicine
Marjorie I. Santos
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dindohope B. Serrano
General Surgery
Annabelle M. Sinlao
Anesthesiology
Estela Marie C. Tanchoco
Clinical Pathology
Elizar C. Taplac
Surgical Endoscopy, Minimally Invasive Surgery
Valerie Anne T. Tesoro
Pathology
Janette S. Tolentino
Clinical Pathology
Monica Y. Tolentino
Anatomic Pathology
Enrico E. Tuy
Internal Medicine
Emmanuel P. Unay
General Surgery
Grace V. Villanueva
Family Medicine
Manuel Leon F. Villanueva
Pediatrics
