Education
PRC Nursing Board Exam Result July 2010
The PRC Nursing Board Exam Result was released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) earlier with 37, 679 out of 91, 008 passed or 41%. The Nurse Licensure Examination was given last July 2010, in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Dagupan, Davao, Iloilo, La Union, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Tacloban, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga.
The list of successful examinees can be found here.
A nursing graduate from Ateneo de Naga topped the PRC nursing board exam, Rayan Abogado Oliva with a rating of 36.80 percent. The top 10 can be found here. Congratulations to all who have passed.
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Top Performing Schools on the August 2010 Physician Licensure Examination
Here are the Top Performing Schools on the August 2010 Physician Licensure Examination with 50 or more examinees and with at least 80% passing rate.
| 1 | UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS | 365 | 361 | 99.00 % |
| 2 | WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY – LA PAZ | 87 | 85 | 98.00 % |
| 3 | UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES – MANILA | 154 | 149 | 97.00 % |
| 4 | PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG MAYNILA | 113 | 109 | 96.00 % |
| 5 | SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY | 50 | 47 | 94.00 % |
| 6 | DAVAO MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION | 65 | 58 | 89.00 % |
| 7 | XAVIER UNIVERSITY | 52 | 46 | 88.00 % |
| 8 | CEBU DOCTORS UNIVERSITY –COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | 50 | 41 | 82.00 % |
| 9 | UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST RAMON MAGSAYSAY MEM. MEDICAL CTR. | 170 | 138 | 81.00 % |
The Mindanao State University, my Alma Mater got an 86% passing rate but because we only had 24 examinees, we didn’t make it to the list of top performing school. Anyways, congrats to all who passed the August 2010 Physician Licensure Examination.
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PRC Physician Board Exam Results for August 2010
The physician licensure examination for August 2010 has now ended – after a tiring, at least 4 months of review, sleepless nights and agonizing days. I’m wishing all of my friends who took the exam – the best luck and God’s blessing for you all. After months of hardship, it’s now time to reap the fruits of your labor. What’s more agonizing than the months of review and the exam per se, is the waiting time for the release of the result – it will be the longest 3 days of your life.
The Physician licensure exam result for August 2010 is expected to be released on Wednesday, usually 3 days after the last day of examination. I will update this blog when the result come out, so subscribe to my feeds.
Update:
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 1,597 out of 2,300 passed the Physician (Complete and Finals with Prelims) Licensure Examination given by the Board of Medicine in the cities of Manila, Cebu and Davao this August 2010. No one passed in the 19 examinees who took the Preliminary Examinations . The members of the Board of Medicine who gave the licensure examinations are, Dr. Mildred N. Pareja, Chairman; Dr. Florentino C. Doble, Dr. Restituto C. De Ocampo, Dr. Edgardo T. Fernando, Dr. Miguel L. Noche Jr. and Dr. Jose Y. Cueto, Jr. , Members. The results were released in three (3) working days from the last day of examinations. Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will start on Monday, August 23, 2010 but not later than August 27, 2010. Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2010-2013. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals . The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board on Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon at the Plenary Hall of the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Roxas Blvd., Manila. Registration for membership with the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) will start on Monday, August 23, 2010. The top performing schools in the August 2010 Physician Licensure Examination as per Commission Resolution No. 2010-547 series of 2010.
For a complete list of examinees: http://www.prc.gov.ph/documents/PHYS0810se.pdf
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Free Medical E-Books for Doctors and Medical Students on the Go
Medical iSilo Depot is a collection of medical documents created for use with the iSilo, a highly versatile document reader available for Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, Sybmain UIQ, Symbian Series 60, and Window CE Handheld PC handhelds, as well as for Windows computers.
Medical iSilo Depot has a collection of more than 150 iSilo documents for the medical PDA user and more than 100 are free! These documents are useful for doctors and medical students on the go for quick references while they are away from their books.
MemoWare also offers free medicinel e-books for your palm OS and pocket PC.
iSilo’s latest version 4.32 is available for download at their website as shareware.
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Physician Licensure/Board Exam Result February 2010 Result
The Professional Regulations Commission is said to release the official list of board passers from the recently held Physicians Licensure Examination done last February 14-15 and 21-22, 2010 on Thursday. Usually the results are released 3 days after the examination, however it can be as early as 2 days, depending on the number of examinees.
Visit this blog for an updated list soon! Can’t wait to see the result because some of my friends and co-PGI’s from Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center took the said exam. I’m pretty sure they’re going to be licensed doctors in a few hours.
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Free eBook downloads
Ever since I posted about free medical e-books on my other blog, it has received a lot of views from people searching for, well, free medical e-books. With the increasing costs of books today, it’s no wonder that people sort to free, even considered illegal downloads of these copyrighted materials.
Not only the students from medical field are in need of free resources and e-books, those that works on the industrial, information technology and engineering courses also source out for free e-books.
Well, the search ends as eBookee.com provides you a vast collection of free e-books ranging from medical and health fields, to IT programming and other technical fields, to law, to engineering, etc. It basically contains a wide collection of ebooks for all types of students and fields. The concept of the eBookee community is file-sharing using filehosting sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, and the like.
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On Post-Graduate Intership
Time flies so fast. Four years ago, I was a struggling medical student. I couldn’t believe that I actually managed to surpass the trials medical education entailed. I will be an intern in the next 2 weeks! But I don’t know if I should breath for relief or sigh for anticipation and worries. I know that finishing my four years in medical college and entering internship mean that I am facing a tougher life and a greater responsibility.
When you are an intern, you are expected to have acquired most, if not all, the knowledge you need from your four years in medical education – that’s a big responsibility you say. Being admitted to a national hospital (in Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center) makes me worried all the more.
However, Nietzche’s said that “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” This has been my motto in life ever since I started my medical education.
I am crossing my fingers for this new chapter of my life. I know prayers and perseverance will do the trick.
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To train at a public or private hospital?
One of our juniors asked which is better for training or internship, private or public hospital? And this question has been in my head also since the start of our post-graduate internship application.
I have been exposed to both private and public hospitals during our clerkship. I am now at the ancillary department so I am already out of hospital duties (yehey!).
To answer the question, I had to ask these things to myself:
1. Do I prefer toxic or benign duties?
Public hospitals cater for the common people so it is expected that you’ll have toxic duties. But in return, you are exposed to more learning: you get to encounter several cases, including the rare ones. On the other hand, private hospitals are expectedly benign, well except maybe for some selected large hospitals.
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How I got through with expenses at med school?
Before I entered medical school, I have already anticipated about the expenses it will entail. I have applied for several scholarships but I was not qualified to most of them because of my parents’ income. Also, I belong to the mediocre, so my grades usually could not meet the cut off for these scholarships. I wanted to apply for Pinoy MD Program by the Department of Health, but the program was offered during our third year and it exclusively catered to indigenous people (well, I could qualify to it because I’m a Maranao), local health workers, barangay health workers, Department of Health employees or their children.
My parents are the sole provider for my books and sometimes, I feel guilty that at my age, they still provide me everything. I should be working at 23. I wanted to help my parents so I started exploring possibilities to help them.
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