The University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center Inc. (UERMMMCI) is a combined campus and health service institution that continues to be a paragon of topnotch medical learning and first-rate service in the Philippines.
Starting out as the UE College of Medicine in 1956, right on its permanent place along Aurora Boulevard in Quezon City, the college became a nonstock, nonprofit educational corporation in 1957 and was renamed in honor of the late Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay.
At the unveiling of the commemorative bust of UERMMMCI’s namesake, President Ramon F. Magsaysay Sr. with (from far right) UERM Trustee and PAL President Jaime Bautista, then Speaker of the House Sonny Belmonte, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee and then Isabela Governor Grace Padaca, Senator and UERM Trustee Ramon Magsaysay Jr. and (far left) UERM President Romeo Divinagracia, among others
Through its Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Physical Therapy and its Graduate School, UERMMMCI has molded over 15,000 students into world-class physicians, nurses, and physical therapists, as well as administrators, faculty members, and other professionals working in industries within and beyond the health sector, both locally and globally. Many of them topped the licensure examinations of the Philippines’ Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
The College of Medicine offers a synchronized, discipline-based curriculum for its Doctor of Medicine program, and was cited by the PRC with an Award for Excellence for outstanding performance in the 2011 licensure examination.
The College of Nursing, on the other hand, is certified as a Center of Excellence by the Commission on Higher Education. The college’s undergraduate nursing program has produced countless nurses and has consistently been one of the top performing nursing schools in the Philippines according to the PRC.
Fresh graduates of UERM are seen at a commencement exercise at the PICC Plenary Hall.
Meanwhile, the College of Physical Therapy has the distinction of being the first academic institution in the Philippines (and only 12th in the world) to offer an undergraduate prosthetics and orthotics program. This program gears toward meeting the special needs of persons with disability.
The Graduate School offers seven master’s programs; namely, internal medicine, public health, nursing, Asian health practices, tropical medicine, and health science education.
The UERMMMCI Hospital, which celebrates its 52nd anniversary this January, is a combined teaching-charity and pay hospital, and provides a diverse clinical experience to students through the competence of its healthcare professionals, the variety of clinical cases, and its modern facilities. It also offers patients quality care and value for their money. The hospital relaunched its outpatient clinics last June 2011 as the P.O. Domingo Outpatient Services. Named after UERM’s late chairman and CEO, the refurbished clinics are now adjacent to the hospital and provide optimum service to charity patients.
The UERMMMCI’s brand of quality education and patient care represent the height of medical academia and practice. It has served hundreds of thousands of patients and will continue to do so through its many graduates for many years into the future.
For more information, visit www.uerm.edu.ph.
