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goodness! ive just read most of the posts in this thread! it has been very helpful in giving me an idea of the medical school pathway.
medicine has always been at the back of my mind but its only a few months ago that i decided to take medicine after my nursing board exams. i can really see myself as a doctor in the future no matter how hard the journey will be.
hmm.. anyway. are there any nursing graduates here (other than maia) who are contemplating about med school?
good God! the unit requirements seem tough! I only have 5 units in organic chem, 5 for human anatomy, 3 for physics, 3 for stat. the last time i studied trigonometry was when i was in junior high school! i hope i'll finish all of them next year, probably enroll at the nearby school which also have their own college of medicine but im not sure if its recognized by the WHO.
they say nmat is easy but i have browsed through the review book and i dont think it is. ha ha ha. anyway, i'll get through this. my dream school is ust. ive been there for two semesters and i just love the old main building and their library.
>and another thing, i also plan to practice in the us but i still dont even have a passport. jeez... its going to be a long ride.
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-->> im planning to apply at ust, feu, ue, and cim, and maybe st. lukes. up is just too much for me (hehehe). and i'll take nmat in april 2007
about the ust website: tnx! i didnt realize it was outdated
Have you been to other schools? Have you had the chance to compare facilities, laboratories, teaching hospitals, etc?
Hey everyone!
Just want people to know about the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, a product of the Ateneo de Manila University (Loyola Schools) and the New Medical City Hospital. They are currently accepting applicants for School Year 2007-2008. It will be a 5-year course which includes a Master's degree in Hospital Management and, if I'm not mistaken, one year of internship. It's a pretty sweet deal for 5 years in what would probably be the best medical school campus in the country (especially compared to other medical schools...hehe). Check this out: http://www.admu.edu.ph/index.php?p=24
Since next year will be the first year, word has it that students will be spending time between the Rockwell Campus in Makati and the New Medical building in Ortigas. No idea how they're going to do that, but that's what I've heard so far.
I'd have to admit this would be a risk, the program being new and all. But it might be worth considering as a choice. So far, everything looks good on paper and Ateneo has always had a good reputation when it comes to delivery. If I were just graduating from my BS, I'd seriously consider it as one of my options versus UST, UP and UE. Of course, when it comes to experience and reputation, Ateneo would be incomparable. It's faculty, however, are from these three schools. I'd have to say that I may be biased, being an Ateneo Alumna, but I just think that Ateneo might have an edge because of its ideal to train doctors also as leaders, which is something other medical schools do not seem have.
All the best to everyone!
I wonder what motivated Ateneo to integrate Medicine and Hospital Management since fresh grad doctors usually concentrate on the application rather than the management (business) side of it.
Best medical school campus in the country???
On a side note: If you want to become a doctor, you should learn to do with what are available at you. It's not a good idea to sell medical school on the basis of having an attractive building structure. This is probably why UP, UST, CIM and PLM graduates excel in the medical profession because their students -- aside from being smart and diligent -- are industrious and do not rely on spoon-fed learning method.
If the words are true, then that wouldn't make Ateneo an attractive medical school to go to. There was a study made several years ago about the plan to house the INTARMED students of UP at Diliman campus instead of current location, Manila. INTARMED students are the Top 40 qualifiers in the UPCAT, the toughest entrance exam to beat in the whole country (less than 8% make it out of the more than 80 thousand applicants). They are perceived to be country's brightest and smartest medical students. They graduate 2 years ahead of their peers. They are the valedictorians/salutatorians of the best high schools in the Philippines. They usually make it to the Dean's List, graduate with honors and land in the top 20 in the local medical board exams. Their existence in UP is contributing to UP's enormous prestige here and abroad.
The plan was abolished. The reason: it's not conducive for medical students to be traveling from one campus to the other especially in Metro Manila because travel time is very long.
I would say that going to Ateneo medical school is worth risking if you're not smart enough to get into UP, UST, PLM and UE, but do not risk a UP or UST diploma to a new and unproven medical degree provider because becoming a doctor is not about a game of risk especially if you can afford to go to top-notched medical schools.
I hate to burse the bubbles but the BS ECE program in Ateneo was a big flap, in case you didn't know. It never produced a 100% in the local board examination. For example, only 50% of its takers passed the board exam this year. Only 12 out of 27 passed in ECE board exam last year. The year before that was their worse.
Sometimes loyalty blinds you. Sometimes, it makes you stupid.
Experience is relative. CIM students can claim theirs is the best and so are the UST students.
When it comes to reputation, nobody beats UP, whether in the Philippines or abroad. I agree that Ateneo is reputable. But come on, let's face it, it can't be the most reputable. In fact, both DLSU and UST are more reputable than Ateneo whether in the Philippines or abroad. And whether we like it or not, when it comes to reputation, nobody beats UP. In the Philippines, the UP brand name is far and away the best brand name in all of academia. No other school even comes close in terms of sheer branding. Not DLSU, not UST, not MSU, not Ateneo, not anybody. This is not a close call by any means. Whether we like it or not, UP is the most famopus and the most prestigious university in the entire Philippines. It is the only well-respected Philippine university outside of the Philippines. And, it is the only Philippine university admitted to the prestigous, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). Check this out: http://apru.nus.edu.sg/about/members.htm
Your peers will salute to you if you are professional in what you do. To become a professional doctor, you perform your duty as medical practitioner heartily. You do not learn this thing in management school.
This thing of going to UST med (as opposed to elsewhere) is really growing on me, either the school is beginning to make more sense or I'm the one who is beginning to get obssessed with it. And the more information I get about this school, the more I get excited to actually *want* it.
Although UP Manila is the cheapest on the planet, at US$500 (Php 12,500 x 2 semesters) per year tuition (US$1,000 if you add $400 semesterl foreign fee), UST is still value-for-money school.
De La Salle is in Cavite, now how far is that from Manila ? ..
The place (house/flat/condo) I wanna stay in, I'd like to be able to just walk, so I don't have to put up with the traffic, as driving to school may be inconvenient on heavy traffic (which is quite frequent in Manila) and the flood (which is quite frequent as well) -- I surmise I'd have to use my vehicle (at any event I'd buy one) only a few times in a month -- which begs the question if I should own one -- or defer until clerkship years. If I hire a driver and laundry woman, that will cost Php6,000 a month for the driver and Php 500 per week for the laundry woman.
And I'd bet I would only be going clubbing every two weeks, so a taxi is probably less hassle (if not more convenient) than owning a vehicle and worrying about driving around the City of Manila and about, vandalism, theft, collissions -- and flood. It will probably feel like an audition in Survivors in Panama, living for 10 months in each of 4 years in Manila, until the novelty wears out -- and I will feel convinced that I am in Manila. I am a student in Manila. I am a medical student in Manila. How real could that get, I will have to pinch myself to check that I'm not dreaming, because half the time, I feel I'm half-dreaming when my obsession-compulsion gets on the over-drive knowing that getting an MD in Manila is highly attainable and quite likely! And then I will enter a five-minute half-awake half-dreaming episode. And I could almost smell and feel it. And if I'm not too picky, it could very well be a shoe-in.
Studying medicine in the Philippines and tourism are not mutually exclusive. They shouldn't be and I don't want them to be -- so I hope there are no shifting exams (like in FEU) where you have to write an exam at the end of each topic or block (or whatever they'd call it there) -- because when there's lots of things to see and places to go, studying and tourism are inseparable, or else, the former takes precedence over the latter. But there is no rush for leisure and pleasure. Talking about value-for-money all-in-one: studying medicine, tourism, leisure, pleasure, and at the end of it all, an MD degree.
Damn, this going to Philippine medical school thing is growing on me. I couldn't believe it. This is gotta be the least inexpensive medical school on the planet.
Help, I'm obssessed.
This thing of going to UST med (as opposed to elsewhere) is really growing on me, either the school is beginning to make more sense or I'm the one who is beginning to get obssessed with it. And the more information I get about this school, the more I get excited to actually *want* it.
Although UP Manila is the cheapest on the planet, at US$500 (Php 12,500 x 2 semesters) per year tuition (US$1,000 if you add $400 semesterl foreign fee), UST is still value-for-money school.
De La Salle is in Cavite, now how far is that from Manila ? ..
The place (house/flat/condo) I wanna stay in, I'd like to be able to just walk, so I don't have to put up with the traffic, as driving to school may be inconvenient on heavy traffic (which is quite frequent in Manila) and the flood (which is quite frequent as well) -- I surmise I'd have to use my vehicle (at any event I'd buy one) only a few times in a month -- which begs the question if I should own one -- or defer until clerkship years. If I hire a driver and laundry woman, that will cost Php6,000 a month for the driver and Php 500 per week for the laundry woman.
And I'd bet I would only be going clubbing every two weeks, so a taxi is probably less hassle (if not more convenient) than owning a vehicle and worrying about driving around the City of Manila and about, vandalism, theft, collissions -- and flood. It will probably feel like an audition in Survivors in Panama, living for 10 months in each of 4 years in Manila, until the novelty wears out -- and I will feel convinced that I am in Manila. I am a student in Manila. I am a medical student in Manila. How real could that get, I will have to pinch myself to check that I'm not dreaming, because half the time, I feel I'm half-dreaming when my obsession-compulsion gets on the over-drive knowing that getting an MD in Manila is highly attainable and quite likely! And then I will enter a five-minute half-awake half-dreaming episode. And I could almost smell and feel it. And if I'm not too picky, it could very well be a shoe-in.
Studying medicine in the Philippines and tourism are not mutually exclusive. They shouldn't be and I don't want them to be -- so I hope there are no shifting exams (like in FEU) where you have to write an exam at the end of each topic or block (or whatever they'd call it there) -- because when there's lots of things to see and places to go, studying and tourism are inseparable, or else, the former takes precedence over the latter. But there is no rush for leisure and pleasure. Talking about value-for-money all-in-one: studying medicine, tourism, leisure, pleasure, and at the end of it all, an MD degree.
Damn, this going to Philippine medical school thing is growing on me. I couldn't believe it. This is gotta be the least inexpensive medical school on the planet.
Help, I'm obssessed.
