Below is a letter from Dr. Doris Mendoza, the Founding Dean of Adventist University of the Philippines College of Medicine,shared to us by Dr. Alfonso Miguel,Jr.: Adventist University of the Philippines College of Medicine 24 December 2014 My Dear AUPCOM Faculty, Tidings of Great Joy!! As we celebrate Christs birthday this Christmas, let us especially thank our Almighty God that in His perfect time He has answered our fervent prayers to open our College of Medicine. The rigorous preparations and the long wait have made the much-awaited good news sweeter. The official CHED announcement came just before the Christmas break last week, in time for the Public Hearing on the new PSG (provisions, standards, and guidelines) for Medical Schools held at the PMA Auditorium last December 19, which all medical school deans and department chairs in the country had to attend. The fact that the final GO signal has been given means that we will all gear up for our very first batch of medical students for the opening of classes in August 2015. Our global sister institution, the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California, will be sending faculty-lecturers from January to June 2015, to continue the program they had started since 2013 toward our faculty development training. We will send you announcements of the schedule and topics and venue as soon as we finalize the arrangements with them. By middle of January, we will be accepting applications to our medical school. Soon thereafter, our appointed admissions committee will be hard at work to stringently select the top applicants, based on the admissions criteria our AUPCOM leadership has established (also in close consultation with admissions experts of Loma Linda University School of Medicine), to ensure that we get the very best material for our showcase first batch of students, and more importantly ascertain that our vision/mission/philosophy as a God-ordained medical school will never be compromised. Our ultimate goal, our intended outcome, is to produce the 5-star physician described by the WHO and the CHED, who is a clinician, an academician, a researcher, a social mobilizer, and a manager-administrator. As a medical graduate of AUPCOM, in addition to the above, ours will be a physician missionary who will heal both body and spirit, as exemplified in our motto: Through Christ, Healing and Wholeness. Kindly await my future announcements, but meanwhile have a HAPPY and JOYOUS CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR Celebrations!!! To God be the Glory! In Christs service, Dr. Doris Mendoza
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 17:17:04 +0000
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