Performance
The Faculty is proclaimed Center of Excellence in the field of medical sciences by the Commission on Higher Education.
It has been producing several topnotchers in the national licensure exams for Filipino doctors and enjoyed its LEVEL 4 accreditation for many years. It is also the alma mater of several Secretaries of Health of the Philippines and several Presidents of the Philippine Medical Association, the largest organization of medical doctors in the country. The Faculty has also produced numerous hospital administrators, medical directors, clinical specialists & scientists, and medical professors in the Philippines and abroad. The Faculty garnered a passing rate of 99% in the Physician's Licensure Exam held last August 2009 and August 2010. The Faculty was also ranked as the only Asian medical school to be in the top 10 list of foreign medical institutions by the U.S. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates in 2007.
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