Accomplishments
The first graduate class of 1976 garnered an unprecedented 100% passing average in the Nursing Board examinations. Less than a year after becoming a university, the Commission on Higher Education, recognizing the “enormous contribution of the Our Lady of Fatima University in the growth and prominence of tertiary education in the country and the Asia-Pacific and its commitment through quality education, research and extension work” granted deregulated status to Our Lady of Fatima University through CHED Resolution No. 393-2003 dated October 27, 2003. College of Nursing of OLFU is acknowledged by the CHED as having a strong undergraduate program and its possession of the ability to develop its faculty and research center. An institution cited as a Center of Excellence, on the other hand, is a unit within any higher education institution (HEI) with a strong graduate program and an undergraduate program that meets the international standards of academic quality and excellence.
On 2010, Dean Arturo de Leon, the Dean of College of Dentistry has been elected as the President of the Philippine Dental Association (PDA) and the South East Asia Association of Dental Educators (SEAADE). Dean De Leon was the first independent candidate to run and be elected as President of PDA and the youngest President of SEAADE.
The Fatima College of Medicine is one of the Philippine's most distinguished centers for medical education and is constantly responding to the rapid changes in science and technology and the social environment. Fatima seeks to fulfill its commitment to produce competent, world class medical practitioners. It is the first and only Philippine medical school to have an institutional clerkship program with a foreign hospital. The University has sent over 100 medical students for clerkship training at the Brooklyn Medical Center and Peninsula Hospital in New York and Jackson Park Hospital in Chicago. Fatima has graduated more than 30,000 medical and allied medical health practitioners from all disciplines in 40 years of existence, and is a proof that makes Fatima a valuable contributor in the development of the medical and paramedical professions in the Philippines and abroad. During the 2011 Physician Licensure Examinations, the university made again a mark by dominating half of the list of top ten board passers.
On July 2011, College of Pharmacy showed exemplary results at the June 2011 licensure examinations as forty students passed the exam and received an over-all passing rate of 89%. The College of Computer Studies (CCS) under the deanship of Dr. Raymond S. Macatangga was also recognized making OLFU the first University in the Philippines to be recognized as a Novell Academic Training Partner (NATP).
The university also garnered four (4) Diamond, 1st Place awards and a Special Citation award for Dean Jose Jurel M. Nuevo, in the recently concluded Asian Conference for Academic Journals and Higher Education Research and Asian Conference for Research Journalism held at the Pryce Plaze Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City last August 2011 participated by 24 countries. Way back 2010, the university representatives also won Best International Oral Research Presentation Award for the paper entitled, "The Art and Science of Task Delegation in Critical Care: The Common Praxis among Junior and Senior Filipino Nurses" at the Diamond Hotel. OLFU has also won several research awards including the International Environment Research Award at the International Conference for Higher Education Research on May 2010 and International Environment Research Award during the International Conference for Higher Education Research held in Vigan City.
On January 2012, the graduates of the Our Lady of Fatima University’s College of Pharmacy took the licensure examinations where it garnered a 97.14% mark attesting its position as one of the country’s rapidly emerging reputable Pharmacy educational institution.
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