The responsibility of Medical Schools

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Title: The responsibility of Medical Schools
Creator: Ramos Augusto J.
Identifier: Editorial
Language: English
Source: The Journal of the Philippine Medical Association Volume 52 (Issue Nos. 9-10) September-October 1976
Year: 1976
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Fulltext: Published Under the Supervision of The Executive Council JOURNAL of the Philippine Medical Association J PM A VOL. 52, NOS. 9-10 SEPT.-OCT., 1970 EDITORIAL THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MEDICAL SCHOOLS If Medical Schools are to pursue their commitment and assume their important role in the progress of medicine in our country, their responsi bility to strive for and maintain quality basic medical education is of para mount concern. The maximum of efforts must be exerted continuously to provide Medical Schools with a competent faculty, adequate facilities for laboratories and research, and a well organized training hospital. An academic environment must exist and be preserved. It is probably be cause of these existing factors that medical students become more motiv ated, eventually successful graduates and grateful as well as loyal alumni. These alumni as a potent body may in turn contribute voluntarily and gen erously to support and further improve the Medical Schools. It is a well known fact, that institutions of higher learning such as Medical Schools abroad particularly in the advanced countries, are fortunate recipients or substantial funding and aid from their alumni, philantrophists, and founda tions who are truly and fully convinced of the schools' excellence and un doubted role in the progress and leadership of their country. Their own governments also contribute generously in this partnership. The future professional career of medical students is to a great extent dependent on the quality of basic medical education he had undergone. Inadequate basic education simply leads to mediocrity. It is not the few who become successful, but, the greatest number who are. 249 250 Ramos Sept.-Oct., 1976 J,P. M. A. The faculty must be well chosen and encouraged, for the quality of medical education is dependent on the quality of its. faculty. This is a critical and serious problem in our country. It cannot be overemphasized that the backbone of any institution of learning is its faculty. A medical school or any institution for that matter is only as good as its faculty. There is no substitute for a competent, responsive, and progressive faculty. In the not distant future, the standard of medical service and health care delivery will reflect the effects of what basic medical education our present undergraduates had. Whatever it maybe, our Medical Schools must provide the answer. A. J. RAMOS, M .D.
pages: 249-250