Objectives and Implementation Objectives A B C Enforcement: Republic Act No. 2382
Objectives and Implementation Objectives A B C Enforcement: Republic Act No. 2382
Objectives and Implementation Objectives A B C Enforcement: Republic Act No. 2382
ARTICLE I
Objectives and Implementation
SECTION 1. Objectives. — This Act provides for and shall govern (a) the
standardization and regulation of medical education; (b ) the examination for
registration of physicians; and (c) the supervision, control and regulation of the practice
of medicine in the Philippines. cdtai
The o cials acting as chairman and members of the Board of Medical Education
shall hold office during their incumbency in their respective positions.
SECTION 4. Compensation and Traveling Expenses . — The chairman and
members of the Board of Medical Education shall not be entitled to any compensation
except for traveling expenses in connection with their official duties as herein provided.
SECTION 5. Functions. — The functions of the Board of Medical Education shall
be:
(a) To determine and prescribe minimum requirements for admission into a
recognized college of medicine;
(b) To determine and prescribe requirements for minimum physical facilities
of colleges of medicine, to wit: buildings, including hospitals,
equipment and supplies, apparatus, instruments, appliances,
laboratories, bed capacity for instruction purposes, operating and
delivery rooms, facilities for out-patient services, and others, used for
didactic and practical instructions in accordance with modern trends;
(c) To determine and prescribe the minimum number and the minimum
quali cations of teaching personnel, including student-teacher ratio
and curriculum;
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(d) To determine and prescribe the number of students who should be
allowed to take up the preparatory course taking into account the
capacity of the different recognized colleges of medicine. cdasia
English 12
Latin 3
Mathematics, including Accounting and
Statistics 9
Philosophy, including Psychology and
Logic 12
Zoology and Botany 15
Physics 8
Chemistry 21
Library Science 1
Humanities and Social Sciences 12
Twelve units of Spanish shall be required pursuant to Republic Act Numbered
Seven hundred nine; but commencing with the academic year nineteen hundred sixty to
nineteen hundred sixty-one, twenty-four units of Spanish shall be required pursuant to
Republic Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and eighty-one as cultural, social and
nationalistic studies.
Provided, That the following students may be permitted to complete the
aforesaid preparatory medical course in shorter periods as follows:
(a) Students whose general average is below eighty-five per cent but without
any grade of failure or condition may be allowed to pursue and nish
the course in three academic years and the intervening summer
sessions; and
(b) Students whose general average is eighty- ve per cent or over may be
permitted to nish the course in three academic years by allowing
them to take each semester the overload permitted to bright
students under existing regulations of the Bureau of Private Schools.
Provided, That upon failure to maintain the general average of eighty- ve per
cent, students under (b ) shall automatically revert to the category of students under (a)
and those under (a), upon having any grade of failure or condition, shall automatically
revert to the category of students required to pursue the preparatory course in four
years mentioned above. acd
The medical course shall be at least ve years, including not less than eleven
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rotating internship in an approved hospital, and shall consist of the following subjects:
Anatomy
Physiology
Biochemistry and Nutrition
Pharmacology
Microbiology
Parasitology
Medicine and Therapeutics
Genycology
Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology
Pediatrics
Obstetrics
Surgery
Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Legal Medicine, including Medical Jurisprudence and Ethics.
For the purposes of this Act, the term "College of Medicine" shall mean to include
faculty of medicine, institute of medicine, school of medicine or other similar institution
offering a complete medical course leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine or its
equivalent.
Every college of medicine must keep a complete record of enrollment, grades
and turnover, and must publish each year a catalogue giving the following information:
1. Date of publication
2. Calendar for the academic year
3. Faculty roll indicating whether on full time part time basis
4. Requirements of admission
5. Grading system
6. Requirements for promotion
7. Requirements for graduation
8. Medical hours per academic year by departments
9. Schedule hours per academic year by departments
10. Number of students enrolled in each class.
ARTICLE III
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The Board of Medical Examiners; Registration of Physicians
SECTION 8. Prerequisite to the Practice of Medicine. — No person shall engage in
the practice of medicine in the Philippines unless he is at least twenty-one years of age,
has satisfactorily passed the corresponding Board Examination, and is a holder of a
valid Certi cate of Registration duly issued to him by the Board of Medical Examiners.
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(a) Physicians and surgeons from other countries called in consultation only
and exclusively in speci c and de nite cases, or those attached to
international bodies or organization assigned to perform certain
de nite work in the Philippines provided they shall limit their practice
to the speci c work assigned to them and provided further they shall
secure a previous authorization from the Board of Medical Examiners.
(b) Commissioned medical o cers of the United States armed forces
stationed in the Philippines while rendering service as such only for
the members of the said armed forces and within the limit of their
own respective territorial jurisdiction.
(c) Foreign physicians employed as exchange professors in special
branches of medicine or surgery whose service may in the discretion
of the Board of Medical Education, be necessary.
(d) Medical students who have completed the rst four years of medical
course, graduates of medicine and registered nurses who may be
given limited and special authorization by the Secretary of Health to
render medical services during epidemics or national emergencies
whenever the services of duly registered physicians are not available.
Such authorization shall automatically cease when the epidemic or
national emergency is declared terminated by the Secretary of Health.
SECTION 13. The Board of Medical Examiners, Its Composition and Duties. —
The Board of Medical Examiners shall be composed of six members to be appointed
by the President of the Philippines from a con dential list of not more than twelve
names approved and submitted by the executive council of the Philippine Medical
Association, after due consultation with other medical associations, during the months
of April and October of each year. The chairman of the Board shall be elected from
among themselves by the member at a meeting called for the purpose. The President
of the Philippines shall ll any vacancy that may occur during any examination from the
list of names submitted by the Philippine Medical Association in accordance with the
provisions of this Act.
No examiner shall handle the examinations in more than four subjects or groups
of subjects as hereinafter provided. The distribution of subject to each member shall
be agreed upon at a meeting called by the chairman for the purpose. The examination
papers shall be under the custody of the Commissioner of Civil Service or his duly
authorized representative, and shall be distributed to each member of the Board who
shall correct, grade, and sign, and submit them to the said Commissioner within one
hundred twenty days from the date of the termination of the examinations. casia
A nal meeting of the Board for the deliberation and approval of the grades shall
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be called by the Commissioner of Civil Service immediately after receipt of the records
from the members of the Board of Medical Examiners. The secretary of the Board shall
submit to the President of the Philippines for approval the names of the successful
candidates as having been duly quali ed for licensure in alphabetical order, without
stating the ratings obtained by each.
SECTION 14. Quali cations of Examiners . — No person shall be appointed a
member of the Board of Medical Examiners unless he or she (1) is a natural-born citizen
of the Philippines, (2) is a duly registered physician in the Philippines, (3) has been in the
practice of medicine for at least ten years, (4) is of good moral character and of
recognized standing in the medical profession, (5) is not a member of the faculty of any
medical school and has no pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, in any college of
medicine or in any institution where any branch of medicine is taught, at the time of his
appointment: Provided, That of the six members to be appointed, not more than two
shall be graduates of the same institution and not more than three shall be government
physicians.
SECTION 15. Tenure of O ce and Compensation of Members . — The members
of the Board of Medical Examiners shall hold o ce for one year: Provided, That any
member may be reappointed for not more than one year. Each member shall receive as
compensation ten pesos for each candidate examined for registration as physician, and
ve pesos for each candidate examined in the preliminary or nal physician
examination.
The President of the Philippines, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner
of Civil Service , after due investigation, may remove any member of the Board of
Medical Examiners for neglect of duty, incompetency, or unprofessional or
dishonorable conduct. acd
SECTION 16. Executive O cer and Secretary of the Board . — The Secretary of
the Boards of Examiners appointed in accordance with section ten of Act Numbered
Four thousand seven, as amended, shall also be the secretary of the Board of Medical
Examiners, who shall keep all the records, including examination papers, and the
minutes of the deliberations of the Board. He shall also keep a register of all persons to
whom certi cates of registration has been granted; set forth the name, sex, age, and
place of birth of each, place of business, post o ce address, the name of the medical
college or university from which he graduated or in which he had studied, together with
time spent in the study of the profession elsewhere, the name of the country where the
institution is located which had granted to him the degree or certi cate of attendance
upon clinic and all lectures in medicine and surgery, and all other degrees granted to
him from institutions of learning. He shall keep an up-to-date registration book of all
duly registered physicians in the Philippines. He shall furnish copies of all examination
questions and ratings in each subject of the respective candidates in the physicians
examination, one month after the release of the list of successful examinees, to the
deans of the different colleges of medicine exclusively for the information and guidance
of the faculties thereof. This report shall be considered as restricted information. Any
school which violates this rule shall be deprived of such privilege. The secretary of the
Board shall likewise keep a record of all registered medical students. He shall keep all
the records and proceedings, and issue and receive all papers in connection with any
and all complaints presented to the Board. cdtai
SECTION 17. Rules and Regulations. — The Board of Medical Examiners, with the
approval of the Commissioner of Civil Service, shall promulgate such rules and
regulations as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the examinations, correction
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of examination papers, and registration of physicians. The Commissioner shall
supervise each Board examination and enforce the said rules and regulations. These
rules and regulations shall take effect fteen days after the date of their publication in
the O cial Gazette and shall not be changed within sixty days immediately before any
examination. Such rules and regulations shall be printed and distributed for the
information and guidance of all concerned.
SECTION 18. Dates of Examinations. — The Board of Medical Examiners shall
give examinations for the registration of physicians, one in May and one in November
every year, in the City of Manila or any of its suburbs after giving not less than ten days'
notice to each candidate who had led his name and address with the secretary of the
Board.
SECTION 19. Fees. — The secretary of the Board, under the supervision of the
Commissioner of Civil Service, shall collect from each candidate the following fees:
All fees paid as provided herein shall accrue to the funds of the Board of Medical
Examiners and be expended for the payment of the compensation of the members
thereof. No fees other than those provided herein shall be paid to the Board.
SECTION 20. Issuance of Certi cate of Registration, Grounds for Refusal of
Same. — The Commissioner of Civil Service and the secretary of the Board of Medical
Examiners shall sign jointly and issue certi cates of registration to those who have
satisfactorily complied with the requirements of the Board. They shall not issue a
certi cate of registration to any candidate who has been convicted by a court of
competent jurisdiction of any criminal offense involving moral turpitude, or has been
found guilty of immoral or dishonorable conduct after he due investigation by the Board
of Medical Examiners, or has been declared to be of unsound mind.
SECTION 21. Scope of Examination. — The examination for the registration of
physicians shall consist of the following subjects: (1) Anatomy and Histology, (2)
Physiology, (3) Biochemistry, (4) Microbiology and Parasitology, (5) Pharcology and
Therapeutics, (6) Pathology, (7) Medicine, (8) Obstetrics and Gynecology, (9) Pediatrics
and Nutrition, (10) Surgery and Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Rhinology, (11)
Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and (12) Legal Medicine, Ethics and Medical
Jurisprudence: Provided, however, That the examination questions in each subject or
group of subject shall at least be ten in number: Provided, further, That the examination
questions in Medicine shall include at least three from the following branches:
Infectious diseases, Neurology, Dermatology, Allergy, Endocrinology and Cardio-
Vascular diseases: Provided, nally , That the examination questions in Surgery shall
include at least four questions from the following: Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology,
Laryngology, Orthopedic Surgery and Anesthesiology.
The questions shall be the same for all applicants. All answers must be written
either in English or Spanish. No name of the examinee shall appear in the examination
paper but the examiners shall devise a system whereby each applicant can be identi ed
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by number only. acd
SECTION 23. Procedure and Rules. — Within ve days after the lling of written
charges under oath, the respondent physician shall be furnished a copy thereof, without
requiring him or her to answer the same, and the Board shall conduct the investigation
within ve days after the receipt of such copy by the respondent. The investigation shall
be completed as soon as practicable.
SECTION 24. Grounds for Reprimand, Suspension or Revocation of Registration
Certificate. — Any of the following shall be su cient ground for reprimanding a
physician, or for suspending or revoking a certificate of registration as physician:
(1) Conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction of any criminal offense
involving moral turpitude;
(2) Immoral or dishonorable conduct;
(3) Insanity;
(4) Fraud in the acquisition of the certificate of registration;
(5) Gross negligence, ignorance or incompetence in the practice of his or
her profession resulting in an injury to or death of the patient;
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(6) Addiction to alcoholic beverages or to any habit forming drug rendering
him or her incompetent to practice his or her profession, or to any
form of gambling;
(7) False or extravagant or unethical advertisements wherein other things
than his name, profession, limitation of practice, clinic hours, o ce
and home address, are mentioned.
(8) Performance of or aiding in any criminal abortion;
(9) Knowingly issuing any false medical certificate;
(10) Issuing any statement or spreading any news or rumor which is
derogatory to the character and reputation of another physician
without justifiable motive;
(11) Aiding or acting as a dummy of an unquali ed or unregistered person
to practise medicine; cdt
Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 55, No. 34, p. 6944 on August 24, 1959