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The SHS Step-Ladder Curriculum

The innovative step-ladder curriculum, the first of its kind in Asia is the main feature of the school’s academic program, and has been known to be very effective in addressing health manpower problems in the country. It is competency-based and community-based curriculum which integrates the training of the broad range of health manpower from the midwife, nurse, nurse practitioner and Doctor of Medicine in a single, sequential and continuous curriculum. This strategy has been used as a model by several community-based health training programs worldwide.

After seven quarters (11 weeks/quarter) of training, the student shall have acquired the knowledge and skills of a midwife and earns the certificate in Community Health Work (CHW) which qualifies him/her to practice midwifery after passing the Midwifery Licensure Examination. A Student who go on for another five quarters of study graduate with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) which qualifies him/her to practice nursing after passing the Nurse Licensure Examination. Two more quarters of study will qualify the student as local counterpart of the nurse practitioner in other countries. This level of the curriculum however is under study. The final level of the curriculum is the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program. It consists of a yearly interval of didactics, clinical and community experiences over a period of five years. After completing the prescribed period of study, the student is now qualified to take the Physicians Licensure Examination and subsequently practice medicine after passing the examinations.

Service Leaves

In between program levels, the students are required to undertake service leaves in their home communities for an indefinite duration or a minimum of three months. The concept of service leave is derived from the need to integrate the instructional content and processes learned in school into a unified and understandable whole in the communities they serve. The service leave offers the following opportunities:

For the students

• To enrich their educational experience with actual service at several levels of the curricular ladder;
• To be continuously oriented with the dynamic interplay of forces that affect the development of their communities;
• To reflect on the institutional goals and instructional objectives of the School and on the different academic, psychological and situational demands on the capabilities and competencies as health professionals.
• To strengthen commitment and renew the bond generated between the scholar and the community generated during the recruitment.

For the School

• To assess the relevance of its philosophy, objectives, program content, methods and strategies;
• To strengthen its linkages with the DOH, DILG and various Local Government Units;
• To strengthen partnership with communities in the training of their scholars;
• To provide opportunities for the faculty to keep in touch with the realities in the communities and strengthen their commitment to the concept of the school.

For the Community

• To strengthen support for their scholar and enhance its own commitment by jointly working with and availing of the services of the scholar.
• To augment the delivery of health services in the community.

Multiple Levels of Exit and the Mechanism for Lateral Entry

• A student may exit from any level of the curriculum and return to the community as a functional health worker. Thus a graduate could exit as a Community Health Worker (Midwife), a Nurse or Nurse Practitioner or a Medical practitioner.
• After a period of serving the community, a graduate can be readmitted to the next level of the curriculum subject to community need and endorsement, and the student’s performance in the previous level.
• Should there be a need for health worker with advance skills in their community, graduates who have been serving as health workers for quite sometime already, may be readmitted to the next level of the curriculum, subject to re-endorsement of the community or their sending agency.

Partnership with Linked Agencies and Communities in the Development of Health Human Resources.

• Involvement of DOH, DILG and LGU’s in the recruitment of scholars;
• Endorsement is required for the scholar’s admission and progress to higher levels;
• University, linked agencies and LGU’s share the responsibility of providing financial support for scholars.
• Shared supervision of the students during service leave between the school, linked agencies and local community leaders.
• The school’s part-time lecturers come mainly from the DOH. Service people as mentors are envisioned to broaden the student’s theoretical and academic perspectives with their realistic “first hand” experiences.
• The service facilities of the Department of Health and the Local Health Unit’s health centers serve as the main training facilities for the students’ field experiences.

Democratized Admission

• Policies on recruitment and admissions de-emphasize past academic performance and passing the UPCAT. Instead, admission is based on community need and the scholar’s willingness and commitment for community service.
• The school has adopted the qualitative grading system of “Passed” (P) and “Needs Tutorials” to ensure the development of required competencies rather than competing for grades.

Return Service Requirement

• Sponsoring communities are committed to employ their scholars after graduation,
• Scholars are required a return service obligation of 2 years of service for every year of study which ensures the availability of health workers specially in underserved areas.

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News and updates, dost-pchrd, upcm welcomes 13th batch of scholars in the md-phd in molecular medicine program.

Eight new scholars formally join the MD-PhD in Molecular Medicine program through a memorandum of agreement signing ceremony last 23 August 2022 held at the UP Manila Dormitory (and streamed via Zoom). The group is the 13 th batch of scholars under the program since its inception in 2010.  

The MD-PhD in Molecular Medicine scholarship is an eight-year program implemented by the Department of Science and Technology- Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) in partnership with the University of the Philippines College of Medicine (UPCM). It was designed to build a local pool of physician-scientists with expertise in biomedical research to advance healthcare in the country.

On its 12 th year of implementation, the program welcomed the following scholars:

•   Jirov A. Advincula (University of the Philippines Manila)
•   Mary Ann F. Cabrera (University of the Philippines Manila)
•   Sean Philippe L. Chua (University of the Philippines Diliman)
•   Claire Abigail A. Collantes (University of the Philippines Manila)
•   Von Novi O. De Leon (University of Santo Tomas)
•   Khevin Jade B. Gumaru (University of the Philippines Manila)
•   Harley M. Rodriguez (University of Eastern Philippines, Catarman Northern Samar)
•   Fred Lawrence D. Samante (St. Scholastica’s College, Tacloban, Leyte)

The scholarship covers tuition and other school fees, book allowance, transportation allowance, monthly stipend, insurance coverage, and thesis grants. They may also avail of the Student Research Support Fund for the conduct and dissemination of research outputs.  Other activities that may be supported upon approval of the DOST-PCHRD and UPM are presentations in international research conferences/fora, journal publications, and participation in the DOST-PCHRD’s Research Enrichment Program and DOST Summer Immersion Program.

DOST-PCHRD Executive Director Dr. Jaime Montoya shared his insights on how the MD-PhD program can benefit Filipinos. “I believe that this program is an initiative that we can leverage to strengthen our health systems and make us better prepared for future health challenges,” said Dr. Montoya. He also cited the MD-PhD Colloquium held in May 2022 as a proof of the program’s contributions in generating significant research-based health solutions for Filipinos. In the activity, ongoing scholars presented their research studies conducted under the program.

Similarly, DOST Secretary Dr. Renato Solidum, Jr. also looks forward to positive outcomes for the program, “With major health R&D initiatives such as the establishment of the Virology and Vaccine of the Philippines on the way, I am certain of a fruitful journey ahead of you,” he said.

To date, the program has produced 26 graduates, with 71 ongoing scholars.

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Jose B. Nevado Jr, MD, PhD

PhD Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (UP Diliman); MD (UP Manila)

Areas of Current Research : Gene expression and network analyses; Translational medicine on diagnostics and drug discovery

The advocacy of Dr. Jose Nevado can be summarized into a few distinct agenda. First, he focuses on topics that are of immense clinical and public health relevance, that is, the most common medical conditions of our community. These will include infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and asthma. His interest in adult diseases stems from his training as an internist in the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital. Second, he is passionate in investigations involving elucidation of mechanisms of diseases using relevant and modern technology. With his training in translational medicine in cardiovascular disorders the Translational Medicine Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of (NHLBI) the US National Institutes of Health and the Institute of Human Genetics in the National Institutes of Health in the Philippines, he was exposed to the use of high-end facilities for genomics, transcriptomics, protein research, microscopy and bioinformatics. Through these methods, he intends to discover therapeutic targets, diagnostic markers and prognostic indicators that could be eventually useful for healthcare applications. In all of these, and mindful of the socioeconomic context of healthcare in the Philippines, he remains conscious of the need of cost-effective strategies that are applicable in the country. Third, he strongly advocates translational approaches in biomedical research discovery. He has been adept at using animal models following good laboratory practices, and he prefers that preclinical finding be pursued further towards clinical studies once a high likelihood of useful application is presumed. Fourth, he supports the need to educate people to establish interest and impress the need for biomedical research. He is an active affiliate professor and adviser of several medical students and graduate students of the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines. Lastly, he really believes that research can generate intellectual property portfolio, which should be used to generate technological and economic benefits that will develop the worldwide community. He is a certified patent agent, passing the Patent Agent Qualifying Examinations last 2013. For his own, he applied for 2 patents as an inventor – one on the use of chicken antibodies for the detection of dengue1, and another on the use of a host protein for the prognostication of septic patients.

In line with his advocacies, Dr. Nevado had been involved in various researches. His study on patients with unstable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction has been cited in the ACC/AHA guidelines as an evidence for the lack of basis of the use of folic acid in these patients.2 Further studies on the same patients shows the possible impact of blood homocysteine levels as a predictor of adverse clinical outcomes on the condition.3 His research work with the Translational Medicine Laboratory of Dr. Manfred Boehm in NHLBI on epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) on vascular injury has been well cited.4 The findings that a significant portion of occluding cells during vascular repair emanates from endothelial cells that transitioned into smooth-muscle like cells, which has less optimal function.

Presently, Dr, Nevado is involved in several researches. He is the project leader on studies involving gene expression studies on complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus, on prognosticators of leptospirosis and sepsis, and the use of short interfering RNA on myocardial regeneration after a heart attack. He is also involved in studies on the genomics of cardiovascular dieases, type 2 diabetes mellitus and asthma. He is hopeful that these studies can lead to an in-depth understanding of these diseases and generate helpful clinical uses.

For more of Dr. Nevado’s publications, visit: https://scholar.google.com.ph/citations?user=fzb5PZkAAAAJ&hl=en

CITED REFERENCES

[1] PH2013000059. YU, Grace B.; BITENG, Eunice V.; LEAÑO, Milagros B.; CAOILI, Salvador C.; NEVADO, Jose Jr. B.; ESTACIO, Rhodora C. Diagnosis and detection of dengue virus infection using chicken egg antibodies. Feb 15 2013 [2] Imasa MS, Gomez,NT, Nevado JB,. Folate intervention in non-ST coronary syndromes. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2009 Jan;17(1):13-21. [3] Nevado JB, Imasa MS. Homocysteine predicts adverse clinical outcomes in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes. Coron Artery Dis. 2008 May;19(3):153-61. [4] Cooley BC, Nevado J, Mellad J, Yang D, St Hilaire C, Negro A, Fang F, Chen G, San H, Walts AD, Schwartzbeck RL, Taylor B, Lanzer JD, Wragg A, Elagha A, Beltran LE, Berry C, Feil R, Virmani R, Ladich E, Kovacic JC, Boehm M. TGF-β signaling mediates endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) during vein graft remodeling. Sci Transl Med. 2014 Mar 12;6(227):227ra34. PhD Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (UP Diliman); MD (UP Manila)

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In the nation’s m.d.-ph.d. programs, the socioeconomic gap widens.

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A new Yale study finds that M.D.-Ph.D. programs in the United States have become less socioeconomically diverse in recent years. Between 2014 and 2019, applicants from families with higher household incomes were accepted at increasingly higher rates, a trend not found among other income brackets.

The findings, which the researchers say have implications for biomedical innovation and equitable health care, were reported March 12 in JAMA Network Open.

Diversity in medicine has wide-reaching benefits, said Mytien Nguyen, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study. “We know that diversity in the medical field leads to more effective and equitable health care for patients,” she said. “And the different perspectives that diversity brings also boosts biomedical innovation and productivity.”

Achieving greater diversity in the programs that train physician-scientists, therefore, is particularly important since these individuals conduct research and treat patients, playing a pivotal role in translating research into health care.

To assess socioeconomic diversity in M.D.-Ph.D. programs, the researchers used data from the Association of American Medical Colleges, looking at applicants’ acceptance rates between 2014 and 2019 and their reported household incomes. They found that pools of both applicants and accepted students became less socioeconomically diverse over that five-year period.

First, fewer prospective students from low-income families applied to M.D.-Ph.D. programs over the study period, the researchers found. Between 2014 and 2019, the percentage of applicants reporting less than $50,000 in household income decreased from 28.4% to 25.1%.

Throughout the same time period, individuals from affluent families made up a greater proportion of accepted students. In 2014, 16.1% of applicants accepted into at least one M.D.-Ph.D. program came from households that reported more than $200,000 in income, a rate that steadily increased to 20.9% in 2019.

Across all years assessed, 29.9% of applicants with incomes under $50,000 were accepted in M.D.-Ph.D. programs. That rate rose steadily across higher income brackets, peaking at 50.3% for applicants with incomes greater than $200,000.

“ And everything else being equal, including test scores and number of publications, applicants from the lowest income tier were 16% less likely than their affluent peers to be accepted into an M.D.-Ph.D. program,” said Nguyen.

This finding in particular, said the researchers, suggests M.D.-Ph.D. programs may be evaluating applicants based on characteristics associated with privilege rather than merit, such as attending a prestigious undergraduate institution or the status of the person who writes the applicants’ recommendations.

In a previous study, the researchers found similar trends across U.S. medical schools. Together, they said, these findings speak to a significant socioeconomic disparity in terms of the pathway into the medical field.

“ But this is an aspect amenable to intervention,” said Nguyen.

To boost socioeconomic equity, programs should consider more holistic measures of capability in addition to traditional academic accomplishments, the researchers said. This could include criteria that evaluate qualities like grit and resilience. Programs should also not penalize low-income applicants for activities that might be more necessary for them than those with greater financial resources, such as having jobs rather than research positions, they added.

And programs should be cognizant of the socioeconomic diversity of the applicants to whom they offer interviews and of their incoming class.

“ When we see this almost dose-dependent association between program acceptance and income, it suggests that whatever measures programs are using are heavily influenced by privilege,” said senior author Dr. Dowin Boatright, who is currently vice chair of research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at New York University Grossman School of Medicine but began this research while an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine. “Directors should try to figure out what criteria are most associated with being a great scientist and a great physician, which hopefully wouldn’t be just socioeconomic status.”

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