ROJoson's Legacy as a Man
In 2004, I wrote this:
How do I want to be remembered after I am gone?
To my family –
Good husband –
Responsible
Loving
Faithful
Provide material needs
Provide emotional needs
Support wife’s emotional needs
Promote wife as a human being (rights)
Good father –
Responsible father
Provide
Support
Promote children as human beings
Provide companionship
Serve as a role model
Good man –
Man for family
Man for others
To my acquaintances –
Good man
Man for family
Responsible father
Provide
Support
Promote children as human beings
Provide companionship
Serve as role model
Man for others
Vision-mission
For himself
For his family
For his community
What would I do in my life that is significant?
Education for health development in the Philippines (contribution)
How do I want to live my life if given the choice?
Same – hopefully happier up to the end.
What do I really want out of life?
Happy – satisfied
In doing what I can do and in what I like to do
How do I remain positive in a world that is dominated by negativity?
Acceptance of reality
Continue to do what I can do and what I like to do
In a rapidly changing world, how do I influence the direction of my life?
Analyze the situation
Think what I should be doing to survive
Plan for it
Do it
What do I do to look up?
Continue to analyze the situation
Find new direction
Find new opportunity
To survive
How do I make a difference in the lives of my family, friends, and colleagues?
Respect
Responsible
How do I contribute to the betterment of the society?
Be a responsible member
Contribute my skills
Education for health development in the Philippines
What values people I admire?
Respected
Responsible
Today, November 26, 2018, 14 years after from 2004, as I looked back at what I wrote, I affirm and validate what I wrote of myself, my vision and mission for myself as a man.
Above summarizes my legacy as a man.
Since I have identified my legacy as a husband, as a father, as a teacher, and as a physician in other documents, focusing on my legacy as a man here, as mentioned above, my legacies are: RESPECTED AND MAN FOR OTHERS.
RESPECTED - I have been respected by other people, at least the majority of my acquaintances - colleagues, classmates and friends and patients - because of my professionalism, ethics, work habits, etc.
Supporting evidences: Lifted from Professional Career Data from my Curriculum Vitae (2018):
Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of the Philippines College of Medicine (1974)
Rotating Internship, Philippine General Hospital (1975)
Philippine Board of Medicine (1975)
Residency in General Surgery, Philippine General Hospital (1981)
Diplomate, Philippine Board of Surgery (1981)
Fellow, Philippine College of Surgeons (1982)
Examiner, Philippine Board of Surgery (1984 to 1997)
Mammadi Soudavar Memorial Fellowship (Traveling Fellowship for Study in Cancer Centers, USA, Canada, Hong Kong) – July to December, 1984)
Faculty, UP College of Medicine (1985 -2014) [Post-retirement Clinical Professor in Surgery – 2014 -2018 -]
Retired Professor V, University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Department of Surgery (2014)
Chairman, Year Level 7 Committee (1988)
Faculty, UPCM Medical Education Unit (1992 – 2014)
Chairman, Committee on Graduate Program, Department of Surgery, UP College of Medicine (2004 – 2014)
Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Public Health (1993-2005, 2008 – 2016 - )
Chief, Division of Head and Neck, Breast, Esophagus, and Soft Tissue Surgery,
Department of Surgery, Philippine General Hospital (July 13, 1994 - 2000) (Acting Chief – 1992 –
1994)
Chairperson, Department of Surgery, Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (2001 – July 11, 2009; 2014)
Chairman Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (2010 – 2016 - )
Training Officer, Department of Surgery, Manila Doctors Hospital (1985 to 1987)
Assistant Medical Director, Manila Doctors Hospital (1989 – 2009)
Director, Manila Doctors Hospital Emergency Room (1991 - ?)
Head, Industrial Medical Services Department, Manila Doctors Hospital (1993 – 1995)
Head, Corporate Planning Office, Manila Doctors Hospital (2005 – 2009)
Quality Management Representative, Manila Doctors Hospital (2005 – 2009)
Coordinator, Manila Doctors Hospital Balanced Scorecard (2004 – 2009)
Senior Vice-President for Corporate Affairs, Manila Doctors Hospital (April, 2009 – 2014)
Board of Advisers, Manila Medical Services Inc. (January 2016 – 2018)
Member, Audit Committee of the Manila Medical Services Inc. (2017 – 2018)
Adviser, Executive Committee, Manila Doctors Hospital (2014 – 2018)
Consultant, Department of Surgery
Manila Doctors Hospital
Medical Center Manila
Philippine General Hospital
Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center
Special Fields of Interest in Medicine
Medical Education; Academic Surgery
Surgical Oncology: Head and neck, thyroid, breast, gastrointestinal, skin and soft
tissue tumors
Director, Cancer Crusaders Club (1988 – 2002)
Adviser, Cancer Crusaders Club (2002 – 2018 - )
Master in Hospital Administration (MHA), UP College of Public Health (1991)
Master in Health Profession Education (MHPEd), UP National Teachers Training Center for
Health Profession (1993)
Master of Science in General Surgery (MS Surg), UP College of Medicine (1998)
Director, UP Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (1989-1991)
Director, A General Surgery Course
Zamboanga City Medical Center (1991-1997)
Tondo Medical Center (1993-1995)
Educational Consultant
Zamboanga Medical School Foundation (1993-1996)
Bicol Christian College of Medicine (1995 - 2003)
Southwestern University College of Medicine (1995 - 2000)
Consultant, Ciudad Medical Zamboanga (2013 – 2014)
Program Director, Education for Health Development in the Philippines (1989 – 2018 - )
Program Director, Online Collaborative and Interactive Learning Courses on Hospital Administration (2010 – 2018 - )
http://rojosonocilonhospitaladministration.wordpress.com/
Writer-Contributor, Xavier Alumni Times (2003-2005)
Project Director, Medical Anecdotal Reports, Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center Department of Surgery (2004 - ) http://omsurg-mar.tripod.com, http://medicalanecdotalreports.wordpress.com, http://ommcsurgerymar2012.wordpress.com, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Medical-Anecdotal-Reports/285148858182710
Medical Anecdotal Reports – Volume 1 published in 2013; Volume 2 published in 2014; Online publication 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 -
Author - Published papers =50 (4 - international; 47 – local);(9 – from 2000 to October, 2006); research awards >16 (1976 – October, 2006) [Last updating: February 2015]
Author- Scientific Papers > 100; Scientific Books/Primers/Course Packs > 80 (Last updating: December 2012] – {to continually update as the statistics are constantly changing}
Author – Websites [https://sites.google.com/site/rojosonwebsites] = 207 [as of December 26, 2013] – {to continually update as the statistics are constantly changing}
University of the Philippine Medical Alumni Society’s 2003 Outstanding Educator Awardee (December, 2003)
University of the Philippine Alumni Association’s 2004 Professional Awardee in Medicine (June, 2004)
University of the Philippines Alumni Association Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Awardee (2015)
Awardee, Lino Ed Lim Award for the Most Outstanding Medical Teacher in the Clinical Sciences, University of the Philippines College of Medicine, 2004-2005 (November 16, 2004)
Finalist, Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Awards in Academe and Research, Philippine Medical Association (November 26, 2004 and October, 2005)
Winner, 2004 Asian Hospital Management Awards, Knowledge Management System of the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (October 7, 2004)
Winner, 2005 Anvil Award, Wholistic Corporate Social Responsibility Program of Department of Surgery, Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center , February, 2005
Runner-up, 2005 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility Awards, Conducive Practice Program of the Department of Surgery, Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (September 9, 2005)
Most Outstanding Teacher in Oncology, Philippine Society of Oncology (October, 2006) Faculty Achiever Award, University of the Philippines College of Medicine, November 21, 2006 (Most Outstanding Teacher in Oncology, Philippine Society of Oncology, October, 2006)
Module Writer and Facilitator - Hospital Emergency Response Plan – Module for WHO – WPRO Regional Training Course for Mass Casualty Management and Hospital Preparedness – 2007 (September 24-28, 2007, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
Centennial Professorial Chair, University of the Philippines Manila (2008)
Module Writer and Facilitator - Hospital Emergency Response Plan – Module for WHO – WPRO Regional Training Course for Mass Casualty Management and Hospital Preparedness – 2008 (November 24-28, 2008, Vientiane, Laos)
Module Writer – Training on Safe Hospitals in Disasters – Module for WHO – WPRO Regional Training Course for Safe Hospitals in Disasters – 2009 (February 2-4, 2009)
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Quality Assurance and Patient Safety, Philippine College of Surgeons (2008-2009)
Designer and Facilitator, Online Collaborative Interactive Learning on Admitting Service, (June 1, 2010 – May 31, 2011)
Designer and Facilitator, Online Collaborative Interactive Learning on Breast Wellness Center, (August 16, 2010 - 2011)
Facilitator – WHO-WPRO Training in Hospital and Health Facility Emergency Exercises, Hanoi, Vietnam, August 22-26, 2011
2013 Xavier-Kuangchi Exemplary Alumni Awardee
Consultant, Ciudad Medical Zamboanga Philippine Quality Award, 2013
Module Writer and Facilitator – National Training on Safe Hospitals in Sri Lanka – September 22 – 24, 2014)
Facilitator, Strategic Planning Conference, Fe del Mundo Medical Center – November 2014
Consultant, Sri Lanka Safe Hospitals Initiative Strategic Plan, WHO SEARO, October 5 to 19, 2015
Consultant, WHO-DOH Earthquake Business Continuity Plan, November 27, 2015 to December 15, 2015
MDH Exemplar Award, December 8, 2015
Coach, Zuellig Family Foundation (February 2015 to December 2015); 2016; 2017
Consultant, Salubris Medical Center (2016 – 2017)
Consultant, Zamboanga City Medical Center Earthquake Business Continuity Program (2016)
16th Alfredo T. Ramirez Memorial Lecturer, UP-PGH Department of Surgery, September 7, 2016
Resource Person, World Health Organization, Western Pacific Region (2007 – 2015)
Chair, Audit Committee of the Manila Medical Services Inc. (2015 – 2017)
See also: https://rojosonandxavierschool.wordpress.com/the-xaverian-ideal-as-embodied-by-dr-rey/
MAN FOR OTHERS - Being “man for others” means that I am predisposed to help other people, particularly those in need. I am a graduate of Xavier School and this school inculcated in me the spirit of "man for others." In 2013, I received the Xavier-Kuang Chi Exemplary Award for excelling in the field of medicine and who used talents and resources in the service of society, thus embodying to an outstanding degree the Xavier Ideal of being "men for others."
See: https://rojosonandxavierschool.wordpress.com/the-xaverian-ideal-as-embodied-by-dr-rey/
References
https://rojosonandxavierschool.wordpress.com/the-xaverian-ideal-as-embodied-by-dr-rey/
ADDENDUM:
As a man also, I want to be remembered as a person who is SYSTEMATIC, DISCIPLINED, and PERSEVERANT in doing things on earth.
These qualities can be seen from the legacies that I have presented (see list of legacies and description of legacies on the sidebar).
ROJ@18nov26;18dec15