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This site is being / has been created to contain all the documents on ROJoson's nomination for 29th Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Awards of the Philippine Medical Association (2020) - ACADEME CATEGORY.

Date of site creation: November 8, 2019.

CATEGORY CRITERIA & RATING GUIDE

ACADEME CATEGORY

ROJoson will be endorsed by the Manila Medical Society of which he is a member.

Jed Golez will be assisting me in submitting the nomination requirements.

Jed Golez is a Mu SIgma Phi Fraternity Brod in the UP College of Medicine.

ROJoson was a finalist in the Category Academe and Research in 2004 and 2005.

Hopefully, he will be a winner in 2020.

ROJoson's Personal Notes (19nov8):

Even if I don't win the 2020 PMA Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Award for Academe, even at this stage prior to judging (judging will still be in February 2020), I feel fully contented already. One, filling up the nomination form serves as a self-evaluation of the contribution that I have done as a physician in the Philippines. Second, the things that I placed in the nomination form serve as my legacy as a physician to the Filipino people. I am proud and contented with what I have done already.

I feel I have lived a life reflective of that of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, a COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PHYSICIAN, a 5-STAR PHYSICIAN (MD-Clinician; MD-Community Health Problem Solver; MD-Educator; MD-Researcher; and MD-Manager) and a HOLISTIC PHYSICIAN-EDUCATOR (medical healer cum life coach in intentional living in the context of health). I have constantly strove for excellence and quality services to my community, patients, and students in the Philippines. I have been using BLENDEDLEARNING through my Education for Health Development in the Philippines program as the primary tool for improving the health of the Filipino people and the health care services in the Philippines.

AS A COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PHYSICIAN, I have subscribed and have been contributing to the HEALTH FOR ALL FILIPINOS movement, which formally started when I created my Education for Health Development in the Philippines program in 1989. Through my outreach health educational programs, I have helped medical schools through their students and faculty; hospitals through their staff and managers; hospital administration schools and societies through their students, faculty and members; and the Filipino citizenry through my blogs and social media in providing community-oriented quality health service delivery programs (for the health care providers) and patient empowerment program (for the Filipino citizenry).

AS A 5-STAR PHYSICIAN, I have integrated the following 5 expected roles and competencies of a holistic physician from the time I became a faculty of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in 1985 up to present (2019):

• • MD-Clinician

  • MD-Community Health Problem Solver

  • MD-Educator

  • MD-Researcher

  • MD-Manager

AS A HOLISTIC PHYSICIAN-EDUCATOR, I have been serving as a LIFE COACH on top of being a physician-healer since 1994. Knowing there is a limitation in the lifespan of people on earth and knowing there is a limitation to what a physician can do, I have been teaching the Filipino people, particularly my patients, on INTENTIONAL LIVING. I just don't treat patients medically. I also coach them on how to live life in the context of health. I operationally define INTENTIONAL LIVING as "a plan you make targeting a certain number of years in which you write down things you intend or want to accomplish on your graduation day (last day of your targeted year) which will make you feel you have lived your life to the fullest; you have lived a meaningful life; and you are contented and ready to die a happy death. [Assumption and reality: all of us will die one day.]"

There is another aspect in my life that I see myself living a life reflective of that of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. I am a Chinese national (pure, born of Chinese parents, in 1949) who became a Filipino by naturalization in 1976.

When I was in the University of the Philippines Diliman taking my BS Pre-Medical Course, I was advocating for the integration of the Chinese into the Filipino society through the UP Filipino-Chinese Students Association (I was its President in 1968-1969) and through the Sapang Palay Project of the Philippine Historical Commission (which was promoting the Chinese integration). Aligned with my above advocacy, I changed my Chinese surname of "DY" to a Filipino family name "JOSON" after my naturalization process. Aligned with my advocacy also, I married a Filipina to complete the Chinese-Filipino integration. This backstory of my racial origin and assimilation and integration into the Filipino society approximates the life of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. Dr. Rizal was a Chinese mestizo who functioned as a Filipino working for the Filipino nation and people. I am a pure Chinese who by my acts of naturalization and change of name has proclaimed my loyalty to the Philippines and as will be seen within the nomination documents, has been functioning as a Filipino working for the Filipino nation and people (especially as a Filipino physician).

August 9, 2020 - I received this in my email box.

Finalist in the Academe Catogory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UxA_-_kNI

Awarding

September 9, 2020 (VIRTUAL)

ROJ@19nov8;19nov17;20aug9;20sept9