2004 / 2005 Finalist, Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Awards in Academe and Research, Philippine Medical Association
2004
Since 1981, after his graduation from his surgical residency, Dr. Reynaldo O. Joson has been living a life reflective of that of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, a community-oriented physician, a medical educator, and a health researcher who constantly strived for excellence and quality services to his community, patients, and students in the Philippines.
As a community-oriented physician, he worked in government hospitals (Philippine General Hospital and Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center) to cater to the needs of the indigent Filipino patients. He conducted and facilitated educational training programs to physicians in government hospitals in Luzon, in the Visayas, and in Mindanao. He created a surgeon-to-surgeonless community program with a diploma in general surgery and health profession education. He promoted an innovative medical curriculum, specifically a community-based and problem-based learning curriculum in medical schools in Luzon (Bicol Christian College of Medicine), in the Visayas (Southwestern University College of Medicine), and in Mindanao (Zamboanga Medical School Foundation). He conducted researches that promoted cost-effective management for the Filipino patients and that led to advocacies against unnecessary operations, procedures, and health practices, such as no to routine circumcision, no to routine mammography, no to unnecessary normal appendectomy, no to unnecessary fibrocystic breast operations, and beware of santol seed swallowing.
As a medical educator, he pioneered innovative medical education in the Philippines, specifically on problem-based learning and distance and online education in medicine and surgery. He has more than 20 educational websites in the Internet. He established and developed the first Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Surgical Oncology Fellowship Programs in the Philippines. In the 2004 Asia-Pacific Conference on Problem-based Learning in Health Sciences held from September 22-24, 2004, he presented 19 papers that covered innovative teaching-learning activities, evaluation and educational management strategies. Last October 7, 2004, he received the 2004 Asia Hospital Management Award for his project in human resource development in the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, the first government hospital ever to win such an international award.
As a researcher, from 1976 to present, he has more than 90 scientific papers; more than 80 scientific books, primers, and course packs; 43 published papers with 4 international publications; and 14 research awards. He has been doing researches not only in clinical medicine, but also in hospital administration and health profession education. He pioneered action researches in medicine and health-process-evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in the Philippines to make researches and guidelines useful and relevant in solving the country’s health problems.
As a clinician, he has been an advocate of quality and holistic patient care. He has been the chairperson of the Quality Council of Manila Doctors Hospital since 1998. He pioneered patient support group in the Philippines through the Philippine Stoma Association in 1979 and the MDH-Cancer Crusaders Club in 1988 (the longest existing cancer support group in the Philippines).
As an administrator, he is pioneering balanced scorecard in hospitals and clinical departments in the Philippines. As chairperson of the Department of Surgery of the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, in 3 years’ time, he was able to transform a dying department into a model department of surgery in the Philippines, one with international recognition, as attested by the 17 educational papers presented in the 2004 Asia-Pacific Conference in Problem-based Learning and winning the 2004 Asia Hospital Management Award, the only Philippine hospital that won the prestigious award in 2004 and a city-government hospital at that.
2005
Since 1981, after his graduation from his surgical residency, Dr. Reynaldo O. Joson has been living a life reflective of that of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, a community-oriented physician, a medical educator, and a health researcher who constantly strived for excellence and quality services to his community, patients, and students in the Philippines.
As a community-oriented physician, he worked in government hospitals (Philippine General Hospital and Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center) to cater to the needs of the indigent Filipino patients. He conducted and facilitated educational training programs to physicians in government hospitals in Luzon, in the Visayas, and in Mindanao. He created a surgeon-to-surgeon-less community program with a diploma in general surgery and health profession education. He promoted an innovative medical curriculum, specifically a community-based and problem-based learning curriculum in medical schools in Luzon (Bicol Christian College of Medicine), in the Visayas (Southwestern University College of Medicine), and in Mindanao (Zamboanga Medical School Foundation). He conducted researches that promoted cost-effective management for the Filipino patients and that led to advocacies against unnecessary operations, procedures, and health practices, such as no to routine circumcision, no to routine mammography, no to unnecessary normal appendectomy, no to unnecessary fibrocystic breast operations, and beware of santol seed swallowing.
As a medical educator, he pioneered innovative medical education in the Philippines, specifically on problem-based learning and distance and online education in medicine and surgery. He has more than 20 educational websites in the Internet. He established and developed the first Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Surgical Oncology Fellowship Programs in the Philippines. In the 2004 Asia-Pacific Conference on Problem-based Learning in Health Sciences held from September 22-24, 2004, he had 19 papers presented that covered innovative teaching-learning activities, evaluation and educational management strategies. On October 7, 2004, he received the 2004 Asian Hospital Management Award for his project in human resource development in the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, the first government hospital ever to win such an international award. On September 9, 2005, he will receive the 2005 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility (runner-up) Award for his project “Conducive Practice Program for Surgical Residents of the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center.”
As a researcher, from 1976 to present, he has more than 90 scientific papers; more than 80 scientific books, primers, and course packs; 44 published papers with 4 international publications; and 16 research awards. He has been doing researches not only in clinical medicine, but also in hospital administration and health profession education. He pioneered action researches in medicine and health-process-evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in the Philippines to make researches and guidelines useful and relevant in solving the country’s health problems.
In 2004, he was one of the five finalists in the 14th Dr. J. P. Rizal Memorial Awards for Academe and Research.
As a clinician, he has been an advocate of quality and holistic patient care. He has been the chairperson of the Quality Council of Manila Doctors Hospital since 1998. He pioneered patient support group in the Philippines through the Philippine Stoma Association in 1979 and the MDH-Cancer Crusaders Club in 1988 (the longest existing cancer support group in the Philippines).
As an administrator, he is pioneering balanced scorecard in hospitals and clinical departments in the Philippines. As chairperson of the Department of Surgery of the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, in 4 years’ time, he was able to transform it into a model department of surgery in the Philippines, one with international recognition, as attested by the 17 educational papers presented in the 2004 Asia-Pacific Conference in Problem-based Learning and winning the 2004 Asian Hospital Management Award and the 2005 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility Award. Under his stewardship, in February, 2005, the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center got an Anvil Award for its wholistic social responsibility program.
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