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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
ROJoson's operational concept of COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
As an academic physician, ROJoson's operational concept of COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT consists primarily of not confining himself in the ivory tower of the primary formal institutions he is connected with, specifically, University of the Philippines College of Medicine (UPCM) and Philippine General Hospital (PGH). He has to reach out to the institutions outside UPCM and PGH needing educational assistance.
Secondarily, his operational concept of COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT consists of promoting community health (inclusive of and not just individual and family health) with the end-goal of HEALTH FOR ALL FILIPINOS.
ROJoson has distinguished himself in doing outreach health educational programs outside UPCM and PGH. From 1989 to 2019 (30 years), ROJoson was deeply involved in community service through outreach health educational programs in the Philippines (outside UPCM-PGH).
Principally, the outreach educational programs are in medicine, surgery, hospital administration, hospital disaster preparedness program, and public health education.
The objectives are the following:
To improve surgical practice in the Philippines
To improve hospital administration in the Philippines
To improve hospital disaster preparedness program in the Philippines and Asia Pacific
To control maternal death in Zamboanga Peninsula
To promote public health education and empower patients and the Filipino people in health and how to live life in the context of health
To avoid unnecessary and unsafe health practices and medical procedures.
To promote cost-effective management of medical conditions by both physicians and patients.
Specifically, he has done at least the following:
§ DOH-UPCM Postgraduate Circuit Courses in provincial hospitals of Isabela (Ilagan), Aklan, Koronadal (South Cotobato) and Misamis Occidental (Oroquieta) [1989-1991]
§ Zamboanga City Medical Center – A General Surgery Course (1991 to 1997)
§ Tondo Medical Center – A General Surgery Course (1993 to 1995)
§ Zamboanga Medical School Foundation – Medical Curriculum and Faculty Development (1993 to 1996)
§ Bicol Christian College of Medicine – Medical Curriculum and Faculty Development (1995 to 2003)
§ Southwestern University College of Medicine – Medical Curriculum and Faculty Development (1995 – 2000)
§ Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center – A General Surgery Course (2001 to 2014)
§ University of the Philippines College of Public Health – Hospital Administration Lectures (1993 to 2018)
§ Zuellig Family Foundation – Coaching in Maternal Mortality Control Management System in Zamboanga Peninsula (2015)
§ Zamboanga City Medical Center – Earthquake Business Continuity Program (2016)
§ Ciudad Medical Zamboanga – Philippine Quality Award (2013)
§ Salubris Medical Center in Nueve Vizcaya – Quality and Safe Management System (2016-2017)
§ Online Collaborative and Interactive Learning in hospital administration, hospital quality management system, hospital disaster preparedness program (Google Sites, Wordpress.com, Facebook) [2010 to present]
§ Online Education for Health Development in the Philippines - Advocacies and Advisories; How to Live Life in the Context of Health; Medicine and Surgery; etc.
Tripod.com – started in 1989 (inactive already)
Facebook – started June 16, 2011 with at least 6000 followers as of August 2019
Wordpress.com – started May 2010
Google Sites – started circa 2011
ROJoson also has distinguished himself in promoting community health and solving community health problems with the end-goal of HEALTH FOR ALL FILIPINOS.
He has done this primarily through the community health action researches that were built into the innovative problem-based and community-based medical curriculum he designed for Zamboanga Medical School Foundation (now Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine) [Mindanao]; Bicol Christian College of Medicine (in Luzon); and Southwestern University College of Medicine (in the Visayas).
Examples of completed community health action researches done by medical students in Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine are shown below:
In 2015, through partnership with Zuellig Family Foundation, he coached the staff of Zamboanga City Medical Center, Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center, Zamboanga del Norte Medical Center, and Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Hospital in controlling the maternal death rate in Zamboanga Peninsula.
On November 7, 2019, Dr. Ruvelinda Uy, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Zamboanga City Medical Center gave me this report on Maternal Death Rate in Region 9 (Zamboanga Area):
See the following for details:
Supporting Documents:
Community Service Through Outreach Medical-Surgical Education Inclusive of Public Health Education
Community Service Through Outreach Medical-Surgical Education Inclusive of Public Health Education
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