EXCELLENCE IN OTHER FIELDS OF ENDEAVOR
As mentioned above, ROJoson has devoted and focused 40 years of his professional life after graduation from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in 1974 to the following medical endeavors which all redound to better health care delivery services not only to his patients and institutions he is connected with but to patients and institutions at large (in the Philippines):
· Medical-surgical education
· Patient-centered care management
· Community service through outreach medical-surgical education inclusive of public health education
· Health action research
· Hospital administration and quality management system
· Hospital disaster preparedness program
All the abovementioned focused medical endeavors are considered his flagship projects under a program he dubbed in 1989 as Education for Health Development in the Philippines (EdHeDePhi). The EdHeDePhi has one central theme: using EDUCATION as the primary tool for improving the health care services in the Philippines.
NOTE: The focus of the Philippine Medical Association Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Award in the ACADEME CATEGORY is medical-surgical education, which was expounded above in ACADEME INVOLVEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING. Community service through outreach medical-surgical education inclusive of public health education has been expounded in COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.
Thus, the “EXCELLENCE IN OTHER FIELDS OF ENDEAVOR” would cover the other medical endeavors of ROJoson, namely:
· Health action research
· Patient-centered care management
· Hospital administration and quality management system
· Hospital disaster preparedness program
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