Executive Summary
Since 1975, after graduating from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital up to the present (2019), Dr. Reynaldo O. Joson has been living 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). He has constantly strove for excellence and quality professional services to his community, patients, and students in the Philippines.
AS A COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PHYSICIAN, he has subscribed and has been contributing to the HEALTH FOR ALL FILIPINOS movement, which formally started when he created his Education for Health Development in the Philippines program in 1989. Through his outreach health educational programs, he has 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 his 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, he has integrated the following 5 expected roles and competencies of a holistic physician from the time he 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, he has 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, he has been teaching the Filipino people, particularly his patients, on INTENTIONAL LIVING. He just don't treat patients medically. He also coaches them on how to live life in the context of health. He 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.]"
In November 2019, Dr. ROJoson made a summative evaluation of his EdHeDePhi Program of 30 years using the original blueprint as basis. The details can be seen in https://rojosonedhedephi.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/edhedephi-evaluation-2019/
There is another aspect in his life that he sees himself living a life reflective of that of Dr. Jose P. Rizal. He is a Chinese national (pure, born of Chinese parents, in 1949) who became a Filipino by naturalization in 1976.
When he was in the University of the Philippines Diliman taking my BS Pre-Medical Course, he was advocating for the integration of the Chinese into the Filipino society through the UP Filipino-Chinese Students Association (he 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 his above advocacy, he changed his Chinese surname of "DY" to a Filipino family name "JOSON" after his naturalization process. Aligned with his advocacy also, he married a Filipina to complete the Chinese-Filipino integration. This backstory of his 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. He is a pure Chinese who by his acts of naturalization and change of name has proclaimed his 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).
ACADEME INVOLVEMENT
ROJoson's operational concepts of ACADEME INVOLVEMENT:
Being a teacher and educator in formal institutions and in his personal capacity (outreach educational programs).
Being a teacher and educator:
not only in medical schools and also in non-medical schools (particularly hospitals)
not only for medical students but also for medical teachers
not only in surgery but also in hospital administration and quality management system and hospital disaster preparedness programs
not only for health professionals but also for the public (lay people)
ROJoson has distinguished himself as a teacher and educator in the formal institutions he has been connected starting 1982 (37 years):
University of the Philippines College of Medicine
Philippine General Hospital
Zamboanga Medical School Foundation now Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine
Bicol Christian College of Medicine
Southwestern University College of Medicine
Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center
Manila Doctors Hospital
University of the Philippines College of Public Health
World Health Organization – Western Pacific Region
Zuellig Family Foundation
ROJoson has also distinguished himself as a teacher and educator in his personal capacity (outreach educational program) starting 1989 (30 years) through his Education for Health Development in the Philippines Program, particularly on the following domains:
Health Professional Education
Public Health Education
Online Collaborative and Interactive Learning Program
Intentional Living Program
Patient Empowerment Program
ROJoson has been recognized as a well-rounded academic physician (HOLISTIC EDUCATOR) through the following awards and honors:
2019 University of the Philippine College of Medicine Alumni Society Distinguished Alumnus Award
2019 Recognition of his pioneering contribution to the Zamboanga Medical School Foundation (now Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine)
2015 University of the Philippines Alumni Society Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Awardee
Exemplar Award, Manila Doctors Hospital, 2015
2013 Xavier-Kuangchi Exemplary Alumni Award
University of the Philippine Manila Centennial Professorial Chair Award in 2008
2006 Philippine Society of Oncology Most Outstanding Teacher in Oncology
Finalist in Academe and Research, Philippine Medical Association Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Awards, 2004 and 2005
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)
Winner, 2004 Asian Hospital Management Awards, Knowledge Management System of the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (October 7, 2004)
2004 University of the Philippines Alumni Society Professional Awardee in Medicine
2004 Lino Ed Lim Award for the Most Outstanding Medical Teacher in Clinical Sciences, University of the Philippines College of Medicine
2003 University of the Philippine College of Medicine Alumni Society Outstanding Educator Award
1986 Department of Surgery Philippine General Hospital Hall of Fame Award for Surgical Consultant
As a teacher and educator, he has:
Delivered lectures and talks in more than 300 occasions from 1976 to 2018.
Published 50 research papers [4 – international; 47 – local] as of August, 2019 (29 as primary author); with more than 16 research awards.
Written more than 100 scientific papers aside from the research publication and more than 80 scientific books, primers and course packs.
Published about 323 websites as of August 16, 2019.
Presented 19 Papers (co-authors and main authors) at the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Problem-based Learning in Health Sciences, September, 2004, Manila.
Taught medical teachers in at least two medical schools, namely, Zamboanga Medical School Foundation (now Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine) and University of the Philippines College of Medicine.
Hosted 2 Facebook Timelines with about 6000 friends as of August 16, 2019 which he has been using since June 16, 2011 as his main vehicle for his Education for Health Development in the Philippines Program and for his advocacy programs.
Been promoting at least 10 advocacies since 2001 which are related to public health promotion, rational patient management, and quality health care delivery system in hospitals and medical clinics.
ROJoson's most notable specific academic achievements consist of the following:
In University of the Philippines College of Medicine - Philippine General Hospital:
Under his leadership, he created the first Head and Neck Surgical Oncology Program (in 1990) and the first Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program (1994) in the entire Philippines.
In the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center:
Under his leadership, in 2004, he pioneered Narrative Medicine Project through the Medical Anecdotal Reports which has been promoting development of holistic, professional and compassionate surgeons among the trainees.
In the Department of Surgery of Zamboanga City Medical Center:
Under his directorship, he pioneered Distance Education in General Surgery from 1991 to 1997 which had produced 7 trained general surgeons added to the pool of 3 original trained surgeons that served the 3 million population of Western Mindanao in 1997.
In the Philippines, he can be considered as one of the pioneers of telehealth and telemedicine when he initiated and developed the Distance Education in General Surgery in 1991 and the Online Collaborative and Interactive Learning in hospital administration in 2010.
In Zamboanga Medical School Foundation (now Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine), he was the primary designer and developer of its innovative medical curriculum (problem-based, competency-based, community –based) in 1993 to 1996. In 2019, 25 years after the establishment of the school, it has produced the following outcome and impact:
Majority of graduates are practicing in the region - 80% are practicing in the underserved municipality in Western Mindanao.
Graduates are serving as municipal health officers in underserved communities in the region.
55% increase (n = 20 to 31) in the number of municipalities of Western Mindanao with a doctor, mostly graduates of the medical school.
Improved infant mortality rate in the region. The infant mortality rate in the region has decreased by approximately 90% in 2011 compared with a national change of approximately 50% in the same time period.
First medical school in the Philippines with a dual MD-MPH degree program which started in 1998; has produced 381 MD-MPH graduates as of 2018.
2nd medical school that has offered a Master in Health Profession Education in the Philippines; has produced 16 Masters in Health Profession Education from 1999 to 2018.
The medical school has a Charles Boelen International Social Accountability Award from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC).
Feedback of Dean Fortunato Cristobal on the 25th anniversary of the ZMSF/ADZU-SOM in July 2019:
“I still feel that ADZU-SOM owe much to you for setting us 25 years ahead of the rest of the medical schools in the country. What they are talking now about terminal competencies, 5-star physicians and outcome-based education, OSCE, etc, you had well articulated them in the ADZU-SOM curriculum. These cannot be erased in our history."
"Looking back your mind set was way ahead of our times by 20 years+. It is only now the other medical schools are considering seriously about terminal objectives, and about the 5-star physicians, when in fact you were the first to introduce the terms: Physician-Clinician, Physician-Manager, Physician-Researcher, Physician-Leader / Manager, and Physician-Teacher ..... You were also the first to introduce PBL, competency-based, and COME curriculum in the Philippines, not to mention assessments like OSCE."
He has received excellent feedback from the following: (See Feedback on ROJoson's Medical Endeavors)
Medical Students
Residents and Fellows
Colleagues and Friends
Medical Educators
Hospital Managers
Patients and Public
He has received excellent feedback on his following projects and advocacies: (See Feedback on ROJoson's Medical Endeavors)
Patient Management Process
Medical Anecdotal Reports
No Queueing in ROJoson Medical Clinic
ROJoson’s Facebook Project
Overall, ROJoson's most notable outcome and impact in his medical-surgical education endeavor consists of promoting the development at least if not producing rational, effective, efficient, cost-effective, compassionate and community-oriented physicians and surgeons in the Philippines. This redound to better or improvement of health care delivery services in the Philippines through the medical and surgical students that he has positively influenced.
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